Cereal Addict here...I don't usually buy cold cereal at all and have learned to survive with oatmeal w/ soy milk. My boyfriend loves honey nut cherrios and I don't care for those too much so that helps. Oatmeal has so many possibilities. I will occassional by a healthy cereal like Special K w/ berries and have it with soymilk, banana, and berries. Putting all the fruit on helps fill me up. In college I use to eat bowl after bowl while studying and it affected my weight a little. I just have no will-power so I keep it out of the house.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by hurryinhoosier:
[b]I love cereal. I eat it for any meal and often in a huge bowl. I think this is probably my weight loss achilles heal.

Granola, Life, Cherrios, Peanut Butter Bumpers - even my kid's Clifford Crunch (the Big Red Dog..). There aren't many cold cereals I don't enjoy. I have on occasion eaten a whole box in a day. I cannot stop at one bowl or one serving size. Yes, I am a cereal addict.

I am wanting to start a cereal support group.
If you want to join me please post your story and update periodically.

My goal is at least 2 weeks without cold cereal. Oats, bran, cream of wheat are allowed and are better for you than cold cereal. From that point I will see how I feel and if I have lost any weight. Obviously I will need to replace these carbs with some "better" carbs. If it goes well I will shoot for another two weeks and see how I do.

I am starting to cold sweat already....

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Sounds like you're addicted to the sugar in the cereal. This is just from looking at the "cereals" that you eat. They're all loaded with too much sugar. When I buy cereal, I make sure that there's little or no added sugar. Sometimes I think the manufacturers purposely load up their cereals with sugar to get people addicted to them.

Hey Guys,
Just thought I've offer another options over oatmeal... my favorite breakfast warm cereal is wheatabix or quinoa. Wheatabix can be eaten either hot or cold, but its just pure wheat... its not sugary and its good for you. Quinoa is this super faux grain that is a great alternative to oatmeal. I usually eat it with some raisins in it. SOOO good. You can usually find it in bulk sections of natural food stores.

Rachel

Hello Jay.
Hello everyone.

I am an official member of the Peanut Butter Puffins Addiction Society.
For those of you that do not know, it is an addiction to Barbara's Bakery PB Puffin cereal.
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view at your own risk.

I have tried other peanut-butter-puff-type-cereals:
Peanut Butter Bumpers - good.
Envirokids Peanut Butter Panda Puffs - amazingly good.

That how it starts you know, the gateway puff. Then you're trying more hardcore puffs. Next thing you know, the puffs control your life.

Remember, the first step is admitting you have a problem.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by hurryinhoosier:
I had to give up Peanut Butter Bumpers a month ago. That stuff is crack - not cereal. I would eat a box in a day. Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch was my favorite until they stopped using the foil bag - the taste was indeed affected by that cost saving change.
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Man, this triggered a flashback for Hairy Trotter. A few years back, Mrs. Trotter picked up a couple of boxes of Peanut Butter Bumpers (aka The Devil's Manna, aka Crack in a Sack). I did not ask for them, and I felt guilty when I ate them, like I was depriving some fat little kid somewhere of a sugar high by taking his junk. Then the binge began. I ate both boxes in a couple of days, then took a special trip to the store to get more. And then another trip for more. Those smug little hippies that work at Whole Foods got to know me well. And laugh at me behind my back. Long story short, after days of binging on the stuff, I was reduced to sitting on the couch, staring at the TV with crumbs stuck in my goatee, feeling bloated and blue.

Never eaten that stuff since. Or any of those hyper-sweet Captain Crunch-esque Boxes of Evil. I think I blew some sort of gasket during that bender.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Arrojo:
No sugar = no taste.

Captain Crunch. mmmmm.<HR>

Honeynut cheerios and raisin bran for me!

I do however limit myself to only one 3/4 cup serving. I put it in the smallest bowl I can find so that it looks like more than it is. I always want to go back for a second scoop, but rarely give in.

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I just 'discovered' Total as well.
It is pretty darn yummy!
and chock full of goodness!