Make Your Breakfast Biggest Meal

Part of the reason that the US has so many problems with obesity is portion control.  If we could just grow out of this “bigger is better” mentality, then we would be able to shake a lot of the obesity epidemic as well as all the health problems that always seem to go in tandem with obesity once and for all. But alas, we don’t seem to learn, and we keep eating the wrong things and the wrong portions.  I’m really hoping that with all this new healthcare program talk going on that healthcare plans offer real incentives to eat right and stay at a healthy weight.

For example, my significant other’s company he works for  gives him so many dollars for every preventive program he goes to.  So, if he participates in a wellness program or a checkup of some sort, he gets money in a special account. Great idea and a great incentive for staying healthy!  One of the things we Americans get really wrong is the importance of making breakfast the biggest meal of the day.  Instead, we tend to load up our plates with fat and calories more so at the end of the day, and because of that, we experience weight gain and weight that is hard to take off due ot the fact that we aren’t really burning any of it off after we eat it.

Think about it, and it makes sense.  Why would you “fuel up” your body at night when all you’re going to do is go to bed in the next few hours, where that food does not get burned off and instead is much more likely to be stored as excess fat somewhere on your body?  I’ve tried to convert to this way of thinking, and I’ll admit, at first it seemed weird to me because I was used to eating more at night.  I think eating more at night was a big part of my relaxation routine though, and it was a way of rewarding myself after a long day’s work.

Now, I’m trying more to think of breakfast as being the time to indulge in a little more calorie intake.  Not only does it help me think more clearly at work and let me have a more productive morning, but it also provides me fuel right up to lunch, whereas before I would be starving by about ten o’clock in the morning for a snack because my breakfast was too small.  Oh, and a nice byproduct is weight loss and ease of weight maintenance too!