My breakfast this morning

I can't drink a shake as a meal substitute.  Never could. I need food.

My surgeon encouraged me to get onto dense proteins and not stick to yogurt and cottage cheese so much when I was relying on them heavily at a point when I'd been released to eat solids. I was grazing, eating some yogurt or cottage cheese every 90 minutes to two hours during the day, and getting all my proteins and liquids in. So I thought I was doing fine. He said I was, and if it worked for me, that was okay, but that in his experience the sooner people got back to "meal patterns" and were eating solids, the more satiated they were, and the more readily they were able to establish and learn good eating habits.

For me, what he said has worked.  Thus, here is a very typical breakfast for me:

 

1.6 oz of European ham (just my preference, bought at Whole Foods but obviously any ham would work) fried lightly in heavy skillet sprayed with Pam, just to brown a bit.  56 calories, 7 grams of protein.  I nibble it on piece at a time while I read or chat with my husband. (We both are breakfast people, what can I say?) This morning I wanted something sweet so I added 1/4 cup of greek yogurt with SF Torani syrup (coconut, my fave), which was another 33 calories and 6 grams of protein.

89 calories, 13 grams protein, easy-peasy and this sticks with me.

 

 

 

I didn't have the same breakfast, but I have the same placements and table runner!    And really, when is ham ever not a great way to start the day!

I bought those placemats at Pier One, but they have the table runner, too!  It's so warm and bright on a gray February morning, isn't it?

I'm so glad to see this. I felt like I was failing because I ate ham because it's not the leanest protein.
Thanks for the post!

Ha ha...I have the placemats!