| 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. |
