| Do you feel like you eat the ground running in the | | | | day. |
| mornings? With rushing to shower, get dressed, | | | | Make sure that the breakfast you choose is not |
| fight traffic, and get to work, you may decide | | | | high in sugar. Yes, the sugar will lift your energy, |
| that you don't have the time to slow down for | | | | but it will only last a couple of hours before |
| breakfast, or at least a nutritious breakfast. You | | | | dropping you and making you feel as if you need |
| may not feel hungry early in the morning. You | | | | to eat another sugar-packed pick-me-up snack. |
| may feel like skipping breakfast will help you lose | | | | Although it is better to eat something, make sure |
| weight. However, what most people do not know | | | | the breakfast you choose is the best choice |
| is that skipping breakfast is bad for your health | | | | possible. |
| and bad for weight loss. | | | | Since breakfast revs up the metabolism, it helps |
| Eating breakfast is good for many reasons, but | | | | your body burn fat more efficiently throughout |
| especially so for those trying to lose weight. The | | | | the day. For both young and old, it is important to |
| main benefit in eating breakfast is that it speeds | | | | get off to a healthy start each morning. If the |
| the metabolism, which is necessary for weight | | | | body is kept running smoothly, it will be more |
| loss. If your dinner time was at 6 p.m. the night | | | | likely to maintain a healthy weight. |
| before, you do not need to wait until lunch to eat | | | | Be careful not to fall into the opposite trap of |
| making it 18 hours without a meal. That huge | | | | eating a huge breakfast in order to skip other |
| span of time is bad for your health. | | | | meals later. If you binge at breakfast to skip |
| Skipping breakfast will often make you so hungry | | | | lunch, you will not be allowing your body to work |
| that you will overeat at the next meal. Although it | | | | at its best. For a healthy, efficient metabolism, the |
| seems odd to think that you must eat in order to | | | | body needs regularly spaced meals to keep the |
| lose weight, studies have shown that successful | | | | furnace burning. Whether the diet calls for 3 meals |
| weight loss is associated with those who eat | | | | or relies on 5 or 6 small meals, breakfast is a key |
| breakfast rather than skipping it. Other studies | | | | to starting the metabolism each day. Just |
| also show that eating breakfast increases your | | | | remember it should not be the only meal of the |
| ability to focus on tasks at work or school. | | | | day. |
| Eating breakfast does not necessarily mean that | | | | If you have skipped breakfast for a while, |
| you have to cook a huge time consuming meal. | | | | establishing the habit of eating breakfast may be |
| Depending on the type of diet you are following, | | | | difficult at first. Practice makes permanent, |
| you can choose a quick high fiber cereal. If you | | | | though, so start by making sure you eat |
| are cutting carbs, you can have a high protein | | | | breakfast every morning. Try to make the time |
| breakfast such as scrambled eggs and ham. Either | | | | to sit down at the table to eat instead of running |
| way, you need to have vitamins and minerals in | | | | out the door with a muffin. If you sit this time |
| your breakfast to help your body get off to a | | | | aside, you are making your diet and health a |
| good start each day. | | | | priority and putting yourself in a winning position |
| Having that good start will also elevate your | | | | for weight loss. |
| mood throughout the day. This can be critical if | | | | DISCLAIMER: |
| you are trying to keep a positive attitude about | | | | Please take note that this information is not |
| losing weight. By making a good choice in the | | | | presented by a medical practitioner and is for |
| morning, you will feel better and be more likely to | | | | educational and informational purposes only. |
| make good choices about food throughout the | | | | |