The Best Time to Eat Breakfast? It’s Not Right When You Wake Up
The Best Time to Eat Breakfast? You’ve already got some energy in the system.”
The problem with traditional, carb-heavy breakfast foods, like cereal, toast and pastries, is that they give you “a lovely glucose spike that fuels your cells, and then you have a corresponding crash,” says Aujla. “You’re hungry [again] by mid-morning, and need coffee and other stimulants to keep yourself focused and up and running until lunchtime.” Instead, he recommends a meal high in protein and fiber—partly because we often generally skimp on protein, which we need for “longevity,” and partly because protein and fiber keep us energetic and satiated through the morning.
Aujla has a few go-to breakfasts along these lines. During the week, he relies on overnight oats that go easy on the actual oats. “I have two tablespoons of oats, two tablespoons of milled flax seed, one tablespoon of chia and one tablespoon of hemp seeds,” he says. “Then I’ll add grated apple, some pumpkin seeds, a bit of protein powder, and then water or coconut milk or whatever. Read more about it here.