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Seems to be the hardest to keep interesting on the MANS diet. Get sick of eggs all the time. Anyone have good low carb suggestions for easy breakfast? Would be great if it is something prepared ahead. I try to stay away from the bacon and fats because of heart issues.

ktsteel wrote: I try to stay away from the bacon and fats because of heart issues.

That right there makes absolutely no sense

anyways you could try having dinner for breakfast

Hmm,how can you do MANS and stay away from fat?

ktsteel wrote:Seems to be the hardest to keep interesting on the MANS diet. Get sick of eggs all the time. Anyone have good low carb suggestions for easy breakfast? Would be great if it is something prepared ahead. I try to stay away from the bacon and fats because of heart issues.

Agreed that the bacon and fats thing is bogus. Low carb combined with low fat is a recipe for disaster. Your calories have to come from somewhere, and if you eat too much protein, your body can convert what it doesn't need for tissue repair into blood glucose, thus defeating the purpose of cutting your carbs. Eat fat!

However, here are some ideas.

1. Spinach smoothie with avocado, nut butter, pumpkin, berries, almond milk, soy milk, sugar-free flavored syrups, in whatever combo suits you. (I eat this before I eat breakfast every single day, and I miss it when I travel and can't get one!)
2. Tofu, banana extract or cocoa, your favorite sweetener, and avocado, butter, coconut oil or nut butter blended into a banana creme or chocolate pudding.
3. Flax meal hot cereal with nut butter.
4. Soy protein pancakes.
5. Flax or nut meal muffins.
6. Steak and cheese quesadilla made on low carb tortilla.
7. Bacon, mushroom, and greens hash with just a bit of peppers and onions.
8. Rhubarb fool with heavy whipping cream.

So there are at least 8 ideas I came up with off the top of my head, with nary an egg in sight. Your imagination is your only limit, really.

I had some chicken breast for breakfast. I'm trying to train my body that food is simply fuel, not a passion. It's hard to persuade myself sometimes!

So basically any food that you might eat any other meal will qualify for breakfast. I like to mix up some spinach or broccoli with my meats, sautéed vegetables with whatever, that kind of thing. Having a week's worth of meats fully prepared & cooked in my refrigerator makes the decisions MUCH easier!

Lastly, I have to dispel a common fallacy. If you are obese, you may temporarily* raise your cholesterol when you first start low-carbing. This is a healthy thing because your body is dumping body fat into your bloodstream for use by your organs, and you're urinating quite a lot out! You must eat plenty of dietary fat when you're low-carbing. Only if you are very, very lean should you even consider dropping your daily fat intake below 100g per day**. Typical normal-body-fat or high-body-fat males should be eating something more like 200g of fat per day or more.

The huge drop in triglycerides and LDL, with a commensurate rise in HDL, that most people experience on low-carb so far overshadows the whole "saturated fat debate" as to make it utterly irrelevant. You must ingest a certain minimum of protein, so that's really not a variable, therefore "low carb" is exactly equivalent to "high fat". A high fat, low carbohydrate diet will have a remarkably salutary effect on your blood lipid profile after a few months, and Dr. Atkins originally developed his diet to treat cardiac patients.

--Matt B.

* Usually lasts less than a month, but for the severely obese this higher-cholesterol condition may last up to three months.
** For an average person; if you are 90lbs soaking wet, you'll need to adjust things downward, of course, and if you are seven feet tall you'll need to adjust it upward.