Breakfast is Not Important- Don’t Bother Eating It.

[Nancy Carlson]

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” is the statement I grew up with. I heard it in school from teachers, from my parents as they tried to get a teen age girl to eat anything each morning, and as a mom I said it over and over. Is it true? I certainly didn’t live it until my mid thirties.

Now I will shout it from the top of mountains “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” But what we eat at breakfast is important too, Very Important.

#1 Our bodies need to be refueled after going all night with out any food. We have fasted between 8-10 hours. No food or water. It is the prime time to introduce healthy foods into our system.

#2 Our bodies need healthy foods in order to start the day out on the right track. Filling your breakfast plate or bowl with simple carbs like cereals, toast, or bagels will result in starting our blood sugar on the roller coaster ride of high spikes followed by low lows. On the other hand if we eat a nutritious protein, fibrous carbs, and healthy fats our blood sugar stays on an even line and our body likes the smooth ride that produces.

#3 Our bodies need to be treated like an important part of our well being, in other words treating our body like it is something of value will add value to how we perceive ourselves. Filling our stomachs with nutritious good tasting breakfast foods will commence the day with the mindset of tackling the day for good health.

So eat breakfast for your body to refuel it after the night’s rest. Eat breakfast for yourself, treat yourself special, fix a meal fit to serve a king or queen. I wouldn’t walk into a king’s presence with a bowl of cocoa puffs, so why should I feel I am less deserving?

Eating a healthy breakfast is the most important meal each day.


What do you eat for breakfast?

[Terie (aka SpinDiva)]

Hey Nancy...long time since I visited--life can really get busy sometimes.

I love this post. I have so many clients who skip breakfast and sometimes even lunch and they have every excuse in the book. I don't have time, I'm always in a rush, I'm not hungry....so I said, if I offered you 10,000 dollars would you eat breakfast every morning? To that she said, well yes of course. So I said, isn't your health worth more than the money? Her face turned red and she agreed to make a change. Aha moment!!

My breakfast (s) are many depending on what I'm doing at the gym that morning.

1. Oatmeal cooked plain with a little stevia and nutmeg; egg white with a little salt free seasoning; coffee

2. Kashi Cruch with 4 oz of vanilla yogurt

3. Protein fruit smoothie: yogurt, banana, pineapple chunks, sometimes I switch it up and make a tropical smoothie with papaya or mango, a little orange juice and water and at least 25g or whey protein.

Never go a day without eating breakfast!!

[Nancy Carlson]

I think I will borrow your $10,000 idea and hopefully a few more people will have an aha moment. It is important.