I’ve been experimenting (tweaking) my breakfast for some time now and I believe I am close to what I call the perfect breakfast. A perfect breakfast is simply one that is high with good stuff, low in bad stuff and sets me up with enough energy to keep me going throughout the day both physically and mentally.
We all know by now how important breakfast is. It’s labelled as the most important meal of the day. I believe this is because the morning sets (tunes) your body into a rhythm. If the rhythm is disrupted in the morning your day is also disrupted. Therefore, your breakfast is a setup program for this fine pice of machinery to work at optimum capacity.
Disclosure: The following list is by no means perfect and I’m sure I will refine it over the next few months. For me it works and I’m sure you can give it a shot and see it also working for you too.
My perfect breakfast
First the most important part – do not wait more than 90 minutes after waking to eat your breakfast. Since this may increase your chances of obesity by nearly 50%!
1. Replenish your fluids
As soon as you wake up the first thing you should always do is replenish your liquids with 2 glasses of water.
1st glass - standard water – filtered water is always better.
2nd glass – mix in Kyo-Green Powdered Drink Mix
Why Kyo Green?
Just one serving and you hit your daily quota of green vegetables. That’s something to get excited over. It contains Wheat grass which has a huge amount of health benefits, Barley grass, Brown rice, Chlorella, Kelp & FOS. It is the best combination of nutrients from the Land and Sea supporting your immune and healthy intestinal conditions. But the biggest benefit we really need here is for morning digestion & detox. This will move your bowels in about 15 mins and clean them out from yesterday’s intake.
2. Get your Fibre
Eat cereal which has no more than 3g of fat per serving and around 7g or more of fibre. Make sure you do not use Cow Milk, just Soy Milk. Cow Milk is full of fat!
Don’t over eat here since this is just the beginning of your breakfast.
Why Fibre?
The fibre will help keep your belly full and your blood sugar levels stable.
The last thing you want is an energy rollercoaster ride throughout the morning. If you havent experienced the bliss of consistent energy then I highly recommend you try a lemon detox program like the one I did and lost 13 pounds in 8 days. This will change how you think about source of consistent energy levels from food.
Cereal, Raisins (sultanas) in Soy Milk
Add raisins (sultanas for Aussies) to your cereal. Raisins provide potassium which you body uses to convert sugars into energy.
3. Get your Protein
Eat scrambled eggs with 1 slice of rye bread and some avocado.
Why Protein?
Eggs are a great source of protein. Saint Louis University researches found that people who eat eggs for breakfast consume 264 fewer calories the rest of the day than those who eat bagels and cream cheese. Hmmm bagels – my old breakfast lol.
Protein also helps repair body cells, builds and repair muscles and bones (weight lifters use Protein supplements for this reason), it is also a great source of energy and helps control many of the important processes in the body related to metabolism. More here about the health benefits of protein.
4. Get your Omega 3, 6 & 9 essential fatty acids
Take 1 teaspoon of Udo’s oil blend is enough to meet your daily essential fatty acid requirements.
Why essential fatty acids (Omega 3, 6 & 9)?
Udo's Oil |
No doubt you would have heard by now about Omega 3 & 6 being vital for your body to function normally, including your skin, respiratory system, circulatory system, brain and organs.
Omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids are known as essential fatty acids (EFA’s). Our bodies cannot manufacture them, and we must consume them in our diets. Omega 9 fatty acids are not as essential but Udo’s oil contains it as a bonus so why not. |
There is more information about the health benefits of Omega Fatty Acids in this article here.
5. Increase your Metabolism & Energy levels
Drink 1 or 2 gourds of Yerba Mate Cruz de Malta tea.
Why Yerba Mate and not tea/coffee?
It’s refreshing and energizing and has a nice list of health benefits. Leave behind caffeine jitteriness or its addictive tendencies and kick-start your day with Yerba Mate tea.
This Argentinian plant plan contains 90% more meatabolism-boosting catechins than green tea. In fact, its meatabolism-boosting powers are so great that many weight loss pills list mate on their ingredients lists. Want to know more about Yerba mate? Click here to read my prior post on this wonder drink.
Note: Give yourself 30 minutes after you have eaten breakfast before drinking Yerba Mate tea. You don’t want to flush your stomach’s digestive juices with liquid while it’s digesting the healthy breakfast.
6. Vitamin D supplements
Every 2nd day take 1 x Vitamin D-3 (5000IU) pill with your breakfast.
Why Vitamin D supplements?
It’s no secret that Vitamin D deficiency is a part of our life. It’s mainly due to our social habits working & living indoors and spending limited time in the sun. Unless you spend at least 1 hour per day in the sun in shorts every day.
Vitamin D inexpensively promotes health and keeps those pills and cold flu injections away from you. I started off with dangerously low 13 ng/ML (January 2010) levels and now am at 54 ng/ML (June 2010) by following a Vitamin D supplement program.
You made it!
So there you have it. This is the my ultimate breakfast program that kepts me full of energy and feeling great. I havent included any fruit in this program since I believe fruit should be a part of your diet throughout the day especially during those “snack times”.
A lot of the cool information I learnt here is from self experimentation and a fantastic book called Eat This Not That!. You can pick it up from Amazon by clicking here.
I would love to hear from you what your breakfast diet consists of and why. I believe that we cannot all have the same breakfast since every body calls for different amount of nutrients to sustain a healthy lifestyle. I say it’s best to always listen to your body and supply it with what it needs.
And no that isn’t bagels with cream cheese!!
Happy breakfasting!
Ernest
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| Eat This Not That! | Kyo Grass | Udo’s Oil | Vitamin D 5,000 IU |
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