Challenge #9: Eat Breakfast!!

It's time to make time for the most important meal of the day!  Get your body, your brain, and your mood off to a great start with a healthy breakfast.  (Yes, it must be healthy! McDonald's drive thru does NOT count!)

Eating breakfast is like making sure your gas tank is on FULL at the very start of the day.  Your body can run better all day long on a full gas tank right from the start.

Cereals low in sugar are a good quick option.  But so is a banana and yogurt, a smoothie (my personal fav!), granola, eggs (hard boiled for portability), oatmeal, fruit, nuts, whole grain toast with all fruit preservatives or peanut butter.  Seriously, there are so many options!  Stop making excuses and make it happen!

Here's an article I found that discusses the benefits of eating breakfast:

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/lose-weight-eat-breakfast

I have a personal story to go along with this breakfast eating challenge.  A few weeks ago, the hubster and I decided to try and overhaul our diets.  Not to drag him through the mud, but he'd fully admit his needed a bit more overhauling than mine.  For example, he never ate breakfast.  In fact, he wouldn't eat until about 2:00 in the afternoon.  By then his body was literally in starvation mode, which leads to all kinds of stresses on the body - as in, it's so bad for you (said with love). 

Well, when we started this new diet overhaul I decided that in order to add more fruits and veggies into my diet I would start making smoothies for both of us to have at breakfast, or even as our breakfast (some of these smoothies are very filling!).  In a few weeks time, the hubster lost 5 pounds by ADDING a meal to his day!! I promise you, not much else changed in his diet (hey- it's baby steps for us too, right?!)  So there you go - eat breakfast!