Create Healthy Eating Habits: A Health Coach's Top Tip
Start Your Day With A Balanced Breakfast
A Health Coach’s Top Tip To Healthy Eating
Starting your day with a nutritious and balanced breakfast is, in my opinion, one of the best health and wellness habits you can adopt.
Starting the day with a balanced breakfast is a great way to start creating healthy eating habits.
Why Is Breakfast Important?
When you start your day with a nutritious breakfast, you improve your ability to think clearly and can be at the top of your game. Plus, a balanced breakfast sets the tone for a day of healthy and supportive food choices and gives you the opportunity to start and stay in a place of blood sugar balance.
Maintaining blood sugar balance will set you up to feel more satisfied throughout the day as well as ward off future cravings. Both of which are very important if you are interested in losing weight the healthy way. An added bonus of blood sugar regulation is that it will reduce your risk for obesity and metabolic syndrome.
How To Build A Healthy Breakfast
When you create a breakfast, follow this simple formula to ensure that your meal is balanced and nutritious.
Healthy Breakfast Formula = A Slowly-Digesting Carbohydrate + High Quality Protein + Healthy Fat + Some Fiber
You need all four of these components to stabilize blood sugar levels. Additionally, these components will keep you feeling satisfied and nourished all morning long.
And an important little side-note about satiety. Without satisfaction, you will very likely continue to seek out food. This means that if you eat a breakfast that is missing one or more of these components, you greatly increase the likelihood of overeating or overindulging later in the day.
Healthy Breakfast Ideas
Here are some easy breakfast ideas which implement the Healthy Breakfast Formula. These breakfasts will “break-the-fast” in a very nutrient dense way and regulate blood sugar levels first thing. They will also keep you feeling satisfied throughout the morning so that you can establish healthy eating habits and achieve and maintain your ideal weight!
Smoothie/Smoothie Bowl
Eggs:
A Few Options:
Omelet with Veggies
Egg Muffin Bites
Egg Sandwich
Boiled Eggs with Ezekiel Toast/Muffin
Scrambled Eggs and Fruit
Quinoa Egg Bowl
Avocado Toast with Eggs
No Bake Breakfast Bars
Example: Nut Butter Oat Bars with Flax and Protein
High Quality Turkey Breakfast Sausage and Veggies
Overnight Oats with Protein
Breakfast Porridge
Recipes for healthy breakfasts like these are available in my FREE Resource Library.
Check out my Ultimate Guide To Creating A Healthy Kitchen: Breakfast Edition for some tips on how to stock your kitchen for breakfast success. It will ensure that you have everything you need to whip together a healthy breakfast on the fly and in a pinch!
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Two insider resources you may enjoy based on this article are:
healthy breakfast recipes
A collection of healthy breakfast recipes (including the breakfast recipes listed above) which put the Healthy Breakfast Formula into action.
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Sources/Additional Reading
Article by Dr. Mark Hyman: “Why I Tell My Patients to Eat Breakfast If They Want to Lose Weight”