Friday, November 6, 2009
Super Size your Breakfast
I thought I had written about this previously but I guess not. I wanted to talk about breakfast. We've all been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day since we were all little tykes. Eating a good meal first thing in the morning gets your metabolism kicking to give you more energy throughout the day and burn more calories. We are now finding that the size of the breakfast is just as important. Here is a fascinating study. A group was split into two sub groups. They were all given the exact same amount of daily calories. One group had a 300 calorie breakfast, the other had a 600 calorie breakfast. After 8 months the group that ate a larger breakfast lost nearly 4 times as much weight as the group that ate the small breakfast! So if weight loss is your goal please (I am pleading here) don't skip breakfast! And try eating a larger than usual breakfast while eating less throughout the rest of the day. You may be pleasantly surprised by the results.
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I am just not hungry in the morning! So, if I have a hard boiled egg when I wake up, then a coupl eof hours later, have some yogurt with fruit and flax meal, is that still cosidered breakfast? Or does thins only count if you eat something substantial when you wake up?
ReplyDeleteI would say if you combine the egg, yogurt, fruit, and flax you are still eating a very small meal. You might be at 300 - 350 total calories (just an estimate.) There's not a whole lot of metabolic stimulus going on there. Don't get wrong, it's tons better than nothing, but not quite optimal. I think smoothies are great for those who aren't hungry in the morning. It doesn't require much hunger to put four eggs, bunch of fruit, some yogurt, and flax into a blender and drink it down. Add some fish oil and you're ready to go!
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