Great news! + My morning breakfast routine

Hello!

I have some great news!  As part of a cardio/fitness assessment this morning I had to calculate my BMI.  The BMI categories look like this:

For a very long time my BMI fluctuated between 38 and 40, making me severely or morbidly obese.  After calculating my BMI this morning I am now at 28.72, on the higher end of the "overweight" category!  Now, I know that overweight isn't good, but I am now officially not considered morbidly or severely obese.  I'm not even in the obese category.  This gives me so much hope and motivation to keep going.

(There is a ton of controversy over BMI and it's accuracy, but that would take an entire post in itself just to go over.)

And now for my breakfast routine!  I said before that I love getting up and making scrambled eggs so when I did so this morning I thought I'd document it.  So this is what I do!

The very first thing I do is get everything ready.  I get out my eggs, my cheese - which just so happens to be freshly grated this morning, how fancy is that? - bacon, and then I chop up any vegetables I can find.  Today all we had was onion and cauliflower which means a trip to the store is in order!  Usually I add mushrooms as well.  Only recently have I been putting in cauliflower.  I find it makes the eggs much more filling and tastes like potatoes!

Next I get a pan screaming hot and throw in my bacon.  I cook that until it's rendered all its fat and is nice and crispy, then I transfer it to a plate until I'm ready for it.

Into the rendered bacon fat goes all of my vegetables.  I love good, soft, sauteed veggies in my eggs so I cool those until they're nice and tender.

Then I add in my 3 eggs.

And the cheese!  Then stir, stir, stir until the cheese is melted and the eggs are cooked through.

After the eggs are done, I add the bacon back in for some yummy crunch!  Sadly, I realize now that the picture I took of the beautiful bacon crumbles on top of the finished eggs somehow got deleted off my phone or didn't take or some other such treacherous thing.

Totals for the dish: 555.8 calories and 6.4 carbs.

I had that about 9:30 this morning.  It's 12:30 now and I'm still not hungry.  Eggs like that chocked full of protein and veggies will keep me full for at least 4 hours.  It's my biggest meal of the day.  For lunch I'll usually have a salad, ham and cheese roll-ups, or an Atkins shake, and for dinner usually some kind of meat and some veggies.  Once a trip to the grocery store happens I'll make a post about lunch and dinner.