Hunger is your body's way of signalling for fuel. Fuel is a mixture of calories and nutrition.

This is the time to eat foods that pack as many essential nutrients in as low calories as possible. Such as healthy fats, high-quality carbohydrates, and easily absorbable protein, for your body to use.

But hunger is also a time when your body is physically weak. Its the time when your brain is also low in energy. So you are physically and mentally not fit to make the right dietary decisions.

During this vulnerable time, it's easy to order junk food because of tongue cravings.

Eating junk food temporarily relieves hunger by providing calories. However, those calories do not carry nutrients with them. In other words those are empty calories.

So what happens when you dump a whole lot of calories without nutrients in your system? Your body starts to feel hungry again short time later.

In a fit of vulnerability, you are tempted to open your food app and order more junk food. Again, you shut down your body's hunger signals with empty calories.

The cycle repeats. The day is over, and now you are feeling guilty because you ate too much.

And food is the last thing you want to have a toxic, guilty relationship with.

So let's change that

Stop the vicious cycle

A few years back, I found myself in this vicious cycle a lot. Before I knew it, I detested the sight of food.

This was good and bad in some ways. Bad, because food is essential for life. Not eating can literally kill you.

Good, because now I hate junk food enough to make a change for myself.

That's when I started this one habit: eat a wholesome, nourishing breakfast everyday.

And that means, one healthy fat, a handful of highly bioavailable protein, and high-quality carbohydrates.

The nourish bowl that changed my life

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Start with this simple nourish bowl.

1. Make some oatmeal and set it aside.
2. Fry an egg or two. (or cook the eggs the way you like)
3. If you are a vegan you can use quinoa instead of oatmeal and it will serve as both the carbs and protein for the bowl
4. Cut up some fresh avocado for the fat
5. You can jazz up the oatmeal with this marinara-inspired salsa dish

My marinara inspired salsa

1. Chop some red onions and cloves of garlic as per your taste.
2. Dice some fresh tomatoes
3. To a saucepan heat up some extra-virgin olive oil
4. Add the chopped onions and garlic
5. Once the aromatics have softnened but not browned add the tomatoes
6. Salt
7. Tomato paste
8. 1 tsp of dried oregano
9. Cook until the tomatoes have softened, but don't squish them. Let is have the look of fresh salsa.
10. Garnish with fresh basil

Building the nourish bowl

1. Layer 1- oatmeal
2. Layer 2- marinara-inspired salsa
3. Layer 3- eggs
4. Layer 4- avocado
5. Layer 5- Spice and garnish as per your taste

Takeaway

Remember, food is a basic need of life. When you snatch the controls from your tongue and hand it to your brain, you will find the difference. Start with this nourish bowl. Try making this for breakfast everyday for 15 days. And let me know if you feel the difference.

See you again soon!