To think this is a suitable breakfast?

[ARareKindaBear]

For years I have not eaten breakfast, I never have appetite in a morning so just drink coffee and wait until lunch to eat.

Recently however I’ve discovered honey Greek yogurt and I’ve become a bit obsessed with it! So I’ve been eating 100g of Greek honey yogurt mixed with 5g of chopped mixed nuts every morning for breakfast. I love it!

My mum has now decided I clearly have an eating disorder as that isn’t a suitable breakfast apparently - I think it’s quite healthy?! No crappy sugars that you would get with cereal, protein, fibre in the nuts? Honey is good for you too surely?

AIBU to think a) it’s healthy and b) it’s better than nothing?!

It’s absolutely fine and sounds lovely.

I struggle to eat breakfast in the morning too and so I may try it.”

Did your mum think you had an eating disorder when you wasn’t eating anything for breakfast?

I think it’s mad that you didn’t eat anything and now because you’re eating something she now thinks you have a problem - unless of course there are bigger issues as well.

Obviously the 6 bourbon biscuits aren’t the healthiest but if you’re a healthy weight and this makes you happy then so what.

I have a feast ice cream in the evening which is probably around the same calories as the 6 biscuits and I’m losing weight because that treat keeps me satisfied.

Have you lost a lot of weight since eating breakfast?

Lots of people find that eating breakfast helps them lose weight naturally and perhaps your mum is concerned because you’re losing weight and eating strictly.

It's fine. I have small overnight oats. It's enough to get ne up and going and doesn't trigger too much IBS.

What a load of bollocks.

Exactly. This is more indicative of a potential eating disorder than what you're actually eating

Was it on the way to Monolithos by any chance?

It's a really healthy breakfast and loads of people eat it

I ate Greek yogurt this morning too.

There is likely too much sugar in the honey yoghurt. Check the blurb on the label. Would be better to eat biolive natural yoghurt with the nuts.

I tried weighing out some shelled walnut halves. 5g is approx two walnut halves and another quarter. So a very small amount.

Off topic a bit but i struggle to understand how some people say i don't like fruit. There are so many different fruits and they all taste really different, i don't like bananas but love say an orange or strawberries, just seems odd to me that anyone can dislike all fruit

2 slices from a 400g loaf is hardly anything. It does sound like you’re restricting your food unnecessarily. So you don’t like fruit? Ok, but why don’t you add a cereal bar, nuts, a flavoured yoghurt, a hunk of cheese on a couple of crackers, a glass of milk/milkshake, etc, etc, to your lunch, for example? You’d find it easier to cut out the 6 Bourbons if you ate properly during the day.

So, I think your mum’s comment is really to do with more than your breakfast. As for weighing nuts, just grab a handful and shove them on!!

The honey isn't great, I would try to reduce it.

I used to have honey on my porridge but cut down gradually and now don't have any.

I always thought honey was really healthy 😬

i could add cucumber with the tuna I suppose. I do prefer a peanut butter sandwich over everything else however

the nuts are just chopped mixed nuts

I can’t think of a single fruit I actually like, they all taste bitter to me and give me stomach ache. I can tolerate banana more than anything else but I’d have to force myself to eat it

I don’t eat fruit as I simply don’t like it

I'm the same regarding fruit and usually have toast every morning, but I'm trying to cut back on that as I also have a sandwich at lunchtime so a bit to much on the carbs and although it's wholemeal bread I'm now often feeling the bloat.

This morning decided to try something a bit different for me so chopped up some strawberries, raspberries, a few blueberries and added a couple of spoons of Yeo Valley plain yogurt topped it with 2 teaspoons of maple syrup and a sprinkling of mixed nuts.
It was really nice and as the berries were at room temperature they tasted so much better that straight from the fridge.

Definitely a breakfast I'd eat daily now.

I'd add some fruit into that as well, but nothing wrong with it as part of a balanced diet.

There will be only a tiny amount of fibre in the nuts (7-10g per 100g depending on the nut). It doesn’t look like you may have that much fibre in the rest of your diet, so if you want more fibre, add something else to your yogurt such as oats or a homemade granola. Having natural Greek yogurt and adding your own honey (sugar) would be a better option than a yogurt already containing honey.

Flavoured yoghurt is a rubbish food. Full of processed sugar. Plain yoghurt with minimally processed honey or fruit is much better

Honey is ok anywhere outside of MN and their lowcarb "banana is like mars bar" crowd😂

I agree with pps about adding some fresh veg

Cereal bars are also highly processed and jam packed with sugar

Adding however, that pre mixed yogurts usually have normal sugar starches etc.

Moat fruit and veg taatea better at room temp. Tomatoes etc.
Not watermelon...

It's absolutely a healthy breakfast. Perhaps take out the honey & add some chopped up fruit - my favourite in this sort of breakfast is a mix of pear, blueberries, mango chunks. I buy the blueberries & mango chunks frozen, and stir them into the yoghurt, as they defrost. It's like really healthy ice cream!

According to a nutritionist friend, it's a far healthier breakfast than cereal or even raw oat muesli or porridge. It has a lot of protein in the yoghurt & nuts, and micronutrients in the fruit, and also fibre & healthy fats.

It's because you weigh your food and know how much 2 slices of bread weighs. That indicates an issue, the breakfast is by the by.

Why? What is a drizzle of honey going to do to you? Did you give up your drizzle of honey in your breakfast and now your health is so much better? You are going to live longer? I really am curious as to how it has improved your life enough that you are recommending others do the same?

It does. It helps with hay fever, because honey made locally is made with the pollen from the plants that are also producing the pollen that causes hay fever. Which helps you build a tolerance.