High Protein Breakfasts for weight loss
How are you starting your day?
What tone are you setting for the day mentally, and how does your breakfast choice effect your body physically?
Higher protein diets can support weight loss by increasing satiety (positively effecting hormones that influence hunger). It’s the key macronutrient when it comes to body composition and maintaining muscle mass, which is a big ➕ for long term success! 💪
It also balances blood sugar levels to help prevent energy dips, mood swings, or high stress/anxiety levels, which all commonly trigger cravings for high sugar or salty processed snacks (high calorie, low nutrients, and low satiety!) or lead to overeating.
Reasons it can be so helpful to focus on at breakfast specifically include;
Breakfast is often is unbalanced - Low in protein and carb heavy thanks to stereotypical 'breakfast foods' like cereal, porridge, toast etc. 🥣 With protein also generally being the hardest macronurient for individuals to hit overall it helps increase daily intake early on, so we don’t end up falling short.
Prevention of cravings later on in the day - Sweet, high sugar and low protein meals to start the day = increased likelihood of craving these types of foods later thanks to its effect on blood sugar levels. If you want to set yourself up for a blood sugar roller coaster ride, that drags, energy, mood, and cravings, along with it, then a sweet imabalanced brekkie is the perfect way to do this!
On that note; keeping satisfied for longer, and energy stable throughout the morning to reduce that mid morning slump and need for pick me ups. Processed snacks between meals are far more likely to become a habit!
Creating a positive cycle - Mentally we are far more likely to want to eat more nutritious foods in line with our health and weight goals if we started the day with a positive step towards this!
🍴Practical ways to make it happen;🍴
Go for savoury over sweet (especially if sweet cravings crop up for you regularly) with options like omelettes/fritatta, veg scramble, tofu scramble, sardines or salmon, etc.
Add protein power to porridge and smoothies, or to make pancakes.
Use a high protein natural yogurt with fruit, or in overnight oats & add in a portion of seeds and/or nut butter for an additional small extra boost.
Perhaps an entire shake up of how you view breakfasts is needed! If you find it harder than lunch and dinner then simply have similar foods to these meals, for ex, leftover dinner can be turned into a breakfast hash or scramble, or simply eaten as is.
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