Healthy Breakfast Ideas For Weight Loss

The best healthy breakfasts for weight loss contain the most satiating foods, these breakfasts are not only delicious, they will keep you feeling fuller for longer.

This is the female lifter's secret to avoiding mid morning snacking and staying lean. When you start your day with a healthy breakfast that supports fat loss, you won’t even be thinking about elevenses (that’s a mid morning snack if you don’t know)

As you will learn from this article, some of the healthiest breakfast foods also happen to be high protein foods. That’s because your body metabolises protein at a slower rate than it does fats and carbs.

Don’t worry, your healthy breakfast should still include fats and carbs, in fact, a breakfast geared for fat loss has a good balance of all 3 macronutrients and as many micronutrients you can also get in.

Healthy Breakfast Ideas For Weight Loss Contents

Eggs

Meats

Cottage Cheese

Greek Yogurt

Oats

Fruit

Nuts

A Creative Breakfast Is A Healthy Breakfast

Healthy Lunch Ideas

Eggs

Eggs are an excellent way to start your day, you can fry, boil, scramble, poach, bake, or make an omelette.

You can have your eggs as they are, or combine with lean bacon, sausages, or any lean meat—”breakfast foods” are a thing of the western world, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with having chicken, meat or even a steak for breakfast… More on that further down.

Back to your eggy breakfast, add a source of healthy fat, like avocado or some cheese (careful on the portion size). Check out these high protein cheeses.

And then add a carb, this can be a small slice of toast, some sweet potato or even homemade hash browns.

You don’t need to have a massive portion, batch cook a few days of your healthy breakfast foods at a time and just throw together as much as you like in the morning. Even if it’s just a little bit of everything.

Another good option is to put it all in a wrap, then when breakfast time comes around you’ve got a grab and go healthy breakfast to support your weight loss goals.

Meats

This can be lean bacon, sausages or any lean meat of your liking.

As mentioned above, breakfast foods don’t need to be what the western world defines as breakfast foods.

Have you ever had a breakfast burger? Or a breakfast burrito?

Much healthier, and much more satiating than a croissant and a cuppa-frappa-sugar-laced-latte.

To be clear; we’re talking about a home-made breakfast burger/burrito, made from whole single ingredient foods. (sorry, this isn’t a sign to stop off at McDonald’s and try to pass that off as a healthy breakfast for your weight loss journey).

Combine your breakfast meat of choice with eggs for more protein (if you like), cheese for a combination of protein and fat, half an avocado maybe?

Then add a carb.

Think about mixing in some healthier carbs for breakfast, ones that also provide micronutrients, like vegetables, sweet potatoes, peppers and also fruit; an apple, an orange, banana, berries, or your favourite exotic fruits—consider this your breakfast “dessert”.

Cottage Cheese

Cheese has already been mentioned, but cottage cheese deserves a special mention, because it is a long standing fat loss secret amongst female bodybuilders.

Combine cottage cheese with eggs or serve with your lean meats.

If you want something lighter, chop some fresh herbs and add salt and pepper if you prefer a savoury taste. For the sweet lovers, add some fresh pineapple, or other fresh fruit chopped up small and enjoy!

Greek Yogurt

Greek yogurt is another excellent breakfast choice for fat loss, it’s high in protein and very satiating.

Mix with berries, fruit and nuts, drizzle some honey on top and you’ve got yourself a light, weight loss breakfast that contains a protein, a fat and a carbohydrate.

Oats

When it comes to weight loss, oats are another healthy breakfast choice. They’re lower in calories than the majority of traditional breakfast foods, they’re high in fibre and while we wouldn’t consider them a protein source, they do contain some protein.

Breakfast oats can be made up any way you like, add chia seeds for density, fruit for sweetness and nuts for a source of fat and protein—this will help to keep you fuller for longer.

Check out these healthy oat recipes.

Fruit

When it comes to losing weight, fruit is the perfect way to enjoy a sweet taste while also getting in your vital micronutrients. Many fruits are also very hydrating.

While fruit is most definitely considered a healthy breakfast, and you absolutely can lose fat by adding fruit to your breakfast, but try to avoid making it your entire breakfast.

So, no grabbing a banana on the way out the door and calling it a healthy breakfast. That’s not going to keep you satiated until lunch time, is it?

Fruit should be part of your breakfast, consider it the carb of your breakfast, it can even be the fat in your breakfast, avocados, coconut, and even olives are excellent fat sources and they will contribute towards helping you to lose fat.

Make sure you have some protein too, in fact, base your breakfast around the protein source and consider the fruit an add on.

Nuts

Nuts are technically fruits, but for the purpose of clarity this has been listed separately. Nuts are a healthy and satiating source of fat, they also contain protein.

For a healthy breakfast you can add nuts to oats or yogurt, or you have to reach for a healthy nut butter and spread that over some whole grain toast.

A Creative Breakfast Is A Healthy Breakfast

By far, the best thing you can do for yourself if you want to lose body fat is learn how to prepare healthy breakfasts from whole single ingredients.

Build your healthy breakfast around the food groups suggested in this article, you don’t need to include all of them all the time, and you don’t need to have big portions.

Having a breakfast that contains a protein, fat and carb, while also getting in some essential micronutrients with fruits and vegetables is what’s going to keep you satiated, stop you snacking and help you lose weight long term.

If you find that you don’t have much of an appetite in the morning, don’t force yourself to eat, just wait until you are hungry, then eat your healthy breakfast—”breakfast time” is also something we humans made up. Eat when you’re hungry and eat well.

If you don’t have time in the morning to prepare a healthy breakfast, batch prepare some healthy breakfasts that you can grab out of the fridge and go. Breakfast burritos or overnight oats are excellent for this.

Healthy Lunch Ideas

Looking for a healthy lunch? Check out these healthy lunch ideas for weight loss.