Thread: I know I should eat breakfast....but

When you go to sleep at night your metabolism slows to a crawl... it doesn't kick start again until you eat... the closer you eat to when you wake up - the faster your metabolism will burn for the day. If you can't stomach food first thing, how about a cup of juice? You don't have to have breakfast for breakfast... you can have a 1/2 sandwhich and peice of fruit, etc.

Studies have shown that a high percentage of obese persons skip breakfast on a regular basis. Before I lost weight... I would ALWAYS skip breakfast... then my apetite would kick in the late afternoon evening.

Not eating first thing leads to a sluggish metabolism, then eating later in the day causes all the food you eat to stick to you.

Weight issues and metabolism aside... your brain functions better with food in your body in the morning. Like I said try juice or a nutritional shake , or force yourself to eat a piece of bread, anything... is better than nothing.

Okay, this morning I ate something small, 2 slices of bacon. Probably not the healthiest thing, but I was cooking for the kids. I made a smoothie, drank about half of it and put the rest in the fridge. Having a cold is making it difficult to start. Shortly after that I made me some hot tea, which I hadn't done in a very long time. And actually drank 5 cups of hot tea today, with honey. I went to the store and got 3 different kinds. My kids each had a cup tongiht at bedtime. They enjoyed it. Usually they will ask for hot cocoa 1 to 2 times a week. But this was something different. My mom drank hot tea while I was growing up and I used to do that with her sometimes. Just over the years, I guess I just forgot about it. Tomorrow I'm going to try some hot cereal instead of the smoothie since the temperature has dropped again.