Do you eat breakfast? For years I've shied away from the idea, after reading an advert for a particular brand of cereal aimed at the slimming market. It stated that you should have half a grapefruit, a small glass of fruit juice and a black coffee, along with a tiny portion of this particular cereal, in order for you to be nice and slim and not gain weight. Some switch flicked over in my brain at that point, and I made a connection ~ eat breakfast and be fat, don't eat breakfast, or only eat a tiny breakfast and stay slim. How wrong I was...It got to the stage where I was only having a coffee for breakfast (made with milk, if that counts) then after a while, not even that. By 10am I was starving and reaching for the biscuits, the treats, you name it, I wanted it. But as it wasn't a 'meal' I couldn't get fat, right? It wouldn't occur to me to go to the shops in the car without adding petrol first, but yet I was expecting my body to work it's magic on either nothing, a mug of coffee, or a tiny tiny portion of cereal and half a grapefruit.
Recently however we've tried a new idea. To have breakfast sat at the table, with fruit juice and a pot of tea, and either cereals, croissants, pain au chocolat, something cooked, porridge or toast. Making a proper occasion of it, and boy does it feel better? Suddenly instead of being hungry and cranky all morning, I feel energized and not wanting to eat anything until lunch. Result.
They say in fact you should make breakfast your main meal, so you can utilize the calories properly and this of course would make sense, maybe in time I will work towards that. After all it's early days yet. It would make perfect sense not to over fill your digestive system with calories at the exact point in the day when you're doing your least physical activity.
Having breakfast is also a good way of getting a few portions of fruit down everyone. A glass of juice, that's a portion, a banana sliced up and added to cereal is another. So that's two portions ticked off before you even leave the house for the day.
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