Good morning, and happy spring! I’m so excited for warm weather — we’ve had a good couple weeks where it’s been a dozen or so degrees above average…and I’m not hating it.

From a Saturday hike with two of my girlfriends, and my friend’s service dog — it was such a lovely day!

As you likely know, nutrient timing is a big focus in my diet and my clients in order to burn or maintain bodyfat, and to feel our best.

I start my morning most days with a breakfast lower in carbohydrates, depending on my goals, training, and a couple other factors.

In my LB boot camp, and with my clients, we share so many different recipes in order to time our protein, fat, and carbohydrates appropriately. Initially, the meal that’s most perplexing is breakfast — when it needs to be lower in carbs.

For those of you working with me — or if you’re just a reader looking for low carb breakfast ideas — I thought I’d share my five go-to’s.

My Top 5 Healthy Low Carb Breakfasts

A few of these I’ve shared before, but I thought it’d be helpful to have some of my favorite healthy low carb breakfasts all in one spot.

The following are in no particular order, but are all regulars at my breakfast table. In fact, if you follow me on Instagram stories, I snap my breakfasts quite a bit – and you probably recognize these as the regulars. These all keep me full for a good 4-6 hours, provide energy throughout the morning, and keep my mental focus sharp.

Here  we go!

1. Chili ‘n Eggs

This meal actually happened on accident. I was running late for my 7a clients one morning, and all I had time to do was scramble up some eggs real quick like. I like eggs, but I like them more when they’re jazzed up (otherwise, eggs make a perfectly perfect low carb breakfast on their own as well.)

I’d also made bison chili the night before, and made the executive decision to heat ’em up and throw them on top of the eggs. One of my best decisions made before 7:00 AM ever.

2. Low Carb Breakfast Sandwich

I have an entire blog post dedicated to this sandwich. Well, mostly the bun. It takes :75 to make (well, more like 2:00 when you add mixing it together,) and it’s so buttery and delicious.

Recipe, copy and pasted from the original blog post:

Low Carb Breakfast Sandwich Recipe

8g. coconut oil, melted

15g. almond flour

1 egg

2g. baking powder

desired herbs and seasonings (I like S&P and thyme)

100g. egg whites

2 pieces turkey bacon

Mix together the oil, almond flour, egg, baking powder, and seasonings in a small bowl, and microwave it for :60-:90. While it cools, cook up the egg whites and turkey bacon as desired (sometimes I do stove, sometimes microwave because #inahurry.) Slice the bun in half with a serrated knife, and build your sammie!

You can find the macros here.

3. Bison ‘Sausage’ Scramble

Oh man. If you were my client at all in 2016, you know I had this for breakfast every. single. morning. I also turned many of my clients onto eating bison for breakfast, and use this seasoning. I’ve also shared this before in this post, but I’ll recap here.

Bison is awesome in the morning, because it’s a lean red meat that gives a big hit of L-carnatine. Good for the brain powerz.

As far as ingredients go, I generally cook about 3 servings to reheat and eat throughout the week. Each time I use a different ratio of bison to eggs to egg whites to veggies, but I always use the breakfast sausage seasoning. 

4. Low Carb Pumpkin Pancake

This is a fairly new one, but I did send out the recipe to all of my newsletter subscribers last month. It’s yummy, made with whole ingredients, and is pretty low in carbs. It’s a great change up if you’re wanting something sweet for breakfast, but also wanting to keep carbs lower.

Ingredients:

1/4 c. pumpkin puree

2 eggs

2 egg whites

dash of stevia

1.5 T. coconut flour OR protein powder (a casein/whey blend works best)

Preheat a skillet to medium and spray with nonstick spray. Mix together all of the ingredients. Pour out enough for 1 thick pancake, and spread out the batter. Cover the skillet, and let it cook for about 2-3 minutes. Flip, press down, and cook for another 1-2 minutes. Then it’s time for toppings.

Toppings

Some of my clients top with sugar free syrup, but I’ve really been loving an old go-to pancake topper:

Greek yogurt + almond butter + a wee bit o stevia

1/2 c. nonfat GY + 1 T. almond butter (Justin’s maple is the way to go) + stevia to taste. Mix together with a fork, and top it off.

And pictured above, is just a little coconut butter.

5. Buffalo Chicken Egg Bites

Finally, some egg muffins are making the list. But I’m a pretty big critique of egg muffins, so they’ve got to be tasty – and these certainly are. I can’t take credit for this recipe, but I can say I’ve made these multiple times, and they’re delicious! I did tweak the recipe a wee bit (basically I added egg whites to make more servings,) and pairing two or three with some veggies kept me full ALL morning long. Highly recommend you add this recipe to your next round of meal prep.

What’s your usual breakfast consist of? What’s your favorite meal of the day??