What to eat for breakfast if you want to lose weight
We’ve all heard at some point in our lives that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Far from being an old wives tale, this refrain is supported by numerous studies showing improved and maintained weight loss in those that eat breakfast regularly. While people opting for just a cup of coffee for breakfast may think they are avoiding calories, in fact this is likely to be detrimental to their efforts to lose weight . Breaking the fast As suggested by the name, by eating breakfast, we are in fact ‘breaking the fast’ as usually we haven’t eaten since previous dinner, some ten hours before. This helps to kick start the metabolism for the day. If we do not eat for long periods of time, our bodies have a tendency to store energy as fat for reserves rather than burning it. People who skip breakfast and do not eat until lunch time, which could be a good sixteen or more hours after their last meal, risk this fat storage as the body ...