Hi Maggie,

Good for figuring out how much protein you need for breakfast!

The idea of 'just doing breakfast' is for breathing room, to let new habits settle, and to give time to figure out how to deal with things like having a rushed day and needing a different option, or for travelling and making sure to plan ahead.

Basically, you can count breakfast a success when you have had bumps along the way, figured out how to adapt, and you are solidly certain you would just do breakfast no matter what happened, as a 'life preserver', a hold-steady, a part of who you are.

Timing? Well, you also want to give yourself permission to move forward! Lingering is okay but not too long, lol. My way of thinking of it, was to give myself a month on each step and then, if I felt scared or spooked to move forward, I could 'camp out' at my current step for a while longer.

That was my thought, but what actually happened was that I picked up the journal after about a week of breakfast. I liked to journal and it was fun for me to journal all 4 parts of breakfast. I did that a bit before journalling all my meals.

So, that's kindof how I approached it... I hope that helps a bit in your figuring out how you would best settle with the changes and how to keep it in place as a habit. I think it has a lot to do with what is familiar becoming easier, because as I did the steps I got comfortable and what used to be new became second nature. So it wasn't as hard to try to do more, if I just let the previous step become familiar first.

Pleasantly,
-Lea (snoozey)

: Thank you for your answer.
: I have always been eating breakfast
: but not enough protein.
: So today I have been eating a huge
: breakfast with 2 boiled eggs,
: cottage cheese, a slice of whole
: grain bread with a slice of ham
: and a banana.
: That makes 33 grams of protein.

: Now I understand why I got hungry
: about 2 hours after eating
: breakfast. I did not eat enough.

: How long shall I wait before I start
: journalling?

: From a rainy Sweden
: Maggie