The report is due in two hours. Or perhaps you’re in the
middle of a mid-term exam. Or you’re making sales calls. Suddenly, bam! Around 10:30 a.m. you hit a wall. All you
want to do is look out the window.
Hmmm…what did you eat for breakfast?
I hate to say, “I told you so,” so I’ll turn to Mom, who
has said it countless times: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
It’s the meal that’s designed to supply a third of the macro and micro
nutrients your body needs to run without a hitch.
So what are you eating each morning to do all these
things? A cup of coffee gulped down on the go? A cup of sugary yogurt and a
muffin eaten at your desk? Nothing at all?
Your body deserves so much better than that. And so do you!
When you eat a good breakfast, your day goes smoothly. No
growling stomachs, low blood sugar shakiness, or wandering attention to keep
you from nailing those big goals you’ve made for yourself.
What breakfast is right for you?
One of the best—and most fun—ways to find out which foods
serve you most powerfully is
something
called the Breakfast Experiment. For one week, eat a different
breakfast each day. Record in a notebook what you ate, how you felt immediately
after the meal, and how you felt again two hours later.
·
Day one:
Scrambled eggs or tofu
·
Day two: Bean
soup or a bean salad
·
Day three:
Oatmeal
·
Day four: Boxed
breakfast cereal
·
Day five: Muffin
and coffee
·
Day six: Fresh
fruit
·
Day seven: Fresh
vegetables
Feel free to repeat the experiment for another seven days
with different foods each morning. Which breakfasts made you feel energized?
Which ones didn’t? After the experiment, try adding in more of the foods that
made you feel great!
Stephanie
Abbott received her training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where she learned about more than one hundred dietary theories
and studied a variety of practical lifestyle coaching methods.
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