Breakfast Guidelines For Fat Loss

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for fat loss and weight loss. You should never miss this essential feeding time slot if you want to get rid of man boobs and achieve a six-pack or improve muscle tone or build lean body mass. It is equally as important for dieters as it is for the above goals; especially women who want to reduce fat from the belly and arms.
Breakfast means to break the fast from the nights sleep, why is this important? During sleep the metabolism (the rate the body burns calories) slows down because of the lack of demand needed for calories. The worst thing you can do is to prolong the fasting and keep the metabolism running slow (the rate the body burns calories) by skipping breakfast. If you do this what chance do you have achieving results?

Research after research has proven time and time again that eating breakfast will help achieve more fat loss and weight loss for dieters, but it doesn’t stop there. The sooner you feed the muscles with quality nutrients the better, you need regular feeds to fuel and maintain as much lean body mass as possible to help keep the metabolism fire burning. Muscle has a greater calorie demand than body fat. Skipping breakfast will teach your body to store fat and rob fuel from the muscles causing them to break down and lower the rate your body burns calories. Some women get scared with the mention of muscle or maintaining muscle mass through eating smart and resistance training because of the misconceptions attached to it. It is easily achievable to get very strong and eat loads of clean calories and still lose fat and change the body shape for the better if done correctly.

What if you haven’t got an appetite first thing on a morning? Don’t worry, I teach my clients to break it down in this case. You could start with setting your first goal so you eat breakfast before 10am every morning. Then during the weeks ahead try and bring the time closer to convenient time soon after rising. You should aim to get 25% of your daily calories at breakfast. It may seem like a lot at first but it is the best and only way to jump-start the metabolism for quicker fat loss results.

The kind of breakfast I eat.
Kipper, poached egg, raw spinach and gluten free bread with ghee butter.

Breakfast in a rush.
Wholegrain puffed rice cereals: I pour over a whey protein drink mixed with a little water and loads of natural yoghurt and add seed oils and flax seed powder.

Or I might cook some meat or gluten free sausages the day before and eat cold the next morning with some mushrooms, tomatoes, raw spinach and asparagus for example.