The BEST Low Carb Breakfast For Carb Cycling!
Delicious Egg Scramble Muffins
If you aren't familiar with Carb Cycling, it's a proven and highly effective nutrition approach that involves alternating between eating days of higher amounts of carbs and days of eating lower amounts of carbs.
Carb Cycling is my go-to nutrition approach, and I do it every day and with every client I work with…
Yet, there are still many questions that surround Carb Cycling. For instance, if you have ever tried low carb dieting before, you may have experienced some negative side effect including low energy, fatigue, cravings, trouble sleeping, and more...
Well, let me be the first to assure you that Carb Cycling is very different!
In fact, our carb cycling approach will bring you tons of energy, allows you to eat lots of great carbs each week which means ZERO cravings, helps you recover faster, sleep better, burn more fat, and so much more.
Plus, carb cycling puts your body at optimal fat burning levels because of the strategic high carb days that you have throughout the week...
Now, here's quite possibly the best part about Carb Cycling:
You get to eat a lot of great tasting meals, especially on low carb day!
And today, I'd like to share with you our favorite low carb breakfast that we have almost every low carb day...
The BEST Low Carb Breakfast For Carb Cycling
Like we mentioned before, Carb Cycling does NOT need to be bland and boring...
In fact, low carb days are often times more enjoyable than high carb days because of recipes like the one below...
The key to great low carb meals is having the high in protein and healthy fats, and low in carbs. And that's exactly what you'll find in the recipe below...
"Egg Scramble Muffins"
Ingredients Needed...
6 Eggs
1 Pinch of Salt and Black Pepper
1/4 Teaspoon of Cayenne Pepper
1/4 Teaspoon of Garlic Powder
1 Handful of Baby Spinach (chopped)
1/2 Onion (chopped)
4-6 Slices of Bacon (cooked and chopped)
Grated Cheese (to place on top when finished cooking)
2 Tablespoons of Grass Fed Butter (to grease the muffin tin)
Directions...
1) Preheat the over to 350 degrees
2) Whisk the eggs, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, and garlic powder together
3) Stir in spinach, onions, and half of the bacon
4) Coat the muffin tin with butter
5) Fill each muffin tin approximately 3/4 way to the top with the egg mixture...
6) Top each muffin with bacon...
7) Bake for 20-25 minutes or until eggs are cooked through
What's amazing about this recipe, is that you can make it once and have the Egg Scramble Muffins for the rest of the week... That means you can make it on Sunday, then can wake up each morning and microwave it for a delicious fat burning, low carb breakfast!
It's recipes like these that make Carb Cycling so enjoyable, even on low carb days. Of course, there are plenty of amazing low carb breakfast meals to choose from, this just happens to be one of our favorites...
So Why Should You Cycle Your Carbs?
If you are wondering WHY you should cycle your carbs... Basically, when you carb cycle, what you are really doing is keeping your body guessing. One day you are having lower amount of carbs and the next your are shocking the body with a higher carb day.
Essentially, you are telling your body to burn fat on low carb days, then when you follow that up with a high carb day, your body gets shocked which allows for you to burn fat while maintaining your lean muscle. In short, when you carb cycle, you keep your body at optimal fat burning levels.
It's a very effective and proven process.
Now, this only scratches the surface on Carb Cycling. Which is why on the next page, I will be covering more on the exact plan that I always have my new clients start. So click the NEXT PAGE button to learn more about Carb Cycling...
