Food for thought

Rethink breakfast and you will cut overall calories, and increase your energy all day long!

Have you ever noticed we think nothing of serving dessert for breakfast? Muffins are just cupcakes with a new name. Cinnamon roles are laden with butter and sugar and white flour. We cover pancakes and waffles with syrup, whipped cream, butter, and jam.

After fasting all night, our bodies are starving for food to help restart and function at their highest capacity. Fruits, vegetables, lean protein and whole grains will do that. Sugar, fatty meats, and white flour will fill you up and then make you want to go back to bed again.

I'm all for eating things that taste good, but let's keep dessert where it belongs. Not as the main course, but as a small treat at the end of a meal now and then!

That being said, if we can agree that it's weird and unhealthy to eat dessert for breakfast, I'm going to put another weird (but healthy) idea on the table. How about a breakfast salad? Nice dark greens, dressed with lime juice, salt and turbinado sugar (just a pinch) and topped with 4 ounces of lean protein. Top with 1/4 of an avocado and round out the meal with a glass of milk and a piece of good quality toast with a tsp of butter. Now that's a power breakfast that will give you energy and keep you going until lunch!!!