This looks weird (my submissions/posts) but truth be told breakfast foods are really really bad fo...
I used to regularly consume eggs, sausage, bacon, butter, some style of bread product (bagel, toast, muffin, pancake, etc.)and dairy....not all at once and not for each and every breakfast.....but pretty damn often, especially on the run as it was handed to me through my car window, and most often served on a big fat biscuit with an incredibly greasy side of hash browns of some sort.
I thought my friend who helped with my plant-based lifestyle changes was nuts when she suggested not eating after 8pm and then not eating solid food again until lunch time or later. I was sure I'd die of starvation at some point based on how I'd been taught to eat previously. lol But, look!! I made it!!! Hahahaha!
Big breakfasts have always been rather aggressively taught in my life by various authority and academic figures and such as being
the main fuel source for the day and I was often reminded that I couldn't afford an empty tank. So I'd shovel it in like the good little consumer I was taught to be.
But once I became more readily aware of my rapidly increasing symptoms after paying much closer attention to what I was consuming and using on and around my being, I began to notice that not too long after breakfast (and pretty much every meal) I felt like I needed a nap, and was always
really hungry again well before the next snack or meal.
Learning about what those belly growls really were that I had always assumed were simply "hunger pangs" indicating I better hurry up and eat something was quite an eye opener, too.
It took a while to get used to it, as does any drastic change, and it was anything but easy, but it sure changed the flow of energy within my days once I finally figured it out based on my particular needs. It changed the flow of how well things are eliminated, too, with the initial process being rather active, to say the least. lol Even the elimination processes have become more pleasant. Who knew?
Break-fast upon my rising is now all about initial nurturing hydration (juices, smoothies, lemon water, herbal infusions, filtered water, greatorade), unlike what I used to consider hydration (coffee, teas, sodas, milk, energy drinks, gatorade), and then around 11ish or later, I'll have either a large portion of a favorite fruit, a couple bananas on some romaine lettuce "boats" with some nut butter drizzled with a little date syrup, some frozen banana nice cream, foraged berries and other fruits during the seasons, once in a while some g/f oatmeal made with almond milk and fruit, etc.
I stay full much longer now and don't require as many snacks. Unless it's a day I've been repeatedly bombarded and triggered by what tempts me the most from my past and that my taste buds remain attached to. It ain't easy no longer being cheesey, I tell ya'. lol But most things can be tastily "veganized", so it's still all good, just not nearly as convenient. Dammit. lol
