Bigtime Breakfast

I’ve been getting questions from non-CrossFitters about nutrition lately. A common one is “what do you eat?” the reason being for that I presume is people forget about the basics and think my diet as dieting.

My responses are usually to point, and I always start with “Well I start with a big breakfast” the usual reply is a guilty look or the actual statement of “I don’t eat breakfast”. That makes me wince, skipping breakfast just sets your day up for disaster. Really. If you skip it you’ll not function at your full capacity and it will probably lead to poor meal choices for the rest of the day.

Bam! Breakfast great way to kick off the day.

I know can’t get by without a good size breakfast. I always make sure I have the time to make it, I rarely go with the quick smoothie option. I’m probably too consistent in my choice of foods but it works, Monday to Friday usually consists of a four jumbo egg scramble, in it I add some spicy salsa, 30 grams of cheese (gotta keep it sticky) which equals just a little more than five blocks of protein and after reading this post I started adding avocado in to the mix too. That covers off the protein and a large amount of the fat (I also cover the bottom of the skillet with olive oil). For carbs I’ll have three blocks worth of oatmeal and two blocks of fruit, usually blue berries and strawberries but I do mix that up according to which frozen fruit is on sale. Eating better does cost more!

You’ll note from the photo above that I also added slivered almonds, I really don’t count my fat blocks for breakfast though I do ensure I’m at least at twice the fat. Throughout the rest of the day I may measure out fat blocks but not always. I’m pretty confident I’m always between 2X and 4X fat.

So that turns into a good five block meal, I could eat more but that’s enough. I’ll admit I do add a block via glass of 1% milk from time to time but only when I’m not fully recovered from my last workout.

Oh, I can’t forget my coffee. That’s neutral on the macro-nutirent scale, I drink it black.

I think I’ll post a few more of these for lunch, snacks and supper. Amber gave me a hard time on my last photo post as the meal was far from her best creation. I agree but the point of that one was she whipped it up with non-fresh foods as we were heading away for more than a week and had not bought much… don’t want all that great food to spoil.