Benefits Of Eating Breakfast
The benefits of eating breakfast are many, especially if you are trying to lose weight, you are also guaranteed more energy and better mental function.
From your last meal the night before to the first meal of the day, it is a long time to go with out food, and probably the longest time between meals. Which is why eating breakfast is so important.
Break fast is breaking a fast.
Eating A Healthy Breakfast
When you wake up in the morning, your body needs fuel for energy, just like your car needs petrol to go. If you don’t eat anything, your body will begin to get its energy from your muscles, and in turn, destroy muscle tissue.
Eating later in the day, which many people do, only makes matters worse. Your body will store much of the food you have eaten as fat, and therefore have a supply of energy when needed.
Other problems can arise, when you skip breakfast. Blood sugar will drop, your metabolic rate will slow down, (metabolic is the rate your body burns up calories), and if you are trying to lose weight, you definitely don’t want this to slow down.
You also tend to reach for high sugary foods, and do a bit of impulse snacking, or eat a bigger serving for lunch or dinner. The benefits of eating breakfast certainly make sense.
There is one good reason why you may not feel hungry in the morning, and find it easy to skip this meal of the day, and it is cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone, produced by the adrenal glands (located on top of both kidneys). It is usually referred to as the ‘stress hormone’, as it is produced in response to stress.
Being stressed will affect the body’s metabolism of glucose (a simple form of sugar that acts as fuel for the body), proteins and fats. The body normally releases cortisol in a regular daily pattern; this will not happen if there are any imbalances such as, depression, stress or fatigue.
Trying to lose weight, you need to be aware that your body is also storing more fat because of the overload of cortisol being produced, which is too much for the body to handle.
Healthy Breakfast Foods
If you really are pressed for time in the mornings, and the last thing you want to do is mess around with cereal. Try packing a small container of almonds, raisins, pumpkin seeds, goji berries, sesame seeds, fresh dates is another good one, anything else you might like to eat.
Otherwise, porridge is great in the mornings (not the instant), organic muesli, yoghurt with LSA and organic honey, or poached egg on wholemeal toast. There are so many yummy things you can find to eat in the morning, and once you get into the habit, not a morning will pass without you putting something into your tummy.
Healthy breakfast drinks; a smoothie with banana, lsa, blueberries and flaxseed oil or chia seeds.
I never start the day without enjoying eating a healthy breakfast, I love my organic porridge, sometimes I will add rolled rye, barley flakes, spelt flakes, quinoa flakes and of course porridge oats. I throw a spoonful of each into the pot, cook with water, pour my almond milk on top, add a spoonful of flaxseed oil and there you have it, one nutritious healthy breakfast.
This is probably a good one, for the weekends, when you don’t have to rush out the door to work or take the kids to school.
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October 30th, 2010 at
weight loss should be easy to achieve if you combine proper diet with lots of exercise ::
September 15th, 2011 at
I usually skip breakfast and just have coffee. Thanks for the info.