Inspiration of the Day - 2/3/11

 I can't stress enough how important having breakfast in the morning is.  Our metabolism depends on it to get going for the day.  And not just our metabolism, but US.  Ever feel tired around 2 PM?  You're sitting at work...you're getting off at 5...but then around 2, you just crash... That's most likely due to not eating breakfast or not eating a big enough and/or balanced breakfast.  It's like a car sputtering when it's on the freeway and about to run out of gas.  Our bodies run at a million miles an hour!  The meals we eat later in the day will not digest fast enough to keep us running past 2 o'clock.

Also, like it was stated yesterday, we need to be eating frequently throughout the day.  Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner and a snack.  Breakfast, lunch and dinner are easy enough to manage.  But where we normally fail is at having snacks throughout the day.  A lot of times we get lost when it comes to what to eat for a snack.  Good snacks can be:  almonds, peanut butter and celery, trail mix, protein shakes, yogurt, fruits (apples, bananas, berries, oranges) and vegetables (spinach, broccoli, yams, carrots), a quick bowl of oatmeal.  These are examples of quick, easy and healthy snacks we can have throughout the day.

Our metabolism is like a fire, and in order for it to keep burning it needs to be fed before it consumes it's fuel source and burns out.

So let's keep some logs on the fire and burning throughout the day!

More tomorrow.

-LK