the b word. breakfast.

If you skip breakfast thinking your saving your body from those extra calories, so that you can lose weight, you have no idea the harm your actually doing to your body. When you wake up in the morning, your body has nothing to run on. Its like a cellphone, how is it supposed to make a phone call if the battery is dead? Not eating breakfast actually makes you GAIN weight. I am 100% true proof of that. In high school, I'd skip breakfast every day, and by lunchtime my stomach would be growling uncontrollably, causing me to overeat. You'd be surprised since I've started eating breakfast on a regular basis, I have lost so much more weight then when I would skip breakfast. It kick starts that metabolism. Why do you think they tell you to eat every 2-3 hours?

So .. What should a healthy breakfast consist of ?
- one serving of whole grain
- one serving of fruit or vegetable
- one serving of calcium containing food
- it is also fine to have a protein, like eggs, nuts, etc.

I always have either coffee or green tea with my breakfast. Most juices are either artificial, or packed with extra sugar that will just make you even more tired. I take my tea clear, and I add a tiny bit of almond milk to my coffee (I'll be talking about almond milk on another post, I could go on for hours). You could always spice things up by preparing iced coffee the night before, and having a cold refreshing iced coffee while making your breakfast.

Here are some of the breakfasts that I eat on a typical morning.
Remember : You can play around with these, any fruit is amazing for you! These are just my preferences :)

1 - Egg White Omelet - topped with spinach, fat free feta cheese, peppers, and seasoned with cayenne pepper.

2 - Oatmeal - made with unsweetened vanilla almond milk, flax seed, topped with fresh raspberries, almond slices, and shredded coconut.

3 - Plain Fat Free Greek Yogurt - topped with strawberries or blueberries, granola, and almonds.

4 - Breakfast Smoothie - blended banana, mango, orange, and pineapple, with flax seed, plain greek yogurt, and crushed ice.

6 - All Bran Cereal - with sliced bananas, almond slices, and a pinch of cinnamon.

7 - Fruit Salad - delicious blend of strawberries, banana, pineapple, oranges, blueberries, grapefruit, kiwi, grapes, watermelon, and apples :) sprinkle with cinnamon for extra flavour !


for the exact recipes for any of these , feel free to message me :)