Eat Breakfast
Start your day the right way
Breakfast is exactly what it says it is. Break Fast. Your body needs fuel in the way of nutrient rich calories to start the day right out of the gate.
Protein is always a good idea. A hard boild egg on the go or a complete meal smoothie in a travel mug will do just fine. Make your own travel mix of raisins with roasted and salted pumpkin seeds and walnuts for a cardio healthy snack, even a quality energy bar with little or no added sugar. Easy Peasy. You’ve heard it since you were a little kid. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And they weren’t wrong.
Breakfast has everything to do with giving the body the nutrient rich calories required to get moving and keep you going. And a good breakfast doesn’t have to be just a weekend thing or special occassion. No matter how busy you are, there is still time for something wholesome and nutritious.
Let’s break it down
Breakfast has a lot of options. More than you might think. It’s not that hard to get creative with one large size egg. And with 6.3 grams of protein that’s a great start (Bjarnadottir, A., (2023).
OK, so you don’t love eggs. If cereal is something you like, oatmeal is another option to get some protein first thing in the day. “Oat has a unique protein composition along with high protein content 11-15%” (Rasane, P., et. al., (2015).
If toast is all you have time for, whole grain bread and a couple of tablespoons of unsweetened peanut butter, maybe a bananna or some blueberries, or any berries will certainly do the trick until lunch. Your body will thank you for it.
Reference
Bjarnadottir, MS, RDN, A., How Much Protein in an Egg?, Helathline. Retrieved from https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/protein-in-egg
Rasane, P., Jha, A., Sabikhi, L., Kumar, A., & Unnikrishnan, V. S. (2015). Nutritional advantages of oats and opportunities for its processing as value added foods - a review. Journal of food science and technology, 52(2), 662–675. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-013-1072-1
National Library of Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325078/#:~:text=Oat%20is%20considered%20to%20be,content%20of%2011%E2%80%9315%20%25.