How I start my day

Like most people, I never ate breakfast. When asked why I would say "I feel sick to my stomach if I eat that early" mind you it was 10am lol. I realized that truly I had to time or if I did have time I wasn't sure what to eat. When I began to lose weight I heard a lot about how important breakfast is and soon I realized that it was the key to losing weight.

When you eat in the morning you tend to reach for fruit, cereal, oats, eggs etc. This has a huge effect on how your day will play out in terms of how you will eat and what you will choose to eat. When you have breakfast your setting your day up for complete success if your looking to lose weight. The question I get asked is "what should I eat"? For me breakfast is the one time where your allowed to eat what you love! You end up burning it thru the day since it fuels you for your daily activity. You could never go wrong with breakfast. Below are my top 3 breakfast meals I love to have in the morning because they fill me up for a longer time, they give me nutrients to keep me going till my next meal and they taste delicious!



my morning protein pancakes! yum yum!

Protein Pancakes!

3/4 c of egg whites
1 scoop of protein powder (vanilla or chocolate is my fav but you can use which ever one you like)
1/4 c Oats

Mix ingredients together.





*Wash blueberries and strawberries (cut strawberries in 4, use about 1/4 c of blueberries or as many as you like!)
*Pour a generous amount of batter on to medium heat skillet.
*Add blueberries and strawberries.

Once you see bubble flip those babies over

Add honey, jam or whatever rocks your taste buds! ENJOY!

Yogurt parfait!

This is very simple.

Ingredients:

-Plain yogurt (I like to use the plain but you can have what you like)
-Goji berries
-Black mission Fig
-Amla berry powder
-Honey

*I also like to add crumbled biscotti for a crunch or almonds or both!*

mix ingredients together and eat it up!

Egg white omelette and oatmeal!

Ingredients:

3/4 c eggwhites
1 whole egg

*you can add any veggie or chicken*

1/2 c oatmeal

*add cinnamon or chopped up fruit*

and......coffee :) I go for a walk first thing in the morning and grab my fav coffee walk back and have my breakfast.. :) This one I have on the weekends


My goal is to always find foods that are not only nutritious but also deliver nutrients. I love to go to my local nutrition house and look around for new organic dried fruit or powders that I can add to my yogurt or smoothies. Its what you love! and you can make it whatever you like! I like to add remixes to my breakfast because that's just my style. What's yours?

Typical breakfast around the world:

Switzerland

• combination of raw grains (mostly rolled oats), nuts and fresh and dried fruits, which was served with yogurt or milk.

Italy & France

• Coffee (cappuccino, tea etc.)  with bread and butter or a croissant

Central America

• Egg dishes include: Huevos rancheros and Huevos motuleño-This dish is made by spreading refried beans onto fresh tortillas, then adding a fried egg or two, chopped ham, peas, and cheese.
  The Costa Rican national dish is gallo pinto, which means "spotted rooster." The dish is a combination of fried rice and black beans, lightly spiced, that might be served with sour cream and eggs at breakfast time.

For more typical breakfast around the world visit http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2008/08/breakfast-around-world-list.html

It would be fun to have a "theme breakfast". hmmmmmm......