The Most Important (& Most Delicious) Meal

I absolutely LOVE breakfast. In addition to being my favorite meal of the day, it's also the most important! Here's why:

Breakfast = "breaking" the "fast." It's even in the name people! After fasting all night while you're asleep, your first meal is the key to jump-starting your metabolism for that day. Think of it as the meal that wakes up your metabolism and prepares it to efficiently burn and process everything else you eat for the rest of the day. If you skip breakfast, your body won't work as effectively to burn food, and a slower metabolism means more of what you eat will be stored as fat instead of burned for energy! NOT good. In fact, there is a saying that says "eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a peasant", meaning it can actually be beneficial to make breakfast your biggest meal of the day! If you're the type of person who has absolutely no appetite in the morning, that's okay too! Drink lots of water and try to at least have a piece of fruit or a small bowl of oatmeal. 

Now, to the fun part! Here are a few of my favorite breakfast options: 

1. 2 eggs with a few slices of turkey bacon, fruit, and green tea
2. Oatmeal made with soy/almond milk, topped with berries and flax seed
3.  Smoothies made with fruit, greek yogurt, almond milk, almond butter, and whatever else I feel like throwing in there! I'll do a whole separate post for my favorite smoothies :) 
4. Flour/sugar-free Oatmeal banana pancakes topped with berries
5. Omelets filled with spinach, mushrooms, onions, & ground turkey
6. Overnight oats (again, these babies deserve their own post) 

I could probably make this post go on forever with my favorite breakfast options, but I decided to keep it short for the sake of the reader. The moral of the story is, always eat your breakfast, and most importantly, enjoy it!