You've heard how important breakfast is, but now there's even more research proving it. Whether your goal is to lose weight, gain weight, or be more active, you need to eat a good breakfast each and every day.Those seeking to lose weight often find the best results by eating the bulk of their calories (including whole grains, fruits, and vegetables) in the morning. By eating most of your daily calories in the morning, and then continuing to snack/graze throughout the day on smaller portions, you allow your body to burn the calories throughout the day instead of storing them.
This approach tends to give more energy during the day so you can be more active. It also can help reduce cravings throughout the day for sweets or other unhealthy snacks. It is important to choose quality foods for breakfast.
My recommendation for those wishing to reduce weight/bodyfat is that you eat a hearty breakfast each morning consisting of protein, unsaturated fats, and whole grains, fruits, and/or vegetables. Avoid sugars and processed grains. This means avoiding most typical sugary breakfast cereals, bagels, donuts, pastries, muffins, waffles, pancakes, and so forth. If you do choose cereal, waffles, pancakes, etc make sure they are made from whole grain without minimal added sugar. If you absolutely need sugar on it, you can add that yourself later.
Try to make breakfast at least thirty percent of your daily calories. Then eat two or three small snacks throughout the day (pre-portioned) and two smaller meals. Dinner should be several hours before you go to bed and should be smaller than lunch.
