Start Each Day With A GOOD Breakfast
48. Start each day with a GOOD breakfast.
On your mark, get set, GO! This Tool works well with 10, which is Get up earlier. We are trying to get the most out of each day to help us accomplish our goals. We can’t do that as well if we are stumbling out of the starting gate each morning. This Tool has so many benefits. The first and most obvious (and aha, once again relates to the last Tool) is that we want to fill our body with nutrients to get our day started off right.
Our body actually decides how to approach the rest of the day based on what is put in it to start the day. One of the cool things about starting the day with a hearty breakfast is that you will turn on your body’s internal furnace and burn more calories throughout the day. Second, you will not be as hungry throughout the day and you’ll consume fewer calories daily by having this crucial first meal.
If you look at old TV shows, breakfast was family time, it was thinking time. It was a way for people to huddle together and come up with a game plan for how to start the day and then achieve what was on the plan for the day. If it is just you in the morning, have a meeting about yourself. Read over your blueprint to set your targets for the day.
Also, this Tool does not work unless it is a GOOD breakfast. I’m not going to get into what you should be having for breakfast. I truly believe you understand that having a doughnut or sitting down at a fast food restaurant is not what we are talking about. The cool thing, too, is you can have a pretty good sized breakfast. So if you are the type of person who finds they eat too much in one sitting, this may also work for you.
Eating a big morning meal will make you less likely to feel the need to do this at later meals. I find lunch to be my biggest “high risk” meal for many reasons. Be it work, being away from home, or just a lack of time, this can be the meal I stumble on the most. By eating a large healthy breakfast, I find I almost forget about lunch, instead of it being on my mind all morning. Also, I find that I’m not that hungry and can get by with some fruit or something smaller than the full portion I would normally get. If you want to get the most out of your day, try this Tool for 21 days and see the changes that start to happen almost automatically.