BREAKFAST OF A CHAMPION – Start your day off right!
TRULY THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY
- Health Benefits
- Healthy weight
- Decrease cholesterol
- Increase energy/ increased metabolism
- Increase cognitive function
- Break the Fast tips
- Eat within 30 minutes-1 hour of waking up
- Metabolism starts to slow after this time frame to conserve energy for the day
- Breakfast provides a solid foundation for your entire day
- Increase energy
- Allow metabolism to work at its fullest for the entire day
- Burn more calories overall
- Reduce hunger throughout the day by preventing afternoon blood sugar crash
- Non-breakfast eaters tend to eat more, less nutritious foods throughout the day
- Helps people to make more balanced food choices at other meals
- Ideal Healthy breakfast looks like: (should be the same size as lunch and dinner not a smaller meal)
- Grain – Oats, Toast, Bagel, English muffin
- Give us that lasting energy to get through the morning – the brain and central nervous system only function on glucose from carbs
- Protein – Peanut butter, Eggs, breakfast meats, beans, Greek yogurt
- Keeps you feeling full for an extended period of time
- Fruit/Vegetable – Spinach, peppers, tomato, pineapple, orange, banana
- Provide proper vitamins and minerals for a more healthful diet
- Grain – Oats, Toast, Bagel, English muffin
- If you aren’t hungry for breakfast when you wake up…
- Still need to get something in – turning food into a liquid in the form of a smoothie is an easy nutritious way to get a solid breakfast in.
- Pineapple, banana, strawberry, Greek yogurt, juice or milk
- If you wake up late and don’t have time to put together a full breakfast
- You can make a quick nutritious breakfast even if you only have a couple minutes.
- Smoothie, larabar with fruit, bagel with fruit, hard-boiled egg with fruit
- Breakfast doesn’t have to mean breakfast food….
- Nutrients are nutrient – if you don’t like breakfast foods you can still get a solid start to your day with ANY sort of food that you prefer.
- PBJ for example
- Nutrients are nutrient – if you don’t like breakfast foods you can still get a solid start to your day with ANY sort of food that you prefer.
- If your breakfast is within an hour of a workout..
- You want to eat a carb only meal for the quick energy needed to avoid low blood glucose during a workout. Also, to digest the food out of the stomach. Protein, fat, and fiber slow digestion (normally great, just not before a workout).
- You can make a quick nutritious breakfast even if you only have a couple minutes.
- Still need to get something in – turning food into a liquid in the form of a smoothie is an easy nutritious way to get a solid breakfast in.
