For the past two newsletters, we’ve been going through a concept I call “Your ideal life starts with breakfast.” You can read part one here and part two here, but basically the idea is that if we can get our meals to be as awesome as we can imagine, a lot of the rest of our lives will automagically fall into place.
As I discovered last week, it’s not as easy as it might sound. After three weeks, I only just managed to (intentionally) have my ideal breakfast for the first time yesterday morning. But you know what? I had it again today. Here’s what an ideal breakfast looks like to me:
That’s fresh pineapple (cut earlier, as per my thoughts on how to eat more raw fruits and vegetables,) with some blueberries. I eat it on a white plate at the kitchen counter (we got rid of our dining room table when we built the new kitchen) while reading blog postings and planning out my day.
What’s interesting about this meal is that it’s about as much food as my eyes can take in first thing in the morning (I have a healthy appetite but I’m usually excited to start the day so I don’t want to spend too long eating,) but it’s actually not that many calories and I seem to be finding myself hungry about 90 minutes later. That actually turns into a benefit for me, because I really want to move from three meals a day up to six or so (working from home means I don’t have a lot of excuses not to, really, but it’s still a challenge for some reason.)
As I mentioned, it took me several weeks to get into this groove. What I thought was really cool, though, was some of the feedback from newsletter subscribers and the Facebook page. A lot of you are already eating your ideal breakfast, and I found that inspiring.
Let’s share that inspiration: post a photo of your ideal meal (doesn’t have to be breakfast, but I recommend you start there) somewhere and send me a note so we can build a page of ideas for people – be sure to include the link to the photo and a brief description, both of the food and some info on how you eat it, who you eat it with, etc. If you’re using Flickr or Twitter, tag your picture with “idealmeal” so more people can find it in between updates here.
The internet means we’re not alone. Let’s leverage that and eat better than any community ever has.
Read on to see other readers’ ideal meals! (Currently 4)
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