48/ 3 Easy Breakfasts To Keep Your Mornings Simple And Boost Your Energy

Hey Mama,

This month we're focused on optimizing our morning routines so of course I'm talking about breakfast! Specifically, 3 of my favorite easy breakfast ideas that will help you kickstart your day, keeping you energized and focused.

You can find many of my favorite recipes that I use often, here, if you use Plan to Eat, or just look up your own. 

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to episode 48. We're keeping the momentum with our morning routine theme this month.
And today I'm sharing three of my favorite easy breakfasts to allow you for
a smooth morning routine while keeping you energized and focused.
Hey Mama, welcome to Divine Design Wellness where we're putting down deep spiritual

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roots and embracing our identity in Christ through holistic health.
Do you want to love your body and feel confident in motherhood?
Are you googling quick workouts, devotionals, or time management tips?
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Do you wake up with great intentions only to find your littles take up most of your time and energy?
Hey, I'm Carolyn, holistic health and essential oils nerd.

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I too was a mama of littles. I felt like my body would never be the same and
wished I could find time for myself.
I wanted the confidence and strength to fully enjoy life with my family,
but I kept telling myself I didn't have the time, energy, or discipline to prioritize my health.
That is until I took a holistic approach to mind, body, and spirit.

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In this podcast, you will find spiritual encouragement, healthy lifestyle tips,
and quick self-care routines to build confidence in your body again.
If you're ready to see yourself the way God does and embrace your divine design,
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And in this group, there are moms just like you looking for a holistic approach
to motherhood and wellness and accountability and encouragement for the journey ahead.

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Come join us and get your morning routine adjusted or rebuilt to create that
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All month long, we have been talking about how to optimize our morning routines

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so that we can and just start our day off on the right foot with the best tools in our belts.
And of course, as busy moms, I know from experience that getting in a healthy
fueling breakfast can be hit or miss a lot of the time.

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So I want to encourage you today to really focus on making sure you are
taking care of your body with nutrition first thing in the morning,
ideally within 30 to 45 minutes of waking up.
Now, you may be thinking, there is no way in the world that I can figure out

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a meal for myself in the first 30 to 45 minutes of my day because I wake up
to babies and toddlers needing me,
my, you know, my family needing me to get them breakfast and out the door.
And so I don't even think about myself until, you know, maybe an hour or two after waking.

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Well, I want to say I get it.
I myself have found that getting breakfast in that soon in the morning has been really difficult.
It does not feel like something that naturally comes to me.
It's definitely one of those things that I have had to work on over the years.

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But what I want to encourage you to keep in mind is that as women,
our bodies are much more prone to being stressed out by not getting in the fuel we need,
especially in the morning when we've been fasting all night and all of a sudden

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we have, you know, all of the people who need us suddenly demanding all these things from us.
So it is really important as women to fuel ourselves right away in the morning,
even if it is just a small amount.
Now, if you find yourself struggling to maintain focus and energy in the middle

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of your day, or you seem to be on the verge of snapping at everyone over the
silliest things or just plain anxious and shaky,
you for sure need to consider how well you're managing your blood sugar and
getting good nutrition in that first part of the day.
Now, I know for myself, when I have not been consistent with eating breakfast regularly,

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earlier in the day, that is when I have not been consistently feeling good or
having consistent energy.
So there is a lot of reasons to prioritize fuel first thing in the morning.
Now, everyone is going to have a slightly different experience.
Everybody's body's a little bit different. But as a general rule,

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we do better with having fuel in us when we get up in the morning.
I'm not someone who is typically hungry feeling in the morning.
So that has made it harder for me, but I know it's what my body needs because I do better with food.
So that's what I'm really focusing on is just prioritizing it as part of my morning routine.

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And the biggest criteria for me is how fast and how simple I can make it.
If it is not both of those things, then chances are I'm not going to end up eating it.
Which is why today I want to share with you three breakfasts that I have found
to just be really simple,
very easy, sometimes things that I can make ahead of time and all I have to

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do is pull it out of the fridge.
And it really just makes it that much easier for me to just eat some food in
the morning even when I don't feel like it and get my day started off Just having
fuel and feeling better.
So these are three things that they're really staples in my weekly menu.

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And depending on the day of the week and what I'm doing in the morning is what
I choose for what I'm going to eat.
Now, I honestly, I love variety in eating,
but when it comes to breakfast and the fact that I just need simplicity and
ease, I actually don't mind eating the same things in the mornings.

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So if you can find something out of any three of these recipes, go ahead.
That you like, it works for you, it fits your dietary needs,
then you can just like do it all the time.
But if you're someone who needs variety, then maybe you won't be able to do that.
The first one that I have found that I really like is overnight oats.

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So if you're someone who likes oatmeal or you like parfaits or something like
that, this is really easy and it can actually be very fueling depending on what you put in it.
I personally love to do almond milk with the oats and then Greek yogurt along

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with some chia seeds and flax seeds,
raisins, some nuts or shaped almonds, and cinnamon and raisins.
And I actually, it really doesn't need hardly any sweetener.
And if I do use sweetener, I'll use just like a little bit of Lakanto or something like that.

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So this actually is a really healthy and nutritious recipe.
And it's one you can just mix up within like it takes maybe five minutes the
night before, which if you're more of a night owl like me, I'm way more motivated
to make some food at night than I am in the morning. So that works really well for me.
And you just mix it all up in a jar or whatever, throw it in your fridge.

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And when you get up in the morning, you have breakfast ready to go.
All you got to do is grab a spoon.
The second recipe that I think is really overlooked are protein bites.
So you could get on Pinterest and literally search in protein bites or energy bites.
It's kind of the same And you will find piles of recipes because there's so

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many different ways that you can make protein bites.
That could be anything from like oats with peanut butter and chocolate chips and some.
Protein powder or like chia seeds.
There's so many different varieties and combinations you could go with.
And depending on what you need, as far as like if you have, if you're not eating

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certain foods, you can find a protein bite for pretty much any style of eating.
And just getting in that protein is great.
And you can make up a batch of like, you know, 25, 30 protein bites,
and you freeze them and then depending on how many you need that you're going

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to eat throughout the week,
just pull them out at the beginning of the week and put them in the fridge and
you've got a great little protein snack that you could even take if you got
to run out the door or something,
and still be fueling your body for that first part of your morning.
Now if you are like me eat and you really try to get in a workout in the morning,

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you may not want to eat a full-on meal first thing.
I know if I eat a full-on meal and then I try to work out not very long after,
I do not feel well. It doesn't settle well.
It's just not good. And so what I like to do is have just a teeny bit of protein

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before I'm going to work out and then make sure I hydrate well.
And then as soon as I'm done working out, I will fuel really well with like
a really high protein shake.
So if you're someone who is doing more of like intense workouts in the morning,
then just even adding some kind of like complete protein to your coffee is going

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to be good enough to start like telling your body you have fuel in it,
that it doesn't need to be stressed and then being well hydrated as you go into that workout.
Out and then when you're done you can
then go make a really great
like high protein fueling protein
shake right after which is what I really like to do and it's I've gotten to

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the point where I have my cupboard right above my blender where I just keep
all of my protein shake ingredients so it's not hard I'm not like going all
over the kitchen trying to find all of my things I know
exactly where everything's at. It's right there.
And it takes hardly any time for me to whip up a really yummy,

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I actually love to do like a chocolate peanut butter espresso shake.
And it's so tasty that actually really motivates me to want to do my workout
because I know when I'm done, I get to enjoy that shake.
And it's actually really healthy. It's got quite a bit of protein.

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I actually, I add chia seeds and flax seeds and I do like a peanut butter powder.
So I'm not like going overboard on, on all the fat, but it's just a really great
way to get in a good, like well-rounded, nutritious,
high protein meal after you work out by doing a shake.

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And of course you can make whatever kind of shake you like.
There's so many things out there that you can find on making a good protein
shake that's going to fit all of your needs.
So these are just a few ideas to get you started thinking about your own morning routine.
If you are one of those busy mamas who really does struggle to fit in food first thing in the morning.

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So just keep in mind to like as much
as possible maybe make something ahead
of time or the night before or make it really quick
and simple and just making sure that you are fueling yourself for the jobs that
you are performing the things that you are demanding of your body throughout
your day now don't forget you can still come jump into our morning routine challenge

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that's going on right now in our free facebook group.
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