Effective Weight Loss Through Diet And High Intensity Workout Routines

     You're reading this because you'd like to see a change in your body, health or fitness. You probably know that if you eat well, follow high intensity interval training and resistance training exercise programmes, and reduce stress in your life you will get results. But are you being held back? Are you implementing changes you know deep down will help you lose weight and get healthy?

Embrace Change For Real Health And Weight Loss Results

Today I want to talk food, and specifically breakfast. I want to illustrate to you that adopting a new attitude towards breakfast will contribute to huge health rewards. And that it is only in the last few decades that what we now accept as normal breakfast choices have become engrained.

Literally, grains, cereals and sugars dominate the modern breakfast table, and this really is a hindrance to your progress. 50 years ago breakfast would have been protein rich, and nutrient rich, but modern lifestyles, fashions, and marketing have changed all that for quick convenient but essentially unhealthy cereals.

Sorry for ranting, but before you stop me consider this. Just because foods claim to 'contain calcium', are 'fortified with iron', or 'are whole wheat' this does not make them healthy. The trust we have of the food giants who train us with comforting associations of unhealthy foods is at best making us fat, and at worst literally killing us. So read on to adopt a change, and feel awesome!

Green Salads Are great… For Breakfast!

I know what you're going to say because I've heard it before. Its weird, I could never do that, or no way, I'm a cereal addict! But if you really want change, if you really want to improve your health, your body composition, lose weight, or even improve your mental alertness, then maybe you should consider it.

After all, if you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got. And I'm guessing you are reading this because you want a change in your life. In fact most of us want improved health and weight loss - being overweight is a modern problem and a western disease! So, give me a chance and read on.

Spinach, Kale, Lettuce, Rocket, Watercress…

It probably feels a little unusual to consider eating a green breakfast. This is for two reasons. Firstly others around you will be looking at you strangely as they munch their cereal, or skip breakfast all together! Secondly, because you have always eaten other more orthodox breakfasts, it will feel strange.

Change always feels strange bit this does not mean it is bad! So give it a try!

Alkalise Your Body

One of the reasons you sometimes feel groggy when you wake is because you are experiencing an acidic environment in your body. By eating greens for breakfast this will have an alkalizing effect.

In addition to a green breakfast try squeezing a lemon into a large glass of water and drinking at least a pint of water at breakfast.

This will further alkalise your body, and rectify the second reason for grogginess - dehydration. Furthermore, lemons are one of the few fruits not to contain fructose, have many nutrients and vitamins. As before, it may take a little tuning of the senses, bit after drinking it once, I for one love it!

Fibre

Green leafy vegetables are an amazing source of soluble and insoluble fibre, slowing down the amount of sugar rushing into the blood stream and doing wonders to prevent and manage diabetes.

Not only this but fibre is also an essential material for your intestines to use as leverage as they contract, and as a way of cleansing old or bad bacterial - a little bit like a scrubbing brush!

Nutrients

Famous for its iron, spinach and other leafy veggies are packed with other vitamins and minerals too. Magnesium and potassium are needed but often lacking in our bodies, especially if you have high sodium consumption. In addition, other trace minerals are also found in green leaves that fortify our bodies further.

Filling I find these 'living' breakfast food choices filling, which means that I will not pick or snack on bad things later.

Add Protein

I always accompany every meal with a protein, whether that is meat, fish or eggs, nuts or seeds. This is one recommendation I always stick to for a whole host of reasons.

Oils

I'm not sure if it is just me, but plain salad, spinach, cress isn't that nice on its own. Which is a bonus really because having it with extra virgin olive oil, avocado which is full of fats, and a drizzl of balsamic makes it a real treat to eat. The benefits of these fats, if eaten raw as is the case here, is their protective properties and EFA content.

Lose weight

If you happen to be one of the many many people wanting effective weight loss, then adopting this change might just set you off on the road to success. You'll feel strange at first no doubt - I did - but the health rewards, energy and focus you get from a good breakfast is worth it. In fact, I now know a few people addicted to spinach!

I hope this was helpful and interesting, and all the best with your own breakfast experimentation. Thanks for reading!

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