Breakfast for winners

[Heather1981]

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, I was just wondering what people tend to eat for breakfast on running days and on the days they don't run? I am always looking for advice to make stronger and healthier

[Hidden]

Grilled Danish bacon for me most mornings. The health fanatics say it's terrible, but it's lean protein at only about 90 kcals per rasher. No bread with that. Bread is terrible.

[womblejogger Graduate]

I am never a great breakfast person but as I increase the distance with my runs I am finding myself getting a lot hungrier so breakfast I fast becoming very important, usually I try and get a healthy cereal such as a whole fibre flake or biscuit, maybe a fruit and fibre type cereal, I am loving overnight oats at the moments and trying to make that as healthy as possible and I am finding they are doing a great job of keeping me fuller for longer, on days when I don't have time I usually grab a banana and eat that with a cup of coffee not the best but could be a lot worse

[Babsicles Graduate]

Monday to Friday it has to be home made smoothies for me soya milk with soya yoghurt, berries and spinach and half a scoop of diet whey

I take it to work and have it at my desk

On Saturday I will have the same except on Sunday one of my running days when I have porridge

[Curlygurly2 Graduate]

Porridge made with milk, served with very low fat creme fraiche, (not because I'm dieting but because I like the taste) and demerera sugar in winter, overnight oats served the same way in summer.

[loubeelou76 Graduate]

Overnight oats. Oats soaked in milk with frozen berries and two tablespoons of yoghurt. Put in a jar overnight in fridge. Shake when ready to eat preferably after morning run and enjoy.

[Rignold]

Nothing at all if I am running. Fasted cardio for the win.

Protein, cottage cheese, avocado, creatine & milk smoothie on weights days.

Poached egg on avocado on grilled aubergine slice or bacon, egg and avocado on rest days.

[RebeccaSK Graduate]

If I'm running or exercising at weekends (when I normally try and fit it in first thing) I make a smoothie of almond milk, ripe banana, oats, cinnamon and a teeny bit (less than a teaspoon) of maple syrup.

If I'm running or exercising in the week then it's always after work and in the evenings so I actually pay more attention to what I'm eating for lunch. About 90 minutes to an hour before I go I try and have a banana or a few unsalted almonds.

Having said this, one of my most successful runs ever was after a day full of meetings where I'd not been able to get lunch. All I ate all day were unsalted almonds and the cookies provided at one of the meetings. I wonder whether, at this level at least, I'm overthinking what I'm eating prior to exercising.

[mfamilias Graduate]

Banana and muesli in spring and summer, porridge in colder periods. Banana is my favorite running fuel.

[Hidden]

I am just about to have fruit salad and full fat natural yoghurt (keeps you fuller longer and tastes yum) a few chopped up nuts and seeds and a nice cup of tea

[Millsie-J Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Similar to me, but soya yogurt. If i run after 9 am its usually porridge and half banana at least hour and half before the run.

[ladyharvills Graduate]

Breakfast, after running, porridge, banana and blueberries. I have this every day, all year round.

[misswobble Graduate]

I fuel my run days on proper porridge oats. Nothing else keeps me as full. I make mine with water and a pinch of sea salt. Dish it up with a bit of honey, jam or syrup. Maybe berries, apricot or prunes

Some peeps like toast, scrambled eggs and maybe smoked salmon. Toast and peanut butter seems to go down well with runners

I like grilled bacon, mushrooms and grilled tomatoes with some wholemeal toast at least once a week. I sometimes have it for lunch or even tea

Eating healthily will give you more energy 🙂💪✔️

[misswobble Graduate]

I have a nana a day 🙂

I like avocado now having previously disliked it. I get cottage cheese down me by whizzing it up with fruit and sugar-free jelly, and setting it in the fridge 😋

[AnnieW55]

Nothing. Prefer to run fasted, although may have a glass of water before I go.

Occasionally, on non running day s, I might have scrambled eggs cooked in sea salt flaked butter or half an Avacado. But I don't buy into the most important meal of the day thing. Technically 😀 Breakfast can be any time and is most often for me at around 1pm when I break fast.

[Maztink]

I can't run on a full stomach so eat after fruit , yoghurt , and sometimes a crumbled weetabix on top for crunch

Overnight oats if I have been organised doesn't happen very often!

[Whatsapp Graduate]

I run before breakfast. If its a work day then two slices of toast one with jam or marmite and the other with peanut butter (wholemeal bread, because it tastes better). If its a weekend run then porridge with fruit, or alpen.