Fat Loss 4 Idiots Opinion

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Take The Time To Eat Healthy Breakfast Foods

By Jamis Hartley

No matter how rushed you may be, breakfast can still be a part of your day. Using breakfast foods that are easy and fast doesn't mean they can't deliver what your body needs to get a good start in the morning.

The ready made breakfast foods purchased at your local grocer are typically very high in sugar content. It might be fast and it certainly is easy, but it isn't going to last. Our bodies need energy and the sugar we love in the morning is so quickly burned off you will find yourself wanting more before the morning is through.

Gaining the right balance of nutrients and a food that's going to support your efforts all morning can be a challenge. This is especially true if your morning is hurried, as most are. Given the morning tasks that take place every day in households with two workers and young children, getting things together for breakfast may be the last thing you think of in the morning.

It's quite possible to make the task of getting the right level of nutrition out of every morning a very manageable endeavor. By putting forth a little pre-planning effort you can have ready many great options for healthy breakfast foods making the choice of "what's for breakfast" an easy choice. You will no longer have to worry about whether you ate healthy or not. You simply follow your plan.

Thinking of what to eat at the last moment is where you will find yourself making the wrong choice. Many of us wouldn't choose unhealthy foods or even to skip a meal if we had other options available to us. Making those options available is as easy as spending a few minutes on a Sunday afternoon to prepare a meal plan. You will likely be able to make the morning less stressful and consume much healthier breakfast foods if you do a little preparation.

It can be very helpful at this pre-planning time to ask the kids or other members of the family what they might like to have for breakfast. Helping them choose a healthy lifestyle is much easier taught during the low stress times on a comfortable couch with no deadlines than in the middle of chaos in the morning. After all, healthy living is a family matter.

By getting the family involved at the early stages you will find it a lot less stressful in convincing them to eat what's on their plate. Choosing healthy breakfast foods together and possibly even preparing the meals together, will greatly increase your chances of them learning a healthy lifestyle that will stick with them for years to come.

The weekend is a great time when the mornings are a little less hurried. So, why not add an extra dozen muffins to the oven and wrap them for Monday and Tuesday? When the evening meal rolls around and you're making that delicious coffee cake for dessert, make it from whole wheat flour and make two. Two pans don't take any longer to mix up than one, and offer you a good choice of breakfast foods for the weekdays when time is at a premium.

Make healthy breakfast foods a priority. Do a little planning and preparing ahead of time. Avoiding the fast and easy high sugar stuff will provide a lot more lasting energy. Seek after whole grains that enter the system a lot slower helping you to maintain your energy longer. It shouldn't take long for you to master a plan that will come naturally and help you and your family live a healthy lifestyle. - 17269

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