Make time for Breakfast
There may be nothing worse than platitudes. Likewise there is always the annoyance of finding out that your culture’s ancient saying is the most accurate statement of health. “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” rings truer and truer as we start to break down science more and more.
Many times people skip breakfast when dieting in hopes of losing the calories they would have consumed during that meal. Unfortunately this fails for two very notable reasons. First and foremost, at lunch and then dinner they are hungrier and more than make up for the lost calories with replacement calories. Secondly, when we don’t eat breakfast our metabolism slows down for the entire day. Simply by eating breakfast your metabolism raises and more calories get burnt the whole day long.
Interestingly enough, Japanese sumo wrestlers follow the no-breakfast weight loss routine. So how do you avoid that correlation? Eat a little fruit, a cup of cereal with low fat milk. Maybe even an egg a couple times a week. Wash it down with a glass of O.J. and you have sped up your metabolism, eaten less than 500 calories, and saved yourself the make-up meals at lunch and dinner.