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What's for breakfast? If you are like so many other Americans
who skimp on breakfast, you can expect your stomach to be growling
and your blood sugar level dropping long before lunch time.
But there's worse news: you might gain weight, too. Skip breakfast,
and that box of high-fat, low quality, powdered sugar covered
mini donuts in the vending machine starts to look edible. Make
a daily habit of sloshing two or three of them down with a cup
of oily black office coffee, and you've got a recipe for flab.
What if you're on a diet? Skipping the first
meal of the day seems like a good idea, doesn't it? Less food
equals fewer calories to turn into fat. Right. Except, when
you don't eat breakfast your metabolism slows way down, and
your body gets the message to conserve energy, not burn it.
Skipping's just not a good idea, and you won't lose weight from
doing it.
Eating breakfast may seem like a chore, especially
if you don't wake up feeling hungry. Before the workday begins,
many of us like to get by in the morning with just a cup of
coffee or tea and a piece of toast or a muffin. This routine
will get you going, but this type of breakfast won't provide
your body with enough energy to last until lunch.
It really is true that breakfast is the most
important meal of the day. When your body receives a high quality,
nutritional bowl of hot-cooked whole grain cereal or yummy steel
cut oats, it has plenty of energy to run on till at least lunch
time. Dieters can really benefit from having a high quality,
low fat breakfast such as oatmeal before going to work. You
won't look twice at the bowl of kisses on the office kitchen
table, or that slice of chocolate birthday cake that your office-mate
brought for you.
Sliced pears, kiwis, apples or a handful of
fresh, organic berries makes a naturally sweet and nutritious
addition to any whole grain hot cereal. Eat breakfast, stay
healthy and lose weight naturally. |
