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The Power of your Metabolism

DEFICIENT BREAKFAST

One of the worst habits of overweight people is that they don’t eat an adequate breakfast.  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for anyone, but most especially for those people who want to lose weight and recover their metabolism.

When our body sleeps at night the metabolism slows down because our body enters a “repair” period.  While sleeping, all of the basic functions of the body slow down and even our breathing is much slower than normal.  In order to sleep it is necessary that the metabolism and production of energy slows down in the body. Experts estimate that our metabolism becomes as much as 40% slower while we are sleeping.

When you wake up in the morning your metabolism stays at a slow speed until one of two things happens: you eat food (which gives your body the signal that it should increase your metabolism) or you do exercises (which force the body to increase its production of energy and the metabolism).  In other words, only two things increase the metabolism early in the morning, eating or doing exercise.

It has been found that proteins (meat, egg, cheese, etc.) and fats increase the metabolism more noticeably than carbohydrates (bread, flour, sugar, oats, etc).  If one wants to “awaken” their metabolism early in the morning their breakfast should be high in proteins and low in carbohydrates.

People who don’t eat breakfast and try to go throughout the morning with coffee and a piece of bread, are little by little slowing down their metabolism because they simply aren’t “waking” it up.  The experience of helping thousands of people lose weight has shown me that a breakfast high in proteins (eggs with ham and a half-slice of bread) gets a person to increase their metabolism and gives him a chance at losing weight.  If the morning protein is in the form of a whey protein shake, then the results will be even better.

There is a popular saying that expresses what our food intake should be like.  The saying goes “we should eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a prince, and eat dinner like a beggar”.  This saying is true.  The most important meal of the day is breakfast.  It is called “breakfast” because it is the moment that you “break the fast” of the long hours in which your body was sleeping and repairing itself.  The longest period in which our body is without food is during the hours in which we are sleeping.

The lightest meal of the day should be dinner.  Foods are made of condensed energy.  Eating too heartily at night forces an entrance of energy (food) to the body and going to sleep lowers your energy use, which forces a “storage mode” (fat).  It is an aspect of pure logic; dinner should be like a beggar, not like a king.

In my case, I had to change my habits to be able to overcome obesity.  My habit when I was obese was that I didn’t eat breakfast.  I just drank a cup of coffee early in the morning and went to work.  For lunch I ate “whatever there was” without thinking about it much.  Dinner was always the biggest meal of the day.  I always ate dinners that were high in refined carbohydrates (rice, bread, potato, etc.) along with a sweet dessert.  After dinner I felt so tired and sleepy that I would generally fall asleep while watching television.  It was the equivalent of filling the tanks of an airplane with high octane gasoline and later turning off all the airplane’s engines so that the energy is conserved and stored.  Eating too heartily at night and going to sleep is a sure way to cause weight problems or obesity.

If you want to strengthen your metabolism, it is necessary to begin your day with eating a breakfast high in proteins that is good enough for a king.  Later, continue on to a lunch that has a good combination of proteins and unrefined carbohydrates (vegetables, salads).  Make sure to consume very little refined carbohydrates (rice, flour, bread, sugar, etc.).  Finally, end the day with a light dinner to prepare your body for its period of sleep and restoration.  In conclusion, it is necessary to understand the way in which the human body functions and establish a lifestyle that includes eating food that contributes to your metabolism.