-eating breakfast every morning [something I usually don't do]
-have it within an hour of getting up
-include a protein [I usually didn't do]
I officially started this on 8/1/08, though I did have breakfast several mornings before 8/1. Most days, I do have breakfast but not always within an hour of getting up. I'm wondering it this hour starts when I wake up in the morning, or when I get up? I almost always stay in bed for awhile until I'm more awake as I very frequently have problems with sleeping during the night. Then I need to take my shower if I take one that day and get dressed before going downstairs. Maybe I should TRY and switch to showering at night so it won't take me so long to go downstairs and find something. Since I've started eating in the morning, for the most part, I've been having some protein.
One problem I'm having right now is that it seems that I'm more hungry throughout the day than before [though before, I was better at suppressing the hunger; maybe I'm just more aware of it now]. I *have* read about the idea of 'false' hunger that's talked about a bit later in the book--so I'm going to have to figure out what's real and what's not as in MY mind right now is that it's all hunger. A couple years ago in reading about fluid intake, sometimes we think we're hungry when in fact, we're a bit dehydrated and thus, drinking water will take care of that...
Have I had breakfast yet today? Well, kind of. I haven't been downstairs yet but HAVE been eating some of my home made trail mix that includes nuts, yogurt covered raisins, sunflower seeds, broken up pretzels, and a few M&Ms thrown in [I haven't gotten to the sugar 'detox' yet, that comes quite a bit later in the program.
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It's me again, Denise! What I have for breakfast is (a) Egg Nutrigrain Lowfat Whole Grain waffles (2) with natural peanut butter - 1 T. split between the 2 waffles, and probably 2 T. of sugar free syrup..or (b) a whole grain low calorie English Muffin made into an Egg McMuffin by poaching an egg, 1 slice of American cheese, and 1 slice of Canadian bacon. I found a great little toaster at the hardware store that was MADE ESPECIALLY for making this egg sandwich. It was about $40 but I have seen them for only $30 and you might want to invest in one. It has a little pan for the egg and then you put water in the base of it so the egg gets poached. Then there is a little tray for the Canadian bacon, too, and you put your 2 halves of English muffin into the toaster. It's slick. I LOVE Egg McMuffins. I usually switch, one day waffles, the next day Egg McMuffins. :)
Suzy, I'm going to have to try that waffle with peanut butter a try--I *love* peanut butter. I haven't had waffles or pancakes in ages and ages though I know they can be healthy. I'll have to look around for some good but easy recipes--and to check out the premade ones like the Nutrigrain one that you mentioned...
And that egg mcmuffin maker sounds awesome; I definitely want to look into finding one for me to have. I know it'll get used! Do you know what this gadget is called, so I can look around on amazon or elsewhere to compare prices?
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