Scene (6:00 am): alarm goes off, you roll over and look outside — it’s still dark out. As you reach your arm out from under the covers you realize how much warmer and more comfortable it is in your bed. You then begin hitting snooze every 10 minutes until you realize if you don’t get out of bed now, your morning workout is a goner. So, you get yourself up and out the door for a quick workout. But, when you return home you realize all that snoozing left you with about 20 minutes to shower and get out the door to make it to work on time. Forget any type of sit down breakfast; you’re missing it altogether. Sound familiar? Maybe it’s not the workout that led you to skip breakfast; maybe you are rushing around trying to get your kids out the door to school, or your dog took extra long to do his business today. Whatever the reason, missing breakfast shouldn’t be an option. Unfortunately, it’s probably the most missed meal of the day, sometimes even by otherwise healthy eaters.
Breakfast not only gets your metabolism going for the day, but research shows that people who eat breakfast are more likely to be of normal weight, and breakfast skippers have a tendency to eat more later in the day. So, how can you fit a delicious, healthy breakfast into your busy morning?
Continue reading my Runner’s Plate post on irunnerblog for some quick, healthy, on-the-go breakfast ideas.
- your food and fitness friend.