Hey friend ! I hope today finds you well. Let's take a moment to discuss something I get asked a lot about and that is what exactly is a healthy breakfast? Eating healthy breakfasts is very important, most of us have heard our entire lives that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? Do we really know what healthy breakfast foods are? Here is a shocking story for you. In a survey done in 2010, 90 % of Americans said their diet was unhealthy, YOWSA! Does this sound like a healthy breakfast to you? On the day of the poll 42 % had fruit juice or a fruit drink ,37 % had cold cereal ,29 % had whole wheat bread, toast, or muffin and 18 % had eggs.
The importance of a healthy breakfast is this, it's going to set the tone for the day. If you get yourself in a quick healthy breakfast in the morning you will be more excited likely to make better decisions on food for the rest of the day. The other end of the spectrum is that if you eat an unhealthy breakfast in the morning containing stimulants, sugars, and flour it's going to set you up for failure the rest of the day because if you are anything like me your mindset will be "well I already ate a crappy breakfast." Does that sound familiar? Well it did to me too.
Let's talk about the four above mentioned food items for a healthy breakfast. We had fruit juice, cold cereal. wheat toast, and eggs. Let's find a way for you to have a quick healthy breakfast containing actual health foods not the pseudo health foods. I am going to make this as painless as possible, because when I was transitioning to eating more healthy breakfast foods that is what I wanted .
Fruit juice or fruit drinks tend to me packed full of sugars, artificial flavors, artificial sweeteners and higher in calories from all the sugar. Starting your day of with processed drinks like this full of additives are going to leave you craving the same foods all day long. The acidic nature of these will cause you to crave more acidic items. Try substituting the bottled juices for freshly juiced vegetable juice, not the stuff in a can either! Some other great ideas are unsweetened almond milk, distilled water, a healthy low sugar smoothies, or a healthy supplement.
Cold cereal tends to fall into the category of sugar filled or highly processed "health foods" as a lot of them are very well marketed at that. I would recommend to you Ezekiel sprouted grain cereals. I have personally had their cinnamon raising, almond, and regular cereals and I prefer them with almond milk. You can have them cold or even heat them up! This is a great example of healthy breakfast food. The sprouted grains unlock more of the ingredients nutrients and makes them easily absorbed setting yourself up for a great start to the day and a clear mind instead of those donuts and coffee on the way to work!
Whole wheat products need to be watched and limited as well. Ezekiel makes an AWESOME set of breads perfect for toast in the morning. I prefer the cinnamon raisen with some almond butter and agave nectar and a dash of cinnamon. They also have some awesome english muffins. You are usually able to find these are more recognizable grocery store chains or even your local "health food" stores.
Eggs, well let's just say that even though there is constant debate going on over whether or not eggs are good or bad if we should eat the white, the yolk or just the whole thing. I have found it best for me to limit eggs as much as possible as they contain an extremely high amount of toxins. These toxins get absorbed into the body and can send our blood cells into a state of panic after being infiltrated by such massive amounts of toxins. Do yourself the favor and limit eggs as much as possible. You will be pleasantly surprised at how good you feel.
So I hope that gives you an idea of a way to get started with a quick healthy breakfast. Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, so make sure to take some of those healthy breakfast foods suggestions . Now you should have a better understand of what a healthy breakfast is. I am going to issue you a challenge to start tomorrow with a healthy breakfast!
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