What On Earth Should We Be Eating For Breakfast?!

Today we are talking about what to eat for breakfast!

What to eat for breakfast is always a hot topic because it can get a little confusing and if you get it wrong the stakes are big!

So today I wanted to talk about breakfast and cover three important questions:

1. What should we eat for breakfast?

2. What if I don’t like chia pudding?

3. Do I have to eat breakfast at all?

 Let's jump in.

Question #1: What should we eat for breakfast?

You should eat foods that are high in healthy fats.

Healthy natural fats like eggs, avocados, olive oil, coconut milk, cheese, and meat are what you want to eat for breakfast.

Why? Because what you eat for breakfast determines your metabolism for the day.

If you eat carbs such as bran muffins, low-fat yogurt with granola, toast and peanut butter, cereal bars, cereal, all cereal, even Kashi Go Lean and all that jazz.

If you eat carbs you have gotten on the metabolic rollercoaster and you will struggle to control your hunger, your cravings, and your weight all day.

If you eat natural fat for breakfast you will provide your mitochondria with it’s best fuel. You will not be hungry all morning and not reach for snacks. You will maintain excellent blood sugar and insulin control so that you are easily burning fat between meals.

Breakfast is a huge deal.

You either get on the crazy sugar rollercoaster or the smooth, steady train of energy.

Your call.

Question #2: What if I don’t like chia pudding?

To help you get started I provide a very basic recipe for Coconut Chia Breakfast Pudding. Which is basically chia seeds in coconut milk and a splash of vanilla. It’s easy. It’s quick. And not everyone loves it.

Many of us live off of it, but usually the women who don’t like the texture or don’t like coconut milk or can’t do seeds, email me and let me know.

But good news for them! The chia seed pudding is not a magic weight loss recipe. Well, it is, actually, but why, why is the chia seed pudding so great?

Because it’s high in healthy fat! Super high is healthy fats!

So you don’t have to eat the chia pudding, but what do you need to eat?

How about all the healthy fats I list in the guide next the chia pudding?

You can have eggs, any style, you can have avocado drizzled with olive oil and red pepper flakes. You can have bacon and sausage. You can have smoked salmon and cream cheese, just not the bagel.

The bigger problem here is that our cultural breakfast norms are processed carbs. Pancakes, muffins, waffles, baked stuff, bread, cereal, etc. So it’s not natural to think of naturally fatty things to eat in the morning.

So we need to relax our shoulders a bit and think outside the box and have some fun with breakfast!

Could you not try cheddar cheese cubes, almonds, and a few olives? Sure!

Could you try heavy whipping cream in your coffee? Yep.

Could you try an avocado stuffed with smoked salmon?

Could you try bacon with a few raspberries. Yep.

Could you try sandwich meat and brie cheese? Yes.

I want to encourage you to think outside the line of the continental breakfast and find true metabolic health.

Trust me, it’s worth it! So worth it!

Question #3. Do I have to eat breakfast at all?

No. Nope. Sure don’t.

That’s right. If you are one of the 50% of the population that doesn’t eat breakfast, that’s cool. You actually don’t have to eat it.

But if you don’t eat breakfast, you have to do it right.

You still can’t have carbs in the morning. Which means no sweeteners in the coffee. No Splenda, no stevia, no sugar, no international delights caramel flavorings. You can have cream, that’s a healthy fat. But you can’t have sugar. Just like the rest of us.

Same rule holds.

And nibbling on stuff all morning but not having a set meal is still eating. Having a bit of toast a few berries, half a container of low-fat yogurt. That is eating.

If you truly do not eat breakfast, I want you to consider taking this same information about insulin, blood sugar, and hunger control from breakfast to lunch.

I want you to follow these same principles for whatever your first meal of the day is. Whatever you break your fast with.

It should not be processed carbs. It should be healthy fats.

This will be a total game changer for a lot of you.

Hooray!

I’m pumped for you!

If you are struggling with breakfast, you are probably over complicating it.

You just need healthy fats. It can be healthy fats not normally found at breakfast in North America like chicken thighs for example.

That’s ok!

So, I encourage you to think outside the box and do what it takes to eat healthy fats at your first meal so that you can lose weight, achieve glowing health and never gain back a pound.

Yes, it’s that important.

Remember, what the goal is: to eat healthy fat for breakfast.

Don’t get stuck on what you don’t like, it’s just food.

If you are struggling with breakfast and putting together meals and want personal direction and ideas for your food preferences and budget, you may by interested in joining the Freese Method online group coaching program.

In the program you and I spend 12 weeks together and I can help guide you personally through all the details of eating well, including more recipes and ideas made just for you.

You absolutely have what it takes to lose weight and keep it off, you just need to fix your metabolism first!