There are a number of good reasons why you should eat breakfast to stay slim. Weight gain doesn't necessarily come from eating oneself, it just comes from eating the wrong types of foods and your habits of when and how you eat them. Eating a healthy breakfast actually contributes to weight loss because you eat healthy and eat at a good time of the day. Eating breakfast is by far one of the best habits you can adopt which is why you should eat breakfast to stay slim. Here are 5 reasons why.
1. You eat when you need the most fuel
One of the best reasons why you should eat breakfast to stay slim is to start your day right. There are good times and bad times during the day – not at certain hours, but at certain hunger points. If you eat when you're hungry and out of energy, that's a good time to eat and refuel. If you're only eating out of boredom, fear, or some other emotion, it's not a good time because your body doesn't really need it. Your body needs fuel first thing in the morning because it ran out of fuel all night. The day starts in the morning and you need to be alert and think hard, so if you don't fill up enough, you'll feel drowsy and run out of energy at a time that could otherwise be highly productive.
2. You'll binge less later
In the morning you immediately start using energy when you get out of bed, get ready and start the day. Every time you use energy, sooner or later your body will need to be replenished with fuel (calories). When you eat breakfast, your body will have a fuel source to enjoy while expending energy. If you skip breakfast, your body feels so exhausted that when you finally eat it, it needs so much fuel that you lose control of yourself and overeat or feed your body with something that isn't the healthiest. It is best to feed your body when it is not too exhausted and you are not overly hungry so that you can make a good decision about what to put in it.
3. You start to love food
Many people think that the best way to lose weight is to stop eating altogether or eat as little as possible. This couldn't be further from the truth. When you stop eating, your body goes into starvation mode, trying to hold on to every ounce and calorie it can get. It holds on to fat instead of letting it go. The best way to burn fat (excluding exercise) is to eat mini-meals throughout the day. Eating 5-6 small meals will help keep your metabolism active and keep you from feeling weak. Eating in the morning reminds you of this truth, that food is good and healthy for you and you are not doing your body any good by starving yourself. Make breakfast the first of several small meals you eat throughout the day.
4. You allow yourself to enjoy good food
Breakfast is often people's favorite type of food. It's important to make sure your breakfast is healthy, but the foods you can choose from are usually delicious. Eggs, whole grain pancakes and waffles, oatmeal, grits, fruit, omelets, cereal. People like breakfast because it is not bland at all. It's easy to associate weight loss with eating the healthiest things — carrots, lettuce, brown rice — but breakfast makes you feel like indulging (even if it's healthy). You can add things like peanut butter, syrup, jam, cinnamon and still keep most of your meal healthy. Diets are discouraging and breakfast reminds you that you can still eat delicious food and live a healthy lifestyle.
5. You are less likely to go to bed on a full stomach
If you go to bed on a full stomach, you can gain weight for a long time. Since you don't burn as many calories when you eat later in the day, those calories are digested and stored because they won't be used quickly. By having breakfast you start your day full. If you then eat 5-6 small meals during the day, you will continue to feel full and you will not feel the need to enjoy a large dinner. By starting to eat throughout the day, then having a light dinner, your body can use the calories you ate throughout the day as energy, and you naturally burn those calories as you exercise throughout the day. /P>
If you skip breakfast and eat most of your food later in the day or in the evening, you won't have energy all day and once you eat, your body won't have a chance to burn the calories.
