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Breakfast Like A King

17/03/2009

Almost everyone wishes to stay healthy and live healthy. However, living a healthy life requires major effort on your part. You will need to diet, you will need to exercise, and you will need to look out for yourself in order to be healthy. However, there is one thing that you can do that will contribute to your health. That one thing is eating a healthy breakfast every day of your life, to start the day. It is essential for weight loss as well as for staying fit.

Most people unfortunately skip breakfast for sake of weight loss and sometimes to save time on their way to work. Actually, this is one of the worst things that you can do to your body. A research done by scientists showed that when the body doesn’t start with a healthy breakfast, the metabolic rate will drop down considerably and thus this will also cause a spike in your blood sugar levels. This will also cause you to eat bigger meals and unhealthy snacks during the day and because your metabolism has reduced itself in the morning, you will be able to burn less calories. Thus, you will not only gain weight, but your body will also be thrown in an imbalance when you don’t eat breakfast.

However, eating breakfast will solve your problems as your body will feel full and satisfied. Your metabolic rate will increase along with thermo genesis (the rate of energy burning by your body). Your blood sugar levels will balance out and you will not feel the craving for extra snacks and foods for 4-5 hours.

In any case, you should take care to eat a healthy breakfast. However, it will need to be balanced in order to be healthy. This means that a huge plate of scrambled eggs and lots of bacon is out of the picture. You should take care to eat things like fibres, proteins, and in general nutritious food. Here is a list of things that you can eat in order to make a health breakfast. In total, what you eat for breakfast should not be more than 2 or 3 servings

1. A bowl of cereal (wholegrain).
2. A bowl of oatmeal.
3. An apple or an orange (or apple juice or orange juice).
4. Hard-boiled egg (don’t fry them for health and weight loss purposes).
5. Skimmed Milk.
6. Low-fat cheese.
7. Brown bread – toasted (never eat white bread).
8. Walnuts, pecans and any nuts in general.
9. Any raw vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, peppers etc.
10. A low-fat protein shake or a nutrition shake.
11. A cup of tea with no sugar.

As you can see, a healthy breakfast is comprised of healthy food. Eating a balanced breakfast will also help you in your quest for losing weight. It will restore the balance of your body, so you will not feel the need to eat snacks or huge meals during the day. Moreover, you will also feel better during the day, compared to people who skip breakfast.

3 Comments leave one →
  1. 18/03/2009 12:25 am

    OK I am inspired to eat breakfast again !!! i know i should

  2. lisa permalink
    13/04/2009 10:10 am

    Sounds good but when I have breakfast it makes me feel hungrier than when I skip it

    • 13/04/2009 10:50 am

      Yes, I must admit I was the same at first. It took a while for my body and my metabolism to adjust to the change in eating patterns. I eat breakfast now without fail and find my energy is much higher throughout the day. I ended up making many changes to my lifestyle choices and overtime and lost more than 30kg in the process. I am about to cover in my blog the major changes I made to get to where I am now. One change though was having good healthy breakfast to get the energy levels up and the metabolism spinning early in the day.

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