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Atkins bars are not an ideal breakfast as they are full of unpronounceable ingredients and many find they spike blood sugar despite the name on them. Hard boiled eggs and cheese is a good breakfast and you can make the eggs in batches ahead of time. No cooking in the morning. Tea or coffee is fine just use cream instead of milk and no sugar. You can also pre-cook bacon or sausage and just grab out of the fridge. Deli meats and cheese wrapped in a bit of lettuce with some mayo is very quick and easy too. You can also look up bullet proof coffee which replaces breakfast entirely.
 
mickyjf said:
What no tea or coffee either, oh blimey. Cant be bothered to cook first thing, just wanted something to take with tablets I have to take with food when I get up. ho hum. your weight ect is brilliant, I hope I will do as well.
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Oh no I have 2 huge mugs of tea.. just no food..
 
mickyjf said:
Thanks jay-marc. I don't mind not eating them as I have noticed I have been going off them a bit, probably because im trying to cut down on the milk! Have to think of something else I don't have to cook, maybe continental hard boiled egg and cheese!
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If you are already going off them it sounds like a win-win. A German-style continental with meats, cheese and boiled eggs is good if you lay off the bread or switch to one of the low carb alternatives.
 
mickyjf said:
Are the atkins bars ok every morning, I might try them, no cooking and just so I can take tablets.
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They are actually - if you have a sweet tooth and like nuts they are tasty. I don't usually start to get the munchies until around 11am (bearing in mind I have breakfast around 6.45am), so they are quite filling. Then its just a case of making sure you fill up with water (usually still flavoured water), or a cup of coffee with Stevia sweeteners till lunch. I probably walk off any spike in sugars because I do my morning half hour walk to work after this.

If I have time I do try to have scrambled eggs and salmon for breakfast. It makes a nice change on the weekend when I have the time to do it without watching the clock!
 
For many people the sugar alcohols in atkins bars cause just a big of a spike as regular sugar would. Try testing 1 hour after you eat one.
 
A weetabix biscuit might be 13g of carb, but then there is the milk and sugar.(Who has weetabix without sugar? It tastes like cardboard!)
Test your blood glucose before breakfast and again two hours afterwards. Weetabix may not have a significant impact or it might send it soaring. Test, test, test.
Then you will know whether you can eat it.
I can't eat anything made from grains for breakfast, but if I eat yoghurt my BG drops.
 
If you want to see the actual spike you need to test at 1 hour. The 2 hour reading should be back down close to where you started.
 
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