Eat Breakfast PEOPLES!

[liquidstayce]

Seriously, think about this - would you go out and get in your car when the gas gauge reads in the red zone that you're nearly out of gas and then head off on a 100 mile trip? Or would you head immediately for the nearest filling station and fill up the tank with good gasoline - not the cheapy gasohol....

Your body is really a lot like your car. It burns fuel all night while you sleep and by the time you wake up, the gauge is close to empty. Your metabolism is on sluggish setting, to avoid over-burning fuel since it can't think and doesn't "know" you're going to refuel soon. If you don't get SOME decent fuel in, your metabolism stays sluggish until it gets a signal from the brain that fuel is on its way (aka digestion). And if you don't fuel up in the morning, you've now put your body on alert to be conservative with burning fat. Do you really WANT that? Don't you want your bod to burn that fat?

To speed up your metabolism nutritional scientist have shown over and over again in study after study, that the body must have GOOD fuel on a regular basis. If it comes too late in the day, your metabolism is overwhelmed, your body is going to not burn the fuel up. If fuel comes too rarely, again, your body is not going to burn it up.

The body, while not a 'thinking' thing, needs to know fuel is going to be readily available and replenished on a regular basis, so that it feels confident in burning the excess stores of fat.

One NEEDS to eat in the morning....(eating can also = drinking a caloric, nutritious beverage).

Ok, off my soapbox ... =)

Have a great weekend everyone!

[The Kizzy]

I used to eat one meal a day. Not anymore. I eat a breakfast lunch and dinner, and two snacks. After the gym this morning, I had a western omelet and bagel (minus the ham) and then like an hour later I was starving again.

[10sun]

I eat yogurt in the morning. I usually have to poo by 11am. I think I am lactose intolerant.

[liquidstayce]

Depends on the poo consistency! =P Do you seriously think you have lactose issues? Do you end up getting all that cramping, etc?

Eat something else?
i.e. -
Peanut Butter and Banana

eggs/omlet, etc

cereal and some lactose free milk

oatmeal

anything is a better choice than nothing!

[Martrae]

Yes, ma'am!

Seriously, this is the hardest thing for me to do. When I wake up I have absolutely no desire to eat anything for a couple hours. When I try and force myself I feel like I'm going to throw up.

[10sun]

It keeps me regular, I can't complain. I think it is something to do with the active cultures still in it. It is loose and stinky. However, milk and cheeses don't have that much of an effect on me.

I also eat fruit and lately I've picked up the joys of eating sliced tomato with a bit of salt and vinegar. Sometimes I just eat leftovers from dinner the night before... but mostly it is the yogurt because I love it.

[liquidstayce]

Yes, ma'am!

Seriously, this is the hardest thing for me to do. When I wake up I have absolutely no desire to eat anything for a couple hours. When I try and force myself I feel like I'm going to throw up.

I get that way occasionally too. First thing I do when I get up is go for the water. Then 30 min later I eat a little something. Then I workout. Then I have a post workout breakfast or shake. You don't have to start with this gigantic IHOP like breakfast. It takes a while to get use to eating a normal sized meal in the morning if you are not use to it. Kind of just like it takes a while to get into an exercise routine. Even a little fuel is better than no fuel!

[KaiineTN]

Breakfast for me is usually a piece of toast or a banana, nothing big at all.

[Rotj]

it took me awhile to get used to eating 6-10 meals a day..i was consistently forcing..but its nice that its become a habit now with the stomach being a great alarm clock. i pretty much get hungry constantly

[liquidstayce]

sounds like mop... im all for eating smaller meals more often.. pre-op I did 6 meals a day but now that I have a smaller stomach my goals are a little different.

[Jennay]

I'm like Martrae in that I I can't seem to eat breakfast right away because my tummy is so delicate after I sleep. So I end up snacking small all day, and eating one meal which is usually dinner =/ Not good for me but the lbs keep falling off so something is working right.

[liquidstayce]

I think the tummy gets use to it if you introduce a very small amt of food in the am and work up to a nice rounded meal. Even a string cheese is good to start with and then you can add to that.

[Aatrex]

You can't say no to a nice bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios in the morning with whole milk. Actually makes waking up bearable!

[The Kizzy]

My ex said that when he was in Okinawa all he drank was beer, because he didn't like the food over there, and his stomach shrank. I like to eat to much. My stomach will never shrink, but I am bound and determined to looses the rest of the skin and fat around it!!!

[liquidstayce]

or.. Kashi Go Lean and some skim milk.. yums
Also .. quaker came out with this banana bread oatmeal that is tasty. It has 1 gram of sugar in it. I think it says weight control on the front of it. I do just the plan oats from quaker too. The other instants have way too much sugar for me.

[The Kizzy]

or.. Kashi Go Lean and some skim milk.. yums
Also .. quaker came out with this banana bread oatmeal that is tasty. It has 1 gram of sugar in it. I think it says weight control on the front of it. I do just the plan oats from quaker too. The other instants have way too much sugar for me.

I LOVE KASHI GO LEAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jimmy Durante]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050909/ap_ ... al_obesity

BALTIMORE - Girls who regularly ate breakfast, particularly one that includes cereal, were slimmer than those who skipped the morning meal, according to a study that tracked nearly 2,400 girls for 10 years.

Girls who ate breakfast of any type had a lower average body mass index, a common obesity gauge, than those who said they didn't. The index was even lower for girls who said they ate cereal for breakfast, according to findings of the study conducted by the Maryland Medical Research Institute. The study received funding from the National Institutes of Health and cereal-maker General Mills.

"Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls," said study author Bruce Barton, the Maryland institute's president and CEO.

The fiber in cereal and healthier foods that normally accompany cereal, such as milk and orange juice, may account for the lower body mass index among cereal eaters, Barton said.

The results were gleaned from a larger NIH survey of 2,379 girls in California, Ohio and Maryland who were tracked between ages 9 and 19. Results of the study appear in the September issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

Nearly one in three adolescent girls in the United States is overweight, according to the association. The problem is particularly troubling because research shows becoming overweight as a child can lead to a lifetime struggle with obesity.

As part of the survey, the girls were asked once a year what they had eaten during the previous three days. The data were adjusted to compensate for factors such as differences in physical activity among the girls and normal increases in body fat during adolescence.

A girl who reported eating breakfast on all three days had, on average, a body mass index 0.7 units lower than a girl who did not eat breakfast at all. If the breakfast included cereal, the average was 1.65 units lower, the researchers found.

Breakfast consumption dropped as the girls aged, the researchers found, and those who did not eat breakfast tended to eat higher fat foods later in the day.

"We think it kick-starts your metabolism because you've eaten something," Barton said. "When you get to lunch you're not starving and you can make reasonable choices for lunch and dinner."

John Kirwan, a professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University's Schwartz Center for Nutrition and Metabolism, said the findings may be "more reflective of overall eating habits and quality of food consumed."

"Those who eat breakfast on a regular basis are more likely to have a structured eating plan throughout the day and consequently are less likely to snack between meals and consume empty calories," said Kirwan, who has studied the effect of breakfast consumption on exercise performance and was not involved in the study.

He also pointed out that the study did not distinguish between low-sugar and high-sugar cereals, noting growing evidence that those who eat so-called low glycemic foods have a lower risk of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

While cereal can often be high in fiber and low in fat, "you can't walk away saying, I'm going to eat cereal and lose weight," said Melinda Johnson, a dietitian with the Arizona state health department and an ADA spokeswoman.

Johnson also noted, however, that the foods often consumed with cereal tend to be healthy, and the study was another in a series to find a link between breakfast consumption and lower body mass index.

"You can walk away saying breakfast has been shown in lots of different studies to be really important for my children," Johnson said. "So parents can feel confident that serving cereal is definitely not going to do harm and eating breakfast is the right thing to do."