Little Things That Can Imporve Heart Health #4

Now You're breathing deeply, you're exercising with your walk and lifting weights. Next let's talk about eating. I have mentioned it before, but this is so very important that it bears repeating. Make breakfast the most important meal of the day.

Feeding your body after a night's rest is vital to it's functioning in a normal way. Starving the body by not eating breakfast will not make you lose weight and may in fact make you gain weight. Be sure that you have some form of protein, a serving of whole grains and a serving of fruit. This will balance things within your body so that it can take on the day and expend the appropriate energy required.

Remember, your mother was right when she said to eat your breakfast!

Can't eat in the morning?

My husband was one of those people who used to say that he couldn't eat in the morning. I spent 25 years trying to get him to eat breakfast. Then I finally got smart and asked him why he couldn't eat breakfast. After much discussion, the bottom line was that if he ate breakfast, he was hungry by 11:00 a.m. Once we started him on a breakfast that met his nutritional needs, including making his brain be more alert and clear, he didn't get hungry at 11:00. Part of this was also telling himself that he wouldn't be hungry at 11:00, but mainly it was giving him the right nutrients to feed the brain and keep it functioning at a clear and healthy level.

Are you telling yourself you can't eat breakfast? Do you only eat or rather I should say drink coffee for breakfast? More tomorrow on coffee.

Mother was right

Yesterday we changed your thought to ideal body. That was the first step. Now I'm going to reiterate something I have written about before. Your Mother was right. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Your body has gone approximately 12 hours without food, so your brain, and in fact all of your cells are in need of some energy in the form of food. If the cells go much longer without food, they will store as much as they can into fat stores when food does come along. This storage is to help protect them in that they may not get fed for a long time again. So more food gets put into the fat stores.

Skipping meals accentuates this problem. I've had people say to me that they don't understand why they can't lose weight when they "only eat one meal a day." Does it make sense why this might be a problem?