Breakfast is often the meal most missed by people when they wake up. There are a list of excuses to the reasons why people typically skip the most important meal of the day. Now unless it is a medical then your excuse is INVALID! Here are just some of the excuses: “I’m not a morning person”, “I’m always in a hurry when I wake up”, “I feel nauseated when I do eat breakfast”, and “I hate breakfast foods”. All of these excuses are counter productive in your fitness journey. You need to form a habit of waking up at an early enough time that will allow you to eat a healthy meal of your CHOICE routinely everyday.
The Benefits of Eating Breakfast:
- It gives you energy and jump starts your day!! You’ve been asleep for approximately 8 hrs so this is much needed.
- If you wait till lunch before ingesting something to eat, then your body goes into starvation mode. Basically in starvation mode, when food is eaten your body holds on to it and all of the calories instead of utilizing it for energy/nutrients. *This is one of the most counter productive measures in your weight-loss journey.
- People also tend to eat more by lunch time because of the amount of hunger that they have. Typically their food choice is often skewed into unhealthy choices/portions.
Food choices for breakfast are best when they are something filling and not just empty calories. You want to eat items such as whole grain bagels/bread/muffin, oatmeal, eggs, 2%-fat free milk, bran cereal, fruit, yogurt, and etc
Foods such as sugary cereal, donuts/pastries, candy bars, sausage egg bacon and cheese biscuits, soda, non-100% juice drinks, and etc. These foods aren’t energy dense and have a high amount of calories, meaning that in a short amount of time you will feel the hunger again. Rule of Thumb: It’s better to eat a bad breakfast than no breakfast at all. One option is to mix bad breakfast items with healthy choices as a transfer into healthy food choices! Another option is to eat small healthy snacks at the start of your day approximately 1-2 hours apart if you have stomach troubles from breakfast.
