God’s Word, Healthy Diet, Fitness and Weight Loss

Healthy Weight Loss Program.

Breakfast is essential for a healthy weight loss program. To meet your weight loss goals you must break fast every morning with a healthy breakfast to help your energy, stimulate your mind, excite your metabolism and just get you going on the right foot to start your day. Here are four quick healthy breakfast recipes to help you start the day off right.

Oatmeal.

This very simple 5 minute meal is great for nutrition and helps lower cholesterol. Oatmeal is a whole grain that is good for you and when prepare properly gives you a complete breakfast. First of all choose old fashion or quick but avoid instant if you can. Instant oatmeal is a processed food with preservatives and additives not found in the old fashion or quick versions. I use the one serving size; which is 1/2 cup of oatmeal to one cup of water. If you choose to add salt use sea salt. Follow the simple directions on the box to cook on the stove top or microwave (they are equally healthy). When you serve use butter sparingly and do not add sugar. I add raisins and fresh fruit. You can choose blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, apples or peaches. Any sweet fruit to your taste. The try a few walnuts, pecans or almonds. This variety allows me to eat oatmeal 2 to 3 times a week. some people eat it every day, but i like variety.

Bowl of Fruit.

Fruit is full of energy, fiber and some protein. One quick, delicious and nutritious breakfast is to add a variety of fresh fruit cut up in a bowl and serve like cold cereal with or without low fat milk. Berries are particularly healthy full of antioxidants and they give you a good energy boosts. Blueberries, Strawberries and raspberries are my favorite. any fruit will do. My breakfast fruit bowls literally consist of whatever fruit I have at the time, which is almost always berries, citrus fruits, melons, bananas and apples of course. So you see there is lots of variety there and any fruit you use is right.

Vegetarian Omelet or Scramble.

Like a fruit bowl my omelets are a concoction of whatever fruit I have available. My staples are onions (all types); red green and yellow peppers; chopped fresh garlic cloves, broccoli, cauliflower and spinach or other dark leafy vegetable. Women should not eat more than one egg a week and men ca have two. So that means a one egg omelet for women and two egg omelet for men. You can add a little low fat milk if need be. I chop my fresh vegetables of the day and put them in the warm skillet which has been heated with a tablespoon or two of olive oil. I quickly add my scrambled eggs that have been seasoned with Mrs. Dash Salt Free Seasonings. I especially like the spicy variety. otherwise I just add cayenne pepper. I also like a little jalapeno peppers and almost always tomatoes. As mentioned earlier, whatever vegetables are available. Top your omelet off with a little shredded cheese if you choose along with salsa. In five to ten minutes you have a great nutritious breakfast.

Meal Replacement Shake.

I promised four complete healthy nutritious breakfast recipes and one of my favorites is the Advocare Meal Replacement Shakes.  Simply blend one package with 9 ounces of water and you have a complete meal that provides a complete nourishing meal in 2 minutes. I love fruit and I add fruit to the shake. Frozen fruit is nearly as nutritious as fresh and quite often is cheaper, especially in the off season. Three to five minutes and you have prepared and consumed one of the healthiest nutritious breakfast you can have.

Healthy Breakfast.

Four healthy breakfast recipes for your healthy weight loss program that all take less than 15 minutes to prepare. There is no reason to skip the most important meal of the day. All you need to do is to be prepared and add lots of fresh fruit and vegetables to your shopping list. Get Oatmeal and Advocare Meal Replacement Shakes and breakfast is complete.

Be Blessed. Be a Blessing. Yes You Can Lose Weight.

Louis

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Advocare Weight Loss Program

Eating breakfast is a key component to any successful weight loss program. The Advocare weight loss program is no different. Simply put you must eat breakfast to lose weight. Many people erroneously think that by skipping meals they can cut a few calories out of their diet and lose weight. In reality by skipping meals, especially breakfast, you run the risk of actually gaining weight. Our bodies are like complex machines created by God to handle the different challenges that we may encounter in life. One such challenge is starvation. God has placed a coping mechanism to lessen the effect of us eating less food and starving to death. Our bodies will slow its metabolism, store energy and store fat so we will not starve to death. Therefore, if we begin to skip meals and eat dramatically less food, then our bodies will not burn fat but retain fat causing us to gain weight. By the way, that fat is typically stored in your belly. In other words you need to eat breakfast to eliminate belly fat.

Why Is Breakfast So Important?

Well it is the “break” of the “fast”. Upon breaking fast you must fill your body with the vitamins, minerals and nutrients needed to jump start your body and mind. After a fast your mind and body are sluggish and need fuel to get going.  Breakfast is the fuel and charge to get you going. You lose weight by burning fat. You burn fat by revving up your metabolism so that your body will burn the fat.  Not only do you need to eat breakfast to lose weight by increasing your metabolism, but you want to be at your peak mental awareness and the proper breakfast will help you achieve that.

What Do You Eat For Breakfast?

Eating breakfast is a general rule to lose weight. But like eating any meal it is important that you eat the right foods in the right quantity. Yes quality and quantity are both important. Many people eat the wrong things for breakfast and they eat too much of it. An important thing to remember is that you want to eat a healthy diet. That means lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains vs processed foods, nuts and beans. Stay away from sugar, salt, and excess fat. For breakfast that means we avoid white flour pancakes and waffles, meat and pastries. We want to eat fresh fruit, fresh juice, oatmeal, nuts, 100% whole grain bread, etc.  And as always drink water. drink at least eight 8 ounce glasses of water a day starting even before breakfast. Above all avoid the fast food breakfast. Avoid the McDonald’s, Duncan Donuts and even Starbucks substitute breakfast. The reason coffee in the morning is so popular is because we crave the pick me up to get us going. Coffee, pastries and pancakes are not the answer. They are not healthy on lots of levels and they are detrimental to your weight loss program.

But, I Just Do Not Eat Breakfast!

There are many of us that just do not eat breakfast. For you I would suggest one of two options if you just will not eat breakfast. The first option would be to juice. Purchase a juicer and juice fresh fruit and vegetables to start your day. You will get energy and nutrition in a quick drink. I juice everyday and it helps my energy, metabolism and weight loss. Not only that, I know that I am getting an excellent source of vitamins, minerals, nutrients and antioxidants to keep me healthy. The second option is advocare meal replacement shakes. They are a nutritional supplement to breakfast that will give you the vitamins, minerals and nutrients you need to “break fast.” The advocare meal replacement shakes will give you the proper mixture of carbohydrates (pancakes-waffles-toast-etc), protein (meat and eggs), and fiber we need for a healthy jump start to our day.

So Start your day off right. Break the Fast. Eat a healthy breakfast or drink a fresh fruit and vegetable juice or take an Advocare meal replacement shake. This is an important key to your advocare weight loss program.

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