Are You Eating Candy for Breakfast ?

By Dr. Johnny Bowden - the Rogue Nutritionist

So here's a particular scenario. 

You see an ad that Special K can help you lose a certain amount of weight in two weeks. So your mornings start with a big bowl of this cereal in skim milk with a banana and a tall glass of orange juice.

All in all, about 300 calories with almost zero fat. And probably some nonsense about whole grains too. What's not to love about this breakfast?

Plenty.

For one, you've raised your blood sugar levels. That triggers your pancreas to release insulin, which among its other duties, stores fat.

Around mid-morning, your blood sugar levels will crash, leaving you cranky and hungry.

Chances are, you'll visit the snack machine for low-fat chips or whatever. Maybe you'll head to Starbucks for a 600-calorie low-fat muffin with a skim-milk latte. Or you'll pull out a 100-Calorie pack, which again spikes and crashes your blood sugar and releases insulin. You might be so ravenous that you cave to those jelly donuts your receptionist brought in.

Can you see the vicious cycle that's playing out?

There's more. Your body can't store protein. Let's say you got sufficient protein for dinner the night before. You're looking at about 12 hours your body has gone without fuel.  Guess where your body's going to get that protein?

From the precious muscle you worked so hard to build at the gym.

To put things succinctly: when you eat cereal for breakfast, you're setting yourself up for metabolic disaster all day. Fat burning is the last thing happening in your body.

I think most people habitually eat cereal because it's a fast, easy breakfast. So I want to propose some healthy, fat-burning alternatives that take about the same amount of time as breakfast cereal:

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