Archive for January, 2012
Your mother probably told you numerous times that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You should have listened to your mother! Research has proven that a well-balanced breakfast is essential to maintaining a healthy weight.
That may seem counterintuitive; if you skip a meal won’t you be taking in less calories and thus hasten toning your body? The answer is: no. When you skip breakfast and follow-up with a skimpy salad for lunch by the time you get to dinner you’ll be starving. You’ll eat two to three times as many calories as you should and chances are you’ll continue snacking until bed time. Eating a healthy breakfast, even when you don’t feel hungry, helps you to not overeat the rest of the day.
Every year millions of Americans make the same resolution, “this year, I will lose weight.” Most of those people will last on a new diet for about one week and by the end of the month that pricey gym membership will seem like a bad investment. While a gung-ho attitude is great for starting kick-starting a healthier lifestyle, you need to find a program that works for you.
For instance, if you eat unhealthy every single day suddenly switching to salads is not going to work. By the end of the day you’ll be starving. Instead, start slowly cutting things out of your diet. The first week commit to not drinking soda. The next week cut down on the number of trips to your favorite ice cream shop. By making small changes that you can actually commit to, you’ll find it a lot easier to lose weight and keep it off.