What do you fukkers do for breakfast?

**mtpockets** · 11-29-2023, 05:25 PM

I lift first thing in the morning usually within an hour of waking up. It’s what I do. I tried lifting fasted a couple of times, almost died the first time and the second time I actually think I died.

So for me it’s been the same breakfast for the most part since I was a kid. A couple slices of toast with honey or PB on it. Boring I know, I have been told that many times.

However, I am just being nosey and not complaining about it, I love it and dream about it sometimes, especially if it's a toasted PB and J sammich. After I am done lifting I have a full on breakfast for example, a few scrambled eggs with some meat and carbs.

So what do you guys have for breakfast? Especially the morning lifters.

**latverian41** · 11-29-2023, 05:28 PM

I rotated between smoothies in the blender an bacon and eggs/whole wheat.

**7Seconds** · 11-29-2023, 06:23 PM

I work out 5:00-5:30. Usually banana and oatmeal before, full breakfast after.

**Mark1T** · 11-29-2023, 07:08 PM

MT, I workout early and no eating before. After, I make some coffee and take a shower and then eat some oatmeal. Love banana and cinnamon or blueberries or strawberries.

Once a week I might have some farm-fresh eggs and homemade bread toast.

I eat mostly oatmeal for the good fiber and it is always delicious.

**steffo99** · 11-29-2023, 11:21 PM

I'm not sure how it turned out this way, but rarely have anything for breakfast. I'm just not hungry in the morning and it seems to have been this way since forever and it works for me. I make up for it later in the day though.

**Silencespeaks** · 11-29-2023, 11:33 PM

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**-=FLEX=-** · 11-30-2023, 06:09 AM

Originally Posted by mtpockets

I lift first thing in the morning usually within an hour of waking up.

Same.

Up at 5am; start lifting at 6am.

Coffee only and have done that for years.

When I lifted at commercial gyms I did Gatorade and caffeine tablets instead of coffee due to drive time.

no breakfast crew

**latverian41** · 11-30-2023, 06:15 AM

Originally Posted by Mark1T

MT, I workout early and no eating before. After, I make some coffee and take a shower and then eat some oatmeal. Love banana and cinnamon or blueberries or strawberries.

Once a week I might have some farm-fresh eggs and homemade bread toast.

I eat mostly oatmeal for the good fiber and it is always delicious.

If I was doing cardio in the mornings I'd always do it on empty stomach but if I was lifting I always got in a proper meal an hour or so before hand

**Cantplankwell** · 11-30-2023, 06:22 AM

Hit the gym at 6am (March-December)
1 pc of WW Toast&PB, and a hardboiled egg. 2 big mugs of Black coffee.
after gym.....Nothing until lunch

December-End of February...gym in early evening/late afternoon.
Breakfast stays the same.

**ajdahlheimer** · 11-30-2023, 06:43 AM

I only eat breakfast on the weekends (Saturday, Sunday) which are the two days I lift earlier in the morning. Bacon, eggs, oatmeal, OJ, etc.

Just have coffee in the morning during the week (which I could honestly take or leave, definitely don't need it). Lift around 11am those days and prefer to eat afterwards. I'll have a smoothie prior to lifting on some heavier/intense days though.

-AJ

**TimKridel** · 11-30-2023, 06:46 AM

Just coffee. I get up at 5:30 am and start my workout around 7:30 am.

I used to eat cereal (typically plain bran flakes) for breakfast but stopped when I started working out in 2015. My first meal is now a protein shake after my workout.

I didn't realize it until about a year in that as a result, I was doing intermittent fasting. I think this site is where I learned about it. It works for me.

**x-trainer ben** · 11-30-2023, 07:04 AM

I suck at lifting in the mornings and i eat dinner late( 8-10pm) after the gym, so i am still full at breakfast time.
THIS IS PERFECT for me because it has caused an intermittent fasting type situation where i don't eat until 12 or 2pm and end then again eating after the gym.
Rinse and repeat.

**induced_drag** · 11-30-2023, 07:06 AM

I have not eaten before 1-3pm for the past 5 years (outside a handful of times).

Fasting is my norm now and has been for sometime. I workout in evenings so not really an issue. But I think I would still do the same if I worked out AM. But I would probably switch to eating something after working out and shift my fasting window.

IF is just so easy and given that I dont really 'progress' these days, it is by far the best way for me to control body fat and eat pretty much whatever I want.

**SuicideGripMe** · 11-30-2023, 04:37 PM

As a teacher, I tend to need something in my belly to stabilize my mood a bit in the AM but waking up to an alarm vs naturally usually causes me to not be so hungry (especially post 30).

My current breakfast is very simple but helps me hydrate and get some easy protein. I boil up some miso soup with dry seaweed, spring onion, maybe some dry tofu and drop two eggs in and whisk gently. Drink that and then have a coffee and piece of fruit. This really hits the spot for me. On my weekends, I usually like to have some whole-grain or german rye or pumpernickle toast with eggs and baked beans.

**eomrat** · 11-30-2023, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by mtpockets

I lift first thing in the morning usually within an hour of waking up. It’s what I do. I tried lifting fasted a couple of times, almost died the first time and the second time I actually think I died.

So for me it’s been the same breakfast for the most part since I was a kid. A couple slices of toast with honey or PB on it. Boring I know, I have been told that many times.

However, I am just being nosey and not complaining about it, I love it and dream about it sometimes, especially if it's a toasted PB and J sammich. After I am done lifting I have a full on breakfast for example, a few scrambled eggs with some meat and carbs.

So what do you guys have for breakfast? Especially the morning lifters.

Two fried eggs. One piece of dry, white toast, bacon or sausage. Nearly every day for the past 30 years.

**LWW** · 11-30-2023, 05:06 PM

I’ve never done the same thing for years.

There was a time, when the hounds were young, they’d wake me up at 6am and we would for an hour, and then I would squat “fasted”. I got down to 160# BW back then.

I can tell you now though tomorrow first I’m gonna eat a horse coc sized banana, and 15 minutes later a builder bar followed by one of my new natty fig bars I just got. Then about an hour later I’ll start on the bagels and PB, throw in some eggs later in the day, early afternoon.

I know I can eat a certain AF Vet for breakfast, lol!

**SuicideGripMe** · 11-30-2023, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by eomrat

Two fried eggs. One piece of dry, white toast, bacon or sausage. Nearly every day for the past 30 years.

If you had a cup of OJ and black coffee I think that would be the typical American breakfast from when Americans were actually healthier as compared to today's processed cereal breakfast.