Is this breakfast reasonably healthy (new to all this)
All, I have been trying to improve my breakfast situation from no breakfast or a really crappy breakfast. Because I changed by diet and cleaned it up a bit, I no longer binge eat at night. This of course leaves me legitimately hungry in the morning.
After attempting a few different ideas and taking into account travel and other factors I have found self made smoothies fill me up.
My question is, is this a reasonably healthy meal to have in the mornings? Sometimes I also add a slice of brown toast with some natural peanut butter if I am really hungry but on average it does me right till lunch.
Smoothie consists of:
1 small banana
1 handful raspberries
1 handful blueberries
1 handful blackberries
30g Protein Powder Mix
1 small glass orange juice
2 dessert spoons live natural yoghurt
In terms of my physical make up, I am currently 17st down from 23st. I work out 6 days per week, a mix of body weight training and jogging. My goals are simply to improve my diet in line with my exercise regime. Ultimately I just want to be fit and healthy, no specific training goals or the like in mind. My previous diet consisted of pastries and other fat laden goodies that shouldn't really be eaten at all, never mind for breakfast.
To the down voter. I would have thought physical fitness and nutrition go hand in hand? While I am new to this it does seem one without the other is not a good idea?
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It's a good start but like others have mentioned, the biggest fault is that it's pretty high in carbs and particularly fast-acting carbs (fructose, despite being from "healthy" fruit, is the worst in this regard).
My suggestion would be toss the orange juice. It's the worst offender to the above point and won't fill you up at all since there's very little or no fiber. Next to go would be the banana but it's not bad (the berries are quite nutrient and fiber dense and don't have as much sugar either). To make it more filling, add some fats. The PB isn't a bad idea, you could also consider adding coconut oil (my personal recommendation) or, if your yogurt is full-fat (I recommend it always should be) then have some more of it.
In my opinion, remove many kinds of fruits but just choose a couple of them, and take extra carbs in your breakfast. You can eat normal oatmeal or your can easily cook a porridge if you have the opportunity, which I always eat with proteins in my breakfast.
There is an article about taking low carbs in breakfast, which is not a good thing to do for either of muscle gain and weight loss:
Researchers have found a possible way to overcome the common problem
of dieters eventually abandoning their diet and regaining the weight
they lost. Eat a big breakfast packed with carbohydrates and protein,
then follow a low-carb, low-calorie diet the rest of the day, the
authors of a new study recommend.
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