Weight Loss: Do You Eat Breakfast?

Do You Eat Breakfast?

Written by Cheryl Haining

Do You Eat Breakfast? It is not a myth. Eating breakfast is an important part of attaining and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The morning meal enables your body to refuel itself after enduring a nightlong fast or 10 hours or more. It assists in re-energizing your body’s metabolism and providing sufficient amounts of energy and nutrients for you to survive repparttar

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first opportunity for you to replenish your body’s exhausted energy reserves. Whatever you do don’t waste this opportunity. While breaking repparttar 131277

nocturnal fast is important, eating appropriately is just as essential. Eating a good breakfast, low in fat, and rich in dietary fibre and micronutrients will mentally and physically set you up for anything repparttar 131278

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Why Breakfast is Important. By choosing not to eat a well-balanced breakfast you may be putting your health in danger. Studies have shown that people who regularly skip breakfast are more likely to be overweight and have less energy than those who always eat breakfast. The consumption of a healthy breakfast has been shown to improve short-term memory. People who regularly eat breakfast have less fatigue and lower cholesterol level than those who skip breakfast. Research has demonstrated that children who eat correctly at breakfast perform better in class and produce higher marks than those who do not. If you want to have an improved, healthy body then it is vital to eat a nourishing breakfast. Research has shown that skipping breakfast causes a lowered metabolic rate, which means fewer calories burned throughout repparttar 131279 day. Over time this has repparttar 131280 potential to lead to an unhealthy Body Mass Index.

Improve Your Self Image – Improve Your Body Shape

Written by Cheryl Haining

Improve Your Self Image – Improve Your Body Shape How you see yourself and feel about yourself is vital to your success and happiness. You can achieve your desired goals with repparttar

right tools. A regular mental workout will keep your self-image in shape.

Self Image This is a generally neglected area in people’s life. It is closely connected to repparttar 131273 success or failure of any undertaking. Self-image is your true opinion of yourself. A personal account of who you are, visually, mentally and physically. Most of us do not work on our self-image. We battle against it, disbelieving and ignoring its existence. History repeats itself when we do not attend to repparttar 131274 needs of our self-image. Learn how to improve your self-image by putting repparttar 131275 following steps into practice. When you apply these principles on a daily basis you will see amazing results.

Self-diagnosis Make a list of all repparttar 131276 negative thoughts you have about yourself. Things like “I always eat ‘bad foods’, my life is always a mess, I procrastinate, I am no good at this, what if it doesn’t work?” etc. When you have finished write another list including everything you like about yourself. Make this list longer than repparttar 131277 first. Only use positive language. “I am a good listener, I dress well, I understand nutrition, I am always on time” etc. Now take every item on your negative list and create its positive opposite. “I always eat bad foods” becomes “I can choose to eat healthy foods”. This new list becomes your active List for Improvement. This is a very important step. The brain will accept as true all repparttar 131278 information you feed it.

Decide on your new Self Image Now that you have an improvement list, create a new image for yourself. Regularly visualize yourself doing and being everything on your list. Vividly depict repparttar 131279 areas of your life you are changing or improving. When you go to bed at night spend 5-10 minutes watching repparttar 131280 new you. You may be thinner, have a great body shape, very fit, fantastic friends and social life. These mental images retrain your self-image and reinforce your desires. The brain doesn’t know repparttar 131281 difference between what is real and what is vividly imagined. You can turn your desired images into reality. Decide you want a new image and get busy mentally creating it.

Focus on success. Keep a daily diary listing all your successes. As you progress repparttar 131282 number of entries will grow. Your self-image will strengthen and mirror your list of improvements, giving positive reinforcement to repparttar 131283 new you.

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