Break that fast
The very first post on Fitness Mantra and I choose a boring topic like breakfast, you ask? Well, consider this: One study found that people who did without breakfast were at four times greater risk of obesity compared to those who started the day off right. (Via HealthCentral)
Breakfast is indeed the most important meal of the day as a simple search on Google will reveal. Especially of interest are the following benefits of a good breakfast (from SparkPeople):
- a revved up metabolism started early so that it burns the maximum number of calories to fuel your activities
- fewer total calories consumed throughout the day
- an increased leptin (an appetite suppressant) output
Even if you don’t have more than a few minutes in the morning for an organised breakfast, the following are great options:
- Whole wheat bread with natural peanut butter and blueberries
- Regular (unsweetened, unflavored) oatmeal with almonds/walnuts and blueberries/strawberries
- One tall glass glass of low-fat or fat-free milk and an orange.
- 2 eggs (eat atleast one yolk – your body is hardly affected by the cholesterol in the food you eat – it’s the cholesterol your body makes on its own that you need to be worried about) – either scrambled or made into an omelette using cooking spray with a slice of whole wheat bread and 1/2 glass of low-fat or fat-free milk.
There you have it folks – the first step toward a lifetime of fitness begins with the very first meal of the day. Welcome to this journey – together we can achieve our goal of making fitness our mantra – a way of life!
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- Oatmeal: A FitMan Food
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