Eat breakfast.
Did you ever hear the saying, “Eat like an elephant in the morning and a mouse at night”? For weight loss, there’s a lot of truth to this.
Many people eat exactly the opposite. They skip breakfast and maybe even lunch. They grab a snack a few times during the day along with their coffee and soda. Then at night when they get home or go out to dinner, they eat a large meal. This is often followed by late night snacking too.
Because they didn’t eat properly during the day, their body is now “demanding” the calories it needs. Having all those calories late in the day, however, is disastrous. Now they’re loaded down with calories and they go to bed.
These calories are stored – as fat.
Try to reverse this eating pyramid in your life. Eat a large breakfast with protein and complex carbs. A good choice would be an egg white omelet (or Egg Beaters) loaded down with veggies and sprinkled with light cheese, plus a bowl of old fashioned oatmeal or whole grain toast.
Have a healthy snack mid morning, such as Greek yogurt and berries, or an apple and almonds. Then have a healthy lunch with lean protein, complex carbs, and veggies. This could be grilled fish over brown rice with steamed broccoli.
Then you start tapering off your calories as the day progresses. For dinner enjoy lean protein and veggies, such as grilled chicken over a large green salad.
Eating this way will keep the bulk of your calories earlier in the day so your body can use them up. It will stoke your metabolism and get it burning efficiently. And it will keep you from late night hunger.
