What 9 Olympic Athletes Vying For Gold In Pyeongchang Eat For Breakfast, Business Insider

For those of us with office jobs, breakfast may not be such a big deal. Maybe you grab a granola bar and a piece of fruit, or maybe you stick with black coffee. But for athletes competing in this year’s Winter Olympics, breakfast is a chance to prepare their bodies to perform incredible feats.

We scoured the web to see what some of the biggest stars of the upcoming games have shared about their breakfast routines. One has a personal chef who prepares a veggie omelet for her; another feasts on chocolate pancakes. Read to on to find out how athletes will be fueling up when the Winter Olympics start Friday.

Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin eats two eggs, two pieces of whole-wheat toast, and sometimes cereal or oatmeal and fruit. It’s part of her 3,000-calorie daily meal plan. Snowboarder Chloe Kim downs chocolate pancakes, biscuits and gravy, toast, and cottage cheese. “I don’t have a crazy diet,” she told PopSugar. Alpine skier Marcel Hirscher eats “lots of banana, mango, ham, and spelt bread” — and drinks coffee. He said he tries to avoid cow’s milk, eggs, and wheat. Figure skater Nathan Chen said he might have something like a smoothie, an egg breakfast wrap, or a yogurt.

Breakfast is one of his two big meals of the day. Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn has a personal chef, who said that Vonn’s favorite breakfast is scrambled eggs with red bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, spinach, garlic, Cholula hot sauce, and cilantro. If there’s an extra hard workout coming up, Vonn will also have some oatmeal. Figure skater Maia Shibutani (who skates with her brother, Alex) chows down on eggs, oatmeal, green tea with lemon, plus grapefruit juice or orange juice.

Alex Shibutani, the other half of the figure-skating duo, may have oatmeal with dried fruit, a chia seed bar and water for breakfast. Figure skater Adam Rippon makes breakfast right when he wakes up at 7 a.m. He loves Honey Nut Cheerios. Cross-country skier Jessie Diggins sometimes eats breakfast with her mom. They love toasting steel-cut oats in coconut oil and soaking them in almond milk and chai spices, then topping them with toasted apple slices, Greek yogurt, and pecans.

Thanks very much for stopping in! Meant to tell you that I like your great name for a writer! RTalloni, thanks for the information on flax seed. In fact, I think I will invest in a coffee grinder, and try it early next year. Thanks for sharing these great tips.

I have used flax in smoothies, informative hub. Only a true coffee addict could go for using the same grinder! Thanks for stopping by. I enjoy your writing. I use flax seed in my bread and love it. But have never had it fresh. I will have to look into getting another coffee grinder (the coffee smell just won't wipe out of my old one) then I will give it a try.

I use a coffee grinder because of the size of the machine since I use it 1-2 times a day, and the fine ground I can get from it. I use a different coffee grinder for my coffee! RT, how do you grind your seeds? In a food processor, mini electric chopper, coffee grinder?

Peggy W, So glad you found it helpful. Thanks for the comment. Merriweather, do check on the best way to store the ground flax seed meal. Thanks for stopping in to this hub! I have been reading articles about how nutritious it is and you have given me some great ideas of how to incorporate it into our diets. Very informative. I had no idea that flax seed could become rancid. I use whole ground flax seed meal, which is apparently different from what you're describing here. I have a lot to learn!

And don’t believe the myth that it's bad for you to go to sleep on a full stomach. Good luck and please feel free to share your thoughs or ask a question in the discussion below. When Is the Best Time to Poop? Weight LossThe 3 Day Military Diet Review - Can you Lose 10 pounds in a Week?

I guess I'll have to stop eating some of this food and do more movement as recommended on the waistline page. Thanks for reading Hussains, I enjoyed your "We the Humans" hub. It shows you have insight. Great Hub with excellent advice. You're welcome advoco. I can't stop myself going against the grain, hoping to give people new "food" for thought. You've packed a lot in to one article here and it is extremely well written, argued and presented.

As I have got older I have paid a lot more attention to healthy eating and dieting and there are some very interesting - if quite radical - ideas to consider here. What a good way of learning another language. And it proves how much time you can gain by not having to prepare food, eat and wash dishes all day.

I play this game with my students when we learn words in French for certain foods: I lay out an assortment of toy plastic foods and they have to prepare breakfast for me in French. How about using that instead of a real breakfast? A foolproof way of reducing calories.

Thank you Marisa for your comment. My views have never been mainstream. The beauty of Hub Pages is that authors here can express unconventional ideas and hopefully make a long overdue change. I'm sure this Hub will have diet "experts" up in arms. We're all being told we MUST eat breakfast to get our metabolisms going, not to skip meals, and to drink lots and lots and lots of water. Personally, I simply can't eat breakfast before around 9am and have actually been feeling guilty about that!

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