High protein, low(er) carb breakfast for busy girl?

You can still eat yogurt - just look for low sugar ones. I make breaksfast on Sunday's for the week - scrambled eggs - just make them a little runny and reheat. You can do egg bakes - any time of veggies, sauteed, add eggs and bake - this time of year, they are great with tomatoes sliced on top and a sprinkle of parm cheese. You can bake eggs in muffin tins with canadian bacon and they freeze well. Good luck.

yesterday's breakfast was 1% lactaid cottage cheese with 1/2 cup cantalope balls (prepared nite before) and 1/2 banana w/ a dollop of Sirrachi sauce. Really tasty. Today is 2 eggs over sautéed kaylettes prepared the night before (these are hybrid of kale and broccoli and fabulous) -- took less than 10 minutes while I blow dried my hair. Also like plain greek yogurt with plain vanilla stirred in (no sugar) with mixed fresh berries.

I have the same issue although not medically diagnosed. I use to buy bakery bagels all the time and never put it together that it was high carbs causing my day long low sugar feeling issues

Nowadays I love plain Greek yogurt with pistachios and a touch of honey paired with 1 slice of wheat toast and 1/2 TB peanut butter. It fuels me well when I don't eat eggs. I also love roasted sweet potatoes in place of bread-carbs paired with egg whites + 1 whole egg.

Basically anytime I have a carb I have some protein/fat with it. Edited to add...i also avoid cereal in the morning. I only eat Kashi go lean as its high in fiber and protein but it doesn't keep me full long in the morning. Rather I eat it at night with almond milk and it doesn't bother me. Hypoglycemia is weird sometimes!!

egg, egg and more egg, meat, chicken, turkey breast, ham, omelette with egg, spinach and ham, plain yoghurt with protein powder mixed in it (yum), cottage cheese.... smoked salmon.... yuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmm and easy as to prepare.

I would switch to LCHF or keto then. I fry up 4-10 oz of bacon non sugar cured ( 0gms of carbs), 2-3 eggs cooked in bacon grease/ heavy whipping cream depending on hunger (0-2 gms of carbs), and cheese ( 0 carbs). Breakfast and lunch are my biggest meals so I eat most of my calories there.

On Sunday: Get a muffin tin. Around the side of each cup, lay a slice of bacon. In a bowl, mix either about 8 eggs, or the equivalent in Egg Beaters. Add some chopped veggies (asparagus, peppers, mushrooms, spinach, whatever; some veggies you might want to blanche first. Add some shredded cheese or crumbled feta cheese. Mix well. Pour into the muffin tin, taking care to keep that slice of bacon (turkey bacon works too) on the outside rim of each cup.

Bake for, I don't remember, 20 minutes, maybe a half-hour, at 350 until done. You'll know it's done by how springy it is.

Let cool. Put each one in a separate baggie and freeze some, keep a few others in the fridge. In the morning, pull one out, zap it in the microwave for 2 minutes. Voila.

Protein, limited carbs, breakfast in 2 minutes. Top with avocado, salsa....or just grab and go.

Right now I'm into eating cottage cheese wrapped around turkey breast slices with chopped tomatoes and cucumbers. Washed down with tea. It's unbelievably filling.

megbee617 wrote: »

Anyway, my Dr suggested taking on a low(er) carb diet, but its hard because EVERYTHING is a carb! (Que Mean Girls quote here). Usually my breakfast is a fiber one english muffin w/ PB or avocado or some type of bran cereal with either apple or banana. But these are all carbs and I can't think of any food other than eggs that's high-protein low-carb. Even yogurt is pretty high in the carb dept.

You'll get into the swing of avoiding carbs for breakfast, lunch, and snacks.

In the meantime... switch yogurts. Plain Greek yogurt (check the nutrition label carefully, there are some faux "greek style" yogurts out there) will have between 14 to 21g (most around 15-17g) protein in 150-175g (up to 3/4 cup) of yogurt but only minimal carbs (6g - 8g). The flavoured types will have much more sugar. Fat free flavoured yogurts often have a ton of carbs.

Don't be afraid of full fat products. I'd rather have some dairy fat providing calories than additional sugar in my yogurt so I routinely buy 2% Greek but will buy 5% if I can find it. Unfortunately many groceries simply stock 0% types because that's what the public think they need.

Berries might not spike your blood sugar; I have fresh or frozen blueberries most every morning. A handful of almonds rounds out my breakfast. All three together - 250 to 300 calories depending on portion size. I find this carries me through the morning (with a good coffee, black or with a hint of half and half).

Frying up 2 eggs takes no time. I prefer to make mine an omelette which adds a few minutes and another dish.

Forgetting the notion of "breakfast" foods is a great idea. I'll often have a slice of last night's roast or whatever is left over and a slice of cheese. I have bread-less sandwiches all the time.

And so on.

Why waste all those nice yolks?

Cottage cheese or plain yogurt with sliced almonds.
Ham with cucumbers and carrots.
The night before you can cook things like this to heat up in the morning:
Small hamburger with cheese (no bun).
Chicken breast with tomatoes and spinach.

I'm also reactive hypoglycemic. Some gotos are breakfast casserole (usually eggs, goat/feta cheese, mushrooms, onions, bell pepper, turkey breakfast sausage, and asparagus) which I make in huge batches and then freeze, protein powder and a spoonful of peanut butter (not for everyone, but this is my lazy breakfast), and I've even done things like a salad topped with chicken, cheese, and veggies (not an on the go breakfast).

I now mostly skip breakfast and just have coffee until around 10-11am when I have a protein shake. You're just going to need to find what works for you.

Eliminating breakfast carbs solved this for me. Fat has no insulin spike, so fat with some protein fixed this. Fried or scrambled eggs can be pretty quick to make. Using real cream in tea or coffee can also provide 'breakfast' - two ounces of heavy cream is 240 cal and 24 gr of fat and will not spike insulin at all.

Once you develop a routine cooking simple eggs they are very fast.

I could never eat breakfast regulary before due to (even with low GI carbs) the
wicked crashing by 11am.