Yogurt for breakfast

Hi Jeff,

quick question, is 250 grams of a yogurt with 3.8% / 4% fat enough for breakfast fat requirement or I have to add something else?

If it doesn't meet the requirement my option is to add about 2/3 table spoons of whipping cream (about 25% fat I think, I'm going by memory on this).

Thanks

Hi Fabio, 

how do you feel after that amount of yogurt? 

Is whipped cream the same thing as heavy cream? 

Double post, sorry.

5 minutes ago, Fabio Genesoni said:

I feel full and sometime even slightly nauseated for the first half hour or so, but please note that before Thrive I used to eat a classic Italian breakfast made of 1 croissant and 1 espresso sweetened with white sugar, or sometime I even skipped breakfast altogether.

In the morning I am rarely hungry. Having said that, I had no problem changing habits and I'm feeling much better.

I generally become really hungry in the evening at dinner. If we were to use a hunger scale from 1 to 10, in the morning I'm at 3, at lunch 6 and at dinner 9.

As for the cream I think a better translation would be heavy cream, so yes. I post a picture for reference.

On the left the yogurt and on the right heavy cream.

Fat=grassi

Thanks for your time.

 

Going to that breakfast is a huge macronutrient change. You are going from eating basically sugar to yogurt. Ease into it. Your guts metabolic machinery is probably having a hard time with it. 

You can eat a small something two different times in the morning to avoid that feeling

Ok, thank you.

Post back in 2 weeks on this

OK

Jeff, I made some experiment with Kefir and I fell in love with it ah ah. Much better than yogurt on my stomach. I can eat how much I want and no problem digesting it. The only problem is that I can't find a full fat kefir at an affordable price.

For example:

keifir from organic milk at 1.5% fat sells at € 3,30 /KG (the blu 400g bottle on the photo)

keifir from organic milk at 3.5% fat sells at € 8,28 /KG (the white and green little 250g bottle on the right)

Crazy, isn't it?

I will not pay so much more for 2% fat difference.

Is it ok if I drink the 400g bottle of keifir and add to it about 50 ml of heavy cream (36% fat)?

Yea, thats expensive. 

The way they rate the "%" system is funky. Its not 2% more fat its milk fat by weight. 

Heavy cream is basically milk fat. I believe in Italy its real cream where as in America its somewhere between cream and milk. Anyway, cream is not fermented, people with lactose or casein issues will have a harder time with it.