Eat protein for breakfast every morning

It regulates my mood, it kick-starts my brain, and it gives me the calm and assurance to proceed with my day.

One day this week was so crazy I didn’t have protein until lunchtime, and I was exhausted and upset all day.

Protein before 9:30 AM powers me through.

I started to take my protein in the morning and after training but I’m tired of the chemical chocolate taste. I can’t stand the strawberry and vanilla ones too…. I better eat some meat

Ok I think i can say I’ve accomplished this. I have had my same old box of cereal sitting in the kitchen now for months. I have become a scrambled eggs person now. I usually do one whole and one white with some veggie sausage and toast. I am just not as interested in the old cereal, or dunkin donuts thing anymore.

I’m not inclined to snack in the morning. I’m adding a bowl of Old Fashioned oatmeal to the mix along with my typical eggs.

So I have been eating protein for breakfast for almost half a year, and after some struggle I feel safe with my new habit. Every once in a while I slip a little (for the duration of one meal), but I’m almost perfect. A few things I have learned:

• There’s a lot of variation, it doesn’t have to be just eggs every day. I’ve had salmon, roast chicken, meat loaf, scrambled eggs, soft-boiled eggs (a favorite), and other proteins for breakfast.
• I love the complex carb. I eat oatmeal (cold, with milk) almost every day but every once in a while I have some sort of potato dish or some other complex carb.
• If I don’t have the “right” kind of breakfast I will be hungry quickly, usually before lunch, and spend most of the day longing for food. If I do have the “right” kind of breakfast I feel satisfied and I don’t get hungry.
• With the “wrong” kind of breakfast I don’t just get hungry, I also get MISERABLE!
• This whole thing was a struggle for quite a while… but in time it became second nature. In less than half a year I have overcome over twenty years of high-carb breakfasts! I am ready to go on because I know I can do just about anything if I can just keep dusting myself off and marching on.
• My eating habits have changed, slowly and subtly. These days I find myself wanting veggies and fruit when before I just wanted carbs and fat (ice cream, chocolate…). I enjoy fresh veggies and going without dessert (when eating out) has become way easier. Every once in a while saying “no” to dessert is a piece of cake (sorry, bad pun, couldn’t resist).
• I’ve lost weight! Almost without noticing.

I feel that I’m ready to retire this goal and move on to the next step: keeping a food journal, WHILE CONTINUING the protein for breakfast thing.

I had a lot of trouble following Christmas but I’m back on track. I think I’ll go to step 2 soon, which is keeping a food journal. Just want to give the protein breakfasts a little more time so I feel completely stable.

Had a carby breakfast today. Bad planning and procrastination combined spell: D I S A S T E R. Ah well, I’ll start over tomorrow. New end date: March 23.

If you had told me two years ago that I would be eating meat loaf for breakfast I would have said you’re nuts. But, that’s what I had for breakfast this morning and it was good :o)

Tomorrow morning I’ll have cheese. Ha! With raw broccoli (this is a test only, I have seen people eat raw broccoli and wanted to find out how nasty it really is. Wouldn’t it be funny if I found out I actually like it!).