OT - Breakfast and Caffeine | Arthritis Information
I was just wondering what people eat for breakfast and do you have some form of caffeine then. I usually have cereal but sometimes I have pancakes, hot oatmeal, french toast, or eggs/breakfast sandwich. I never used to have to have coffee/caffeine to function, but at the age of 44 I started drinking coffee to function. This fatigue is tough. The only real drawback to coffee for me is that I need to have sugar in it. Plus, I definitely crash later in the day. How do you all manage?
Kim
I usually have a some berries with vanilla yogurt and grapenuts cereal. I drink water generaly...Igave up caffeine over 4 years ago.
skip the heavy carbs and add some protein and fruit to your breakfast and see if that makes a difference.
I have a cup of coffee while I get ready for work.
Breakfast I try to keep at 280 calories and under so I usually either have a skimpy ham sandwich or an egg fried with a little bit of cooking spray with a half piece of low fat cheese on an english muffin. Sometimes a cup of cereal with 1/2 cup of milk. Then I take my pills with a bottle of water.
In fact I'm just finishing up now...
For me it's usually cereal and a bit of OJ. I've never had a cup of coffee in my life. My husband makes the
best Greek-style yoghurt, so my breakfast, like Buckeye's, is usually a small serving of yoghurt, mixed with grapenuts-style cereal and whatever fruit is in season. In the winter I substitute frozen fruit or a dollop of applesauce.
I used to relish a steaming cup of coffee (sans sugar) as I watched the Sun rise and am anticipating that same pleasure in the near future.
Our main meal of the day is mid-afternoon to prevent that slammed feeling that Snow describes at night.
Fatigue is often the least manageable part of RA.
Oh Shug! I would loooooove to know how to do that! Yoghurt is a staple for me! I love the stuff!
Breakfast IS caffeine, LOL. I drink coffee nonstop until somewhere between 3 and 5pm. Then I eat something (would
that be breakfast?). Coffee continues throughout the day, but I switch to decaf around 8pm......not that it helps the least with my insomnia......
If I could carry that big bag around all day, I'd probably enjoy a coffee IV drip.well i usually have a different combination of food everday, cuz it makes things more interesting. lol, today for breakfast i had:
yogurt
cereal
2 cresants
a blueberry muffin
a banana
and a glass of milk
LOL, SnowOwl, that story reminded me of a
very tumultuous plane flight. We had just been served the meal when the pilot decided to fly right into the jet stream....or something. The hilarious part was looking out over the seat rows and seeing dozens of hands up in the air, coffee cups swooping with the movement of the plane. By the time it was over, everyone had food splattered all over them, but we die-hard addicts still had our nearly-full cups of coffee to "ease our nerves"!
I use that non-dairy powder stuff --- buy it by the 55-gallon drum. Well, not, but I do stock up. I did have an ulcer once, but it was from stress. Coffee helped that.
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