Breakfast Skippers Beware!!!

Breakfast isn't just the most important meal in the day...it can be the yummiest.  The word breakfast means: to BREAK a FAST!  That means that your body is in starvation mode until you eat something.  If your metabolism isn't working, you're not allowing your body to work effectively. If you remember nothing else...when you're choosing your breakfast, think - PROTEIN and FIBER!!  Make sure your breakfast includes both to help fill you up and sustain you until lunch.  Try to limit your processed carbs and sugar!

Research shows that the heartier your breakfast, the more likely you are to meet your wellness goals and avoid metabolic disease (by 40% when compared to breakfast skippers). 

Some yummy breakfast ideas:

• GREEN MONSTER!  (www.greenmonstermovement.com)
• Whole Wheat english muffin/waffle with natural peanut butter and a Banana
• Low Sugar Oatmeal with a handful of nuts/fruit (beware of raisins)
• more in this week's handout

Try to make your breakfast include all 4 of the below:

• Fruit and/or Veggies: green monster, banana, berries, oranges, (beware of juice)
• Whole Grains: oatmeal (try steel cut), whole grain bagel, waffle, English muffin, ground flax seed)
• Low-fat protein: natural peanut butter, lean meat (Canadian bacon, veggie sausage, egg whites/substitute
• Low-fat dairy: skim milk, low fat yogurt, low-fat cheese, cottage cheese

There are lots of excuses for not eating breakfast but your body needs to be kick started each morning.  Try it and you'll see a difference.  Being hungry (truly hungry - not stressed or bored) is a GREAT sign that your body is working...feed it!

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