Five Reasons to Eat Breakfast

How you start your day is important. If food is your fuel then why would you run on empty for half the day?

FIVE Benefits to Eating Breakfast

1. Breakfast means “breaking the fast.” During the night you are not eating. Breakfast jump starts your system back in to “awake and alive mode.” This gives you energy and helps you think clearly.

2. Eating in the morning speeds up your metabolism. Once you wait over 4 hours your metabolism starts to slow down. When you have a slow metabolic rate the food you eat is more likely to turn in to fat. Your body switches to starvation mode, thinking it might not get any more food for a while and converts the food energy in to stored fat.

3. Breakfast prevents afternoon energy lows. If you always feel like taking a nap in the afternoon you may not be eating a healthy breakfast. Eating breakfast keeps blood sugar (glucose) levels topped up, for the energy to take you right through the day.

4. Don’t be fooled in to thinking skipping breakfast is helping you to cut calories. The less you eat in the morning, the more you eat at night. People who skip breakfast are more likely to binge eat later in the day and even get up during the night for snacks. It’s better to eat in the morning and burn it off during the day, rather than eating right before bed and having it sit in you all night.

5. Breakfast usually includes a lot of healthy foods like whole grains, fruit and low fat dairy products. Eating healthy first thing, starts the day off right with food that is good for you. Setting the day up with good choices will help you to continue the trend until the evening.

Eating breakfast has been shown to help with losing weight and keeping it off. As well as lower (bad) cholesterol and reduce risks of heart disease. Whether you eat an apple or a big breakfast burrito, you are doing your mind and body a huge favour!

Start Your Day Off Right!

Kaleena Lawless

Personal Training Specialist

http://www.kalisthenixfitnessblog.com

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