Salmon with pepper is nice in the mornings, sounds strange but is quite tasty. Make a lean steak and egg breakfast, or throw a pork chop on in. Chicken breast omelets with your favorite veggies go a long way. Try to get away from your typical thinking of "Breakfast foods" and use breakfast as what it is named for. To break the fast from your sleep. Last nights supper is always good early morning in the fry pan. I don't think I have found anything that is not better re heated in the skillet and chopped up in the early hours of the day.

No offense, however, I got to tell you bro, I will eat any kind of offal, but the image of a Chicken breast omelet makes me want blast chunks. It's a sort of mother and child reunion.

It's really quick and easy to scramble up some eggs and slice up an avocado (or some home made guac from the night before). That's my usual go - to breakfast if I get up with more than 5 minutes to get out the door.

i was wondering the same thing 50g of protein is a hellofalot of protein first thing in the morning... anyone think of just a protein powder(dunno if it is drKurse appvd...) with coconut milk?

i tried to down 50g of protein this morning and it was an epic fail and bloating episode. is there harm in putting it off until youre hungry?

I have been considering whether to jump on this particular bandwagon, but so far there is no evidence provided that supports forcing that amount of protein at that time.

I agree that there's plenty of evidence from other sites that increasing protein and fat (not necessarily in that order) will help with leptin sensitivity. However, I thought that the 'eat breakfast' argument had been pretty well debunked in terms of its role in metabolism. I guess if I was heading off to do surgery all day, or to some other job that meant high concentration, high stamina and limited access to good food then I'd eat like that first thing. In fact, if I'm heading into that kind of day, I do force a good breakfast. But I'm spending my day marking essays within an easy walk of my own kitchen. Why would I stuff myself with food that my body is going to struggle to digest today??

This from the comments section of part 3:

"Why do you want to rise and eat that protein so quick? The food effects the gut’s incretin system to stimulate PYY which immediately sends messages to the hypothalamus that you just ate high quality chow and we don’t need to eat again for a while. So it in essence it shuts of all hunger signals (arcuate nucleus) and craving signals (NPY). It also helps shut off morning cortisol which sensitizes the liver to perform when fuel stores do get lower later…….in english this means you can go longer on the food you ate with out feeding again. Your liver is able to distribute its stored calories when you need them……and this ultimately results in less calories eaten and you have no hunger or cravings to boot. This sounds like an obese persons dream but I can tell you this is precisely the mechanism of how a paleolithic diet works to shred fat and weight. The more protein and fat you eat the less calories your brain will crave and drive your behavior to graze. Next real bonus then occurs……this allows you to stretch your meals sometimes to once or twice a day. When you eat a calorie reduced diet without hunger or cravings……this is called intermittent fasting (IF). We are biologically wired for this because in paleo times we did not have 24/7 access to Costco’s. And IF increases a cellular process called autophagy that increases our lifespan by recycling our cells and keeping our cardiac stem cells from being used up! Moreover, eating meat early in AM (bacon) provides us with a nutrient called carnosine which has also been shown to increase our telomere length. Anything that increases our telomere length increases our survival too. This is the great circle of life. Paleo is not a faileo diet. Eat meat and eat it as soon as you rise. Im very strict about my timing of meals……the food itself just needs to follow paleo dietary pillars. you mentioned your heart……….IF stimulates autophagy to save your heart cells from getting taken out! The Circle of life is now complete"

How is this argument any different from the paleo argument? I'd really like to hear from people who followed the science and found this change (to large amounts of protein first thing in the morning) to be compelling. I just don't at this point.

I am certain that this will be appetizing to no one but me.

4 eggs

1 can sardines

2 sheets nori

generous glob of wasabi

Scramble egg whites, cook, turn off heat, add yolks and mix through, add sardines and mush them right in there. Take that goop and roll in up in the nori. Dip in the wasabi until your nostrils catch fire. Bite, chew well, swallow.

Actually, I am able to eat half of this and now I'm so stuffed I can barely walk. I guess I'll have to work towards eating the whole mess.

I never want any protein first thing in the morning. Bleargh.

I usually start my day with cream, fruit, and more cream. Then 3 eggs with lots of butter when I've been up for a few hours.

Try the eggs in different forms. Poached over spinach, sunny-side up over leftover meat, hard-boiled egg on the go, deviled eggs, the list goes on and on. Just did an "egg house" that was literally tomato baking in the oven with an egg inside. So good and simple! Pop it in the oven, take your morning shower, and by the time you are out, you have breakfast!