(note: if you want to start a low-carb diet yourself, I recommend reading why: Why We Get Fat (including a simple how — and it’s the “how” I’m doing) and how: New Atkins.)
Each morning, I wake up to feed my cats, my wife, and myself. During the school year it’s 4:20 AM, and during the summer it’s 5:45 AM. I prepare all the meals this early in the morning.
Breakfast is pretty normal on my low-carb diet:
- 2 (usually) or 3 Eggs
- I fry them in leftover bacon grease (I get salt here instead of the recommended bullion).
- I prefer over-easy (or over-medium, if that exists?) to sunny-side up.
- If they’re scrambled, I put in a handful of cheese. I tend to let them cook like an omelet, but don’t fill them. I sometimes put in bell pepper, tomato, and olives (green or black) for variety.
- I sometimes make a proper omelet using the ingredients available (meat, cheese, veggies).
- I sometimes put a spoonful or two of Pace medium salsa. It’s almost cheating, but it’s pretty darn low in carbs, and the carbs are from veggies.
- I like to have bacon, breakfast sausage (usually turkey), or other meat as a side.
- Tobasco is great to spice things up.
- Water.
My whole life, water has been my beverage of choice. Though I do miss orange juice with my breakfast.
