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2 Important Fat Fighting Breakfast Tips
What you eat in the morning is a huge determiner of how your body will handle the food you eat throughout the rest of the day. In fact, some people believe and have studied that there are certain factors at breakfast that can make your break your ability to lose weight. Fat Fighting Breakfast Tips 1. Eat slow release carbohydrates such as oatmeal, kamut flakes, or high fiber bran cereals. Why? Slow release carbohydrates do not spike your blood sugar as much as a piece of white bread and jam, or an unhealthy sugary cereal. Lower levels of insulin is related to the ability to burn fat as fuel. 2. Eat a high protein breakfast, like farm fresh eggs, nuts and seeds or if you are in a rush a good quality protein shake. Why? A couple reasons, actually. Protein makes you feel full by stimulating the secretion of a gut hormone (called Peptide YY) that triggers long-lasting feelings of fullness. Protein takes a longer time to digest and causes a lower spike in insulin levels. In the morning, you need to wake up your body and your brain. Without a proper high-protein breakfast, you will have slow brain function and lower energy by mid-morning. 2 Great Breakfast Ideas: Healthiest Breakfast Cereal 1/2 cup kamut flakes * If you cannot find these, use steel cut oats 1 cup water 1 tsp cinnamon 1 cup yogurt 1 cup frozen blueberries 2 tbsp chopped walnuts 2 tsp ground flax 1 tsp grated ginger 2 tbsp flax, borage oil or Udos oil 2 tsp honey 1. Grate 1 tsp of ginger 2. In a small pot or saucepan, add your kamut flakes, water, cinnamon and ginger. 3. Bring to a boil. 4. When it boils, turn it down to simmer with the lid off, stirring once and a while until all the liquid has evap- orated. 5. While waiting, pour your frozen blueberries to the bottom of each of your bowls. 6. When kamut flakes are ready, pour over your blue- berries (which will help them melt quickly). 7. Top with yogurt, nuts, flax seeds, flax, borage or udos oil, and honey. With love, Grandmother's Kitchen |
