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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtkinsMo" data-source="post: 1344380" data-attributes="member: 104933">That's good going [USER=355878]@Resurgam[/USER], well done.  As an egg lover, I can always eat eggs for breakfast in one way or another, we tend to rotate between full English (as pictured, usually on Sundays) omelettes with various flavourings, smoked haddock and poached eggs and smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.  For about a week I thought it strange to have any of these without bread, but now I wouldn't thank you for bread of any description, ever.  Well, I make one exception, we go to a fabulous little restaurant up in the mountains near where we live in Spain where the chef makes the most fabulous olive bread, and we usually share a roll with dinner when we go up, once a year.  But for people who are not egg lovers and are accustomed to cereals, toast, porridge etc, breakfast isn't generally the meal that's hardest to adjust to.  For me, first starting Atkins, since a full English had always been a rare treat, we loved breakfast right from day one.  But one piece of advice for people short of time or those who do not like eggs, in particular, is leftover dinner.  What makes breakfast so different?  It's just another time to provide your body with the nourishment it needs.We don't usually have lunch, generally full up till evening time, and if we need a snack it's pork scratching or nuts.  I 'roast' my own nuts as I don't like the artificial oils that commercially roasted nuts are cooked in, I put them in a frying pan with a knob of coconut oil and a good measure of natural unrefined sea salt and they are gorgeous, but most days we don't have a snack.  Dinners are any old meat, fish, with either a large salad or a variety of green veg.  I use cauliflower to sub potatoes, both as mash, rice and ring the changes with sauces or herbs or spices and at least one other above ground leafy veg.  We have root vegetables occasionally, maybe once a fortnight in stews in a winter.  We never have any processed food of any description, we just eat good real food.It's really easy, including eating out.  When we eat out I don't stress too much about what's in the sauce - but now 'fully adapted' so with no sweet tooth and no carb requirement, we naturally don't choose 'bad food' - it's easy.  We ask for an alternative for potatoes, rice or whatever and if all that's on offer is a salad, that's fine.  I am often mystified why people cling to favourite old foods that have the potential for making them sick, when the alternative is tasty, super nourishing and satisfying.What a great start you've made,  if ever you want any tips from an 'Atkins Old Timer', just shout.</blockquote>

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