Diet Breakfast Meals
Posted on 13. Dec, 2009 by dietman in Balanced Diet
Following up on our article about the importance of breakfast, next step is to discuss the types of breakfast that are well balanced and would be ideal in your quest to lose weight and make you body generally healthy.
Diet meals for breakfast come in many varieties and you as a dieter must not restrict yourself to only certain types. Variety is the best way to get your body into thinking mode and process each food differently. We are like machines, once we get used to doing something repetitavely, its easy for bad things to slip in and make our life a living hell, so by getting your body to constantly adjust to different types of meals, you are conditioning it to be more selective on the digestive process.
This idea does not mean that you should eat something different each and every day, it only suggests that varying the types of meals on a regular basis (weeks, months) will over all be generally helpful to your health.
So what kind of balanced breakfast diet do we propose? Of course we like to keep things simple and simple is the best way in most situations.
To begin with simple, everyone knows about eggs for breakfast tradition, and what a marvelous tradition it is. Eggs not only contain lots of energy, you will need to function the rest of the day, they also contain nutriens and healthy fat generally need by your body to funciton properly. So make sure you get your eggs into your breakfest diet, at least once or twice a week. You don’t need to eat them everyday, but they are required to have in your diet. No matter how you like your eggs, scambled, with cheese, milk or vegetables, they are all good for you. But make sure you eat them in moderation, never eat too much. See our article on portion sizes to decide what is too little or too much.
Next is everyone’s favourite, bacon. Well not everyone’s, but many people enjoy it greatly. Bacon is the type of food that usually goes hand in hand with eggs, so bacon and eggs would be consumed together a couple of times a week. Not too much bacon, one or two strips is plenty. It contains fat, yes, but you should know that you body needs this type of fat also to function, so don’t deprive it. Bacon is a must but in small quantities, no matter which type, they are all good.
Cereal is a good choice for some days, especially if combined with fresh or dried fruit. It provides lots of vitamins, fiber, nutrition, and fat from milk. Make sure you include it in your diet. Adding granola types of cereals will increase the fibre count and it is generally a good idea to have a good serving of fibre a day to help you go to the bathroom and release all of the unwanted material that you body decides not to process.
A fruit salad is not a good choice for breakfast, since it doesn’t provide enough energy to sustain you through the first half of your day. So a toast with jam or butter is a good sumplement. Also, you might want to consider a muffin of some sort. These would go well with a fruit serving for breakfast and provide you with much needed vitamins and energy for the day.
The most essential part of breakfast is off course drinking water/juice/tea. Your body needs to replenish the fluids it might have lost through the night, mainly through sweat and peeing in the morning, so make sure you have a glass or a cup of whatever you like. Remember coffee dehydrates you more than anything else, so having just coffee may not be ideal. You may also substitute water for milk. It is always a good choice since it contains calcium for your bones.
Having just toast for breakfast is not a bad idea, if you have at least two slices with butter or jam, or cream cheese. A bacon lettuce tomato sandwich would be a good choice, since it contains all of the need elements to make you more energetic. A bagel is a type of bread so it generally falls into this category.
Getting the meals right during breakfast is an important step on your road to weigh loss so ensure that these meals are not skipped and always well balanced. A well balanced breakfast will help you go a long way to achieving you weight loss goal, whether it is to lose a few pounds or a few dozen of them.