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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Eggs & A Cup of Coffee

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Danielle Da Silva
2530 days ago
20180808

Eggs are one of the best break­fast op­tions around and they're con­sumed world­wide as the first meal of the day. Not on­ly are the very in ex­pen­sive, but they're very easy to bulk up for an en­tire meal. Eggs are quick and easy to make and you can get as ex­per­i­men­tal as you'd wish.

Many go for the con­ven­tion­al scram­bled or sun­ny side up be­cause of the lit­tle time they take to make and con­sume, but if you spend just five more min­utes you can get a nu­tri­ent rich meal that can leave you feel­ing full for hours. An omelets is the num­ber one way to in­cor­po­rate many dif­fer­ent in­gre­di­ents in­to your break­fast, here are a few ways to bulk it up:

Add More Veg­eta­bles to Your Omelet

If you're look­ing to add more fiber, vi­t­a­mins and min­er­als to you break­fast, veg­eta­bles are the way to do it. Car­rots, broc­coli, toma­toes and spinach are com­mon in­gre­di­ents added to your omelet to make it more fill­ing and nu­tri­tious.

Add More Pro­tein

This one is for any­one on a steady work­out rou­tine, and any­one who isn't. Pro­tein is a key in­gre­di­ent in your di­et and if you're think­ing of start­ing a steady regime, then in­creas­ing your pro­tein in­take is some­thing nec­es­sary. Pro­tein aids in weight loss, can help with gain­ing mus­cle mass, and can help you stay fuller for longer, which is why adding more pro­tein to your omelet can help a great deal. Try adding in­gre­di­ents like mush­rooms or quinoa or even a source of an­i­mal pro­tein!

Sub­sti­tute Your Oils

Try sub­sti­tut­ing but­ter and veg­etable oil to cook your omelet, with co­conut oil, mus­tard oil or olive oil. Veg­etable oil and but­ter con­tain un­nec­es­sary un­healthy fats that your body does not need but if you must use it, try lim­it­ing the amount.

Use Health­i­er Meats and Cheeses

Try to avoid us­ing high­ly processed cheese in your omelet, op­tions like fe­ta and cot­tage cheese can be healthy sources of pro­tein and cal­ci­um. When go­ing for a meat op­tion, push the ba­con bits and red meat aside, go for boiled and shred­ded chick­en or even turkey to bulk up your meal.

Cof­fee: How should you drink it?

Many peo­ple strug­gle with ful­ly 'wak­ing up' on a morn­ing, you're awake but more or less un­aware of the world un­til you get to the bot­tom of that first cup of cof­fee.

Load­ing up your morn­ing rou­tine with the gen­er­al cup of cof­fee and adding milk and sug­ar may not keep up with your health and fit­ness goals. You'll find your­self adding a few ex­tra, un­want­ed calo­ries in that morn­ing pick me up. If you're torn be­tween tak­ing it away com­plete­ly or adding some­thing that may not taste as good, Ke­to­genic cof­fee may be the an­swer to your prayers.

The rule of a ke­to­genic di­et is pret­ty sim­ple; you con­sume less carbs and more healthy fats. So how does this re­late to cof­fee? Well, it's pret­ty sim­ple; it is a plain black cof­fee with the ad­di­tion­al healthy fats of grass-fed but­ter and medi­um-chain triglyc­eride (MCT) co­conut oil. This cof­fee is known main­ly for it's in­stant en­er­gy boost­ing prop­er­ties, but doesn't fall short of oth­er health ben­e­fits, here are a few:

Pro­motes weight loss

Ke­to­genic cof­fee has a way of sup­press­ing ap­petite; it's loaded with healthy fats that can keep you fuller for longer. This cof­fee takes your body in­to a state of ke­to­sis, mean­ing that all of the fat­ty acids are bro­ken in­to ke­tone bod­ies. These ke­tone bod­ies are more ef­fi­cient at fu­el­ing your body with en­er­gy then glu­cose. The body will now burn the stores fats in your body due to the ab­sence of glu­cose.

Grass fed but­ter

This sim­ple in­gre­di­ent has more ben­e­fits that you may be­lieve, and it makes this cup of cof­fee creamy and de­li­cious. Grass-fed but­ter is very high in Omega 3 fat­ty acids, al­so con­tain­ing be­ta-carotene, an­tiox­i­dants and a num­ber of vi­t­a­mins. Help­ing you to store mus­cle in­stead of fat, this tasty in­gre­di­ent is al­so high in CLA, which is the fat­ty acid that pro­motes this ac­tion.

Medi­um-chain triglyc­eride co­conut oil

MCT, mean­ing that this type of co­conut oil con­tains medi­um-chain triglyc­erides, boosts your meta­bol­ic rate and pro­vides quick and easy en­er­gy for your body and brain. This type of oil can al­so be ben­e­fi­cial for the fat burn­ing prop­er­ties pre­vi­ous­ly dis­cussed. MCT sup­press­es the ac­tion of ghre­lin, which is the hor­mone that makes you feel hun­gry.

This type of cof­fee may not be for every­one, but it's def­i­nite­ly worth a try. To make it the in­struc­tions are fair­ly sim­ply, brew you cof­fee whichev­er way you usu­al­ly would, then add 1 ta­ble­spoon of grass-fed but­ter and start with 1 ta­ble­spoon of MCT co­conut oil. This mix­ture and the co­conut oil, is some­thing your body needs to ad­just to. If you start to heavy on the co­conut oil, you may end up spend­ing a con­sid­er­able amount of time in the bath­room af­ter your first cup, so do not go to heavy on the oil.

Take the mix­ture you now have a put it in­to a blender and blend un­til frothy. Be cau­tious when blend­ing a hot mix­ture, you would not want to get burnt. Once it's nice and frothed, serve in a mug and en­joy!


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