Breakfast gone wrong

[MrCarrot]

I'm on vacation at the moment and this morning I had my breakfast all planned out in MyFitnessPal as follows:

1 x Sausage
1 x Hash brown
3 x Eggs
2 x Scotch pancakes with maple syrup

What I actually ended up eating:

5 x Sausages
5 x Hash browns
5 x Eggs
1 x Bubble & squeak
10 x Scotch pancakes with maple syrup and Nutella
3 x Croissants
3 x Bowls of granola

I dunno if I gained any fat, but if I did it was worth it.

I think I might skip desert tonight...












...MIGHT

[Cantplankwell]

Repped!

[ectoBgone]

Auto-regulatory re-feed FTW!

[Fatkidwholifts]

What’s the American equivalent of bubble and squeak?

[Cantplankwell]

What’s the American equivalent of bubble and squeak?

The CDN version

Anything leftover in the fridge from the previous couple of days.

[Natty1980]

What I actually ended up eating:

5 x Sausages
5 x Hash browns
5 x Eggs
1 x Bubble & squeak
10 x Scotch pancakes with maple syrup and Nutella
3 x Croissants
3 x Bowls of granola

I threw up reading this... but my puke was green so I repped you for the effort eventually.

[OldFartTom]

Repping.. just the 10 pancakes would have earned it, but you went WAY further

[Tucane]

That reminds me of when I was half my age and stuffed myself at hotel breakfasts... sometimes I couldn't leave the chair for half an hour^^

Also, repped!

[adigiro1]

I threw up reading this... but my puke was green so I repped you for the effort eventually.

"Oh it wasn't that baaad"

[Payton1221]

LOL. I just came back from a mini-vacation myself. We stopped at IHOP TWICE!!!

When I go overboard, I see no sense in getting on the scale. I did it; it happened. So I just buckle down and eat at a deficit for 3-5 days and then see if I have more to go to return me to where I was.

[Corbets]

LOL. I just came back from a mini-vacation myself. We stopped at IOHP TWICE!!!

When I go overboard, I see no sense in getting on the scale. I did it; it happened. So I just buckle down and eat at a deficit for 3-5 days and then see if I have more to go to return me to where I was.

Same. I just sort of accept that I’m going to have pancakes for breakfast on holiday, and compensate with a couple of lean days when I get back. Ideal? No. Workable, sure, and way better than being perpetually miserable.

[MrCarrot]

The lady at the hotel said, "Eat as much as you like" and that kind of set me off. Afterwards I calculated the calories to be around 4k. On the plus side, later on I did 3 sets of pull ups on the kid's climbing frame, and then went swimming, so I probably burnt off 200 calories :-/

I skipped lunch and had a chicken burger and salad for dinner (no desert).

Will go easy on food tomorrow throughout the day and then have something tasty for dinner!

[tblodg15]

Ideal? No. Workable, sure, and way better than being perpetually miserable.

I think enjoying ourselves and not being too strict all the time actually IS ideal. Just my opinion but as Carrot said in another thread we are all doing this for a hobby and none of us are entering the Mr Olympia. Sticking with it for the long term is much more important than gaining a few pounds on vacation (and worrying about it). Or maybe even worse than worrying about it might be going on vacation and not enjoying yourself and some guilt free meals with the family.

[OldFartTom]

The lady at the hotel said, "Eat as much as you like" ... ...

Hold on... she didn't say "eat as much as you can" the two are different!

... ... I did 3 sets of pull ups on the kid's climbing frame... ...

I sometimes do a set of pull-ups or chinups (obviously when the kids aren't nearby, I don't push them off or anything) on kids climbing frames, but I always feel that I'm getting disapproving stares from other parents, my kids aren't very enthusiastic about it either.

[MrCarrot]

Hold on... she didn't say "eat as much as you can" the two are different!

No, I could have easily eaten more, but I decided against it. Last time I did that, I had to walk around very, very slowly afterwards.

I sometimes do a set of pull-ups or chinups (obviously when the kids aren't nearby, I don't push them off or anything) on kids climbing frames, but I always feel that I'm getting disapproving stares from other parents, my kids aren't very enthusiastic about it either.

Haha, fortunately nobody else was around. At least you have kids though, doing pull ups on a kids playground when you don't even have kids might appear even more worrying.

I usually do them weighted, however they felt pretty heavy with all that food inside.

[tblodg15]

Afterwards I calculated the calories to be around 4k.

It’s amazing how different we all are, no way I could eat that much in one meal. You’re not a big guy right?

I just went and checked and in a year and-a-half of tracking every meal the most calories I had for an entire day was 3,359 on Christmas Day. I was just under that on Thanksgiving day and both of those were during a bulk. Those days and many others I have ate so much I felt sick but my stomach has shrunk since I started eating better and I just don’t have a huge appetite. But I am older, not a big guy, and don’t burn many calories outside of lifting and one day of cardio per week.

[KidFreeze]

I struggle just to reach 2,000 calories a day. Summertime my appetite really takes a dive. I ran 3 miles last night in 88 degrees, and lost 3 pounds. I love running but when I do it a lot I just shed the pounds too fast.

[MrCarrot]

It’s amazing how different we all are, no way I could eat that much in one meal. You’re not a big guy right?

I just went and checked and in a year and-a-half of tracking every meal the most calories I had for an entire day was 3,359 on Christmas Day. I was just under that on Thanksgiving day and both of those were during a bulk. Those days and many others I have ate so much I felt sick but my stomach has shrunk since I started eating better and I just don’t have a huge appetite. But I am older, not a big guy, and don’t burn many calories outside of lifting and one day of cardio per week.

No I'm not particularly big, not particularly small either. "Average" I guess (probably averaged around 180-190 pounds most of my life, currently 165 pounds but kind of on the small side due to low bf).

Unfortunately now more than ever I just don't get full. Unless a meal is ridiculously big and loaded with starchy carbs, I always feel like I could eat it 2 or 3 times over. Recently I've been loading my meals with huge amounts of salad and vegetables to try and fill me up but it doesn't really work. Even if I do manage to fill myself up with a big meal, I'll be hungry again an hour or two later.

I'm slowly bulking on 2,800 calories a day at the moment but could happily eat double that. What I do find with things like Chinese buffets and hotel breakfast buffets is it's really easy to quickly consume several thousand calories because it all tends to be fairly low in nutritional value and high in fat.

At the moment I'm not sure whether my hunger is related to my body wanting to grow from lifting, or whether it's just wanting to return to its 210 pound overweight state that it was in 12 months ago.

[royalmike]

Go large or go home

[BillPhoto]

you had me at pancakes with Nutella and maple syrup ... repped!

[DCSpartan]

Here's the actual breakfast gone wrong:

1 x Sausage
1 x Hash brown
3 x Eggs
2 x Scotch pancakes with maple syrup
AMRAP!