A Better Breakfast
Watching Your Weight?
Eating a healthy breakfast will actually help you shed those pounds! It’s a common misconception that skipping breakfast will help you lose weight. When you skip breakfast, it’s like you’re letting your body sleep in instead of getting your metabolism up and running. When you make up for a skipped breakfast later in the day, it’s as if you’re yanking the sheets off of your metabolism. So for the rest of the day, you’re consuming calories—potentially binging on the wrong foods, since you’re starving from missing breakfast—and since your metabolism got off the wrong side of the bed, it’s being lazy in processing those calories.
Breakfast Ideas
Eating any sort of breakfast is better than eating no breakfast, but you shouldn’t make McDonalds breakfast or Dunkin’ Donuts part of your weekly meal regiment. Eating a breakfast high in sugar and fat will seem satisfying immediately after, but you will become hungry again very quickly. In keeping with a standard breakfast, lunch, and dinner meal schedule with small snacks in between, you want your breakfast to keep you full for at least 3-4 hours.
Just like any other meal, you want a variety of foods to make up your breakfast, including: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, protein, and dairy.
Here are some easy breakfast recipe ideas that take traditional breakfast foods and turn them into a healthy start to your day:
- Eggs are great – egg whites are better. If you’re not skilled in separating the egg yolk from the white by hand, brands like Egg Beaters sell egg whites in cartons that you can pour directly in a pan for scrambling. Add some chopped onions, peppers, and spinach for added nutrition and flavor variety!
- Gobble, Gobble, Gobble. Go for the turkey sausage and bacon instead of the regular pork varieties. Watch your nutrition labels here, though. You can find pork bacon in lean varieties that are sometimes lower in sodium and fat than a regular turkey product. When you do opt for turkey meat, make sure it’s the lean meat variety.
- Choose a healthy breakfast cereal! Cereal is one of the most common breakfast food choices in America, but there are a few things to watch out for with your flakes, crisps, and puffs.
- Make sure you’re eating a whole grain cereal like Kashi Cereal or Fiber One Cereal – both not only contain whole grain, but fiber and protein as well (two nutritional elements that help to keep you full).
- Don’t get too sweet. Look at the sugar content on your cereal box, because you want to select a breakfast cereal where the sugar makes up for 25% or less of the total calories per serving.
- Watch your pour! Most people grab their cereal box and a bowl and pour until it’s full. Meaning, you’re likely eating enough for multiple people. Check the serving size on the box, and be conscious or actually measure that amount when filling your bowl.
- All About Oatmeal. Opt for steel cut oatmeal, or plain Quaker Oatmeal rather than the sugary, flavored, microwavable oatmeal packages.
Your options are endless when it comes to eating a healthy breakfast, but the first place to start is to have all your breakfast ingredients for various breakfast dishes always on hand. So go out, grab a grocery cart and join the breakfast club!



