Episode #15 Should I Eat Breakfast Or Should I Skip It?
Today’s question of the week: I’ve heard of this idea called “intermittent fasting”.
Should you skip breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
Good question.
The easiest way is to skip breakfast. But not if you’re hungry.
This may take a bit of getting used to if you are habituated to eating in the morning.
Easiest way in my experience is to wake up and exercise (I don’t differentiate between endurance and HIIT in terms of IF, I just don’t eat. Work out as normal).
If I am hungry directly following exercise, I will eat breakfast- preferably a ketogenic breakfast like eggs, bacon, avocado and the like. I may use seafood and sometimes make salsa to go with the egg.
If not, I wait until I am hungry to eat (usually between 10:30-11:30am). I may sip a shake slowly for the next couple of hours.
Ketogenic Protein Shake: coconut oil, Whey Pro Complete (with colostrum), SP Complete, couple of raw brazil nuts, coconut milk. A few berries or other low glycemic fruit- sometimes I add raw cacao (organic).
Green Shake- good for building mitochondrial density and oxygen uptake/carrying efficiency of the blood. Ingredients: 1/3 bag organic baby kale (or regular organic kale), 1 bag of organic baby spinach, juice of 1 lemon, ½ organic apple (optional for flavor), 2-2 ½” finger of ginger, peeled and sliced. Throw into the blendtec, vitamix, nutrabullet, ninja, etc. Protein for lunch- you can add protein to this but I like it better without.
Depending on the training cycle/time of the year/the way I feel, I will make one or the other.
Sometimes I will do both eggs and the shake (usually the green one).
Benefits: eating later and exercising fasted in the morning keeps you in ketogenic (fat burning) metabolism and actually ramps it up. Great metabolic training.
Weight loss (fat loss)
Metabolic efficiency in endurance exercise.
Lower systemic inflammation (green = anti inflammatory, ginger, lemon, etc).