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Breakfast means breaking the fast. Over night the levels of sugar in the blood drop—so if you have a sugary, sweet, light or fluffy breakfast, the blood sugar rises steeply for that inevitable crash. Normally at around 11am. Masses of people say to me that when they eat breakfast they actually feel more hungry and not less—so they are often tempted to skip breakfast altogether. The reason that you feel hungrier is because you are eating all the wrong foods! The sweet, fluffy and white types of food will make you feel starving. The fluffy foods are white toast with jam and orange juice, Rice Crispies, cereal with loads of sugar, etc.

Instead, you need a dense, thick fibrous breakfast and the best choice would be:

* Porridge (proper jumbo oats) with rice milk and berries, but be careful that you don’t compensate by scattering on a mound of sugar to make it taste better.

* Wheat-free muesli (only wheat free because they tend to be made without sugar and also have a variation of grains).

* Eggs: boiled, scrambled (you don’t need butter or milk, just scramble the eggs in a non-stick pan), poached, omelette—with spinach, tomatoes, asparagus or sugar snap peas.

* Kippers.

* Kedgeree made with brown rice.

* Sardines on toast with tomatoes (even from a tin)—I know this one is a big ask!

* Pasteurised goat’s cheese/mozzarella and tomatoes on toast with watercress.

* Cashew nut butters with rye toast.