Well, ladies
I need to be honest about something and it is embarrassing because I literally do this for a living.
I was not eating protein at breakfast.
I was eating toast. Sometimes toast with butter. Sometimes toast with peanut butter if I was feeling ambitious. On weekends maybe eggs but only if the pan was clean, which, if you have seen my kitchen, you know the odds. 😂
I tell every single client who walks into my studio that protein at breakfast matters. Thirty grams minimum. I say it with my whole chest. I hand them a little list. I watch them nod. And then I go home and eat toast like a woman who has never heard of an amino acid.
My apartment looks like a crime scene most days. There are three dead plants on my windowsill that I keep meaning to throw out. I lost my keys yesterday for forty minutes and found them in the refrigerator. I am not a person who has her life together in the areas that do not have clients watching.
Breakfast was one of those areas.
Then about a month ago a client told me she had been doing the protein thing I recommended and her 3pm crash was gone. Just gone. She said it like she was reporting a miracle. And I stood there nodding like yes obviously that is what happens, while knowing I had eaten a granola bar at 7am and was currently running on caffeine and enthusiasm.
That night I made eggs. The pan was not clean. I cleaned it. That felt like a personal breakthrough. 🙌
I have been eating thirty grams of protein before nine every morning for four weeks now. Eggs, Greek yogurt, whatever is fast. I am not cooking elaborate meals. I am not meal prepping. I am just making sure the first real thing I eat has substance.
The difference is not subtle. My energy at 2pm is different. Not wired. Not caffeinated. Just present. I am not reaching for a snack at 3 because my blood sugar is not crashing because I actually gave it something to work with in the morning.
Sonia asked me what changed and I said breakfast and she said "I thought you already did that" and I said "Sonia I found my keys in the fridge this week, please adjust your expectations." 🔥
Clare does this already. Of course she does. Clare has probably been eating exactly thirty grams of protein at exactly 6:45am for eleven years and has a spreadsheet about it. I am not Clare. I am the version of this that cleaned a pan at 9pm and called it growth.
Thirty grams. Before noon. Eggs, yogurt, whatever you will actually eat. Not toast. I am sorry about the toast. Toast is not breakfast. It is warm bread and I love it but it is not doing anything for your 3pm.
Try it tomorrow. Just once. See how the afternoon feels.
