Weight Loss Success Secret #1 Eat Breakfast

Breakfast lays the foundation for your entire day. 

Breakfast is our most important meal, yet, it is the meal most often skipped. Breakfast is the meal that lays the foundation for your energy the rest of the day. Breakfast gives you energy and helps to stabilize your blood sugar. Skipping breakfast leads to energy drain by mid morning. People who skip breakfast are often ravenous by lunch. They overeat, and feel sluggish and tired the rest of the day.

When you have gone 12 or more hours without eating, you will be in a state of low blood sugar, or glucose. Glucose is needed for energy. Your blood sugar level is at it’s lowest in the morning. It is in a state of fasting. Your body needs good nutrition in the morning to function properly the rest of the day. 

People who skip breakfast have a variety of excuses. “I don’t have time.” “I will gain weight.” Or,“I’m not hungry in the morning.” 

Breakfast is really the most simple and quickest meal to prepare. Eating not only feeds your stomach, it feeds your brain as well. You are able to be far more productive and think more clearly with a good breakfast in your stomach. Downing coffee and a doughnut puts you in an energy deficit that you cannot get out of. It will leave you shaky, unable to concentrate, with low blood sugar by mid-morning. Eating a nutritious breakfast helps to sustain energy and blood sugar levels. 

People often feel that if they skip breakfast they will have a head start on losing weight.  This simply isn’t true. Studies show that people who eat a nutritious breakfast are the ones who are able to lose and maintain their weight. 

So, what if you’re not hungry in the morning? Try not eating past 7:00 pm at night. This way you will be in need of food in the morning. If you’re still not hungry, start with some juice or fruit, and have a small bowl of whole grain cereal with skim, low fat, or soymilk. This will slowly get your body used to eating breakfast. 

What constitutes a good breakfast? A good breakfast is one with a balance of whole grains, protein, fruit, and low fat dairy products or soymilk. Good protein sources are eggs, low-fat meats, peanut butter, lowfat yogurt, or cottage cheese. Whole-grain breads, cereal, and fruit provide plenty of fiber. 

Poor choices include anything sugary like pastries or doughnuts.  Also avoid fried, greasy foods like bacon and fried potatoes except for a treat once in a while. 

What does The Weight Loss Master eat for breakfast? I eat oat bran cereal or oatmeal with fruit and low fat soymilk almost every day. For a treat once a week, I will have a couple of eggs and toast with fruit. Once in a great while, I will have two pieces of whole grain French toast with just a tiny bit of syrup. This keeps me from getting bored with my cereal routine.

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