The Replacements: Making your Breakfast a Healthier Start

Being on a new nutrition plan isn't always easy, you're going to have days when you just want to fall off the wagon, and every now and then (maybe at most twice a month) you can fall off that wagon. It's not hard to get back on, provided you allow yourself a good lead on your health front to get back on. 

Yolk all over the place

Today's Breakfast:

"Healthy" as a hard boiled egg can be, the cholesterol levels are much higher and while in an egg white, it's virtually none. Also, most of the protein of the egg is in the whites.  A little whole wheat egg white wrap with some spinach and/or turkey bacon is a filling breakfast with a low amount of calories. On the left is a sample of the breakfast I am having currently and on the right is one that I used to have just a few months ago.

1/2 cup --egg whites --- 60 calories                   1 hard boiled egg --large --- 78 calories
1/4 cup --spinach --- > 5calories                       1/4 cup-- black forest ham-- 118 calories
1 tortillia-- whole wheat -- 85-100 calories        2 pieces of whole wheat toast (Not buttered)- 200 calories
1 tbsp salsa ---10 calories                                 2 tbsp cheddar cheese --130 calories
16 oz pressed coffee-- black-- 4 calories         16 oz pressed coffee-- black-- 4 calories
1 tsp-- raw sugar-- 15 calories                          1 tsp --white sugar--15 calories
1/8 cup -- 1% milk--28 calories                       2 tbsp --half and half cream-- 40 calories

Total calories: 222                                          Total calories: 585


I am comparing what I used to have for breakfast and what I have been having for the last few weeks.

I have shed between 300-330 calories just off one meal by making some little changes. It takes no time to get used to it and cooking it is simple.

I'll continue to have such a breakfast incorporated with similar meals at lunch and dinner and small snacks in between but also doing a good fitness/workout plan to boost my metabolism.

I am sharing my journal to help those on a similar trek to keep going. I'm not interested in losing pounds but making myself healthier and leaner. So far, I've dropped 2 inches off my waistline and trimmed my arms in the last 3 weeks. Just have to keep at it.

Justine Galo