Were you aware that a low-calorie and nutritious breakfast can boost your thought process and energy levels? This is true from the evidence gained from school kids who seem to perform better at school after a hearty breakfast. Kids’ levels of attention and concentration are, thereby, not checked as compared to those kids who skip their breakfast.
Experts opine that kids who didn’t skip ‘breakfast’ were also more creative, alert and energetic than those who did. Kids missing out on breakfast were generally sluggish and bunked school.
Top 10 Low-Calorie Breakfast Ideas
Listed below are some ten ideas that can help you serve and eat healthy breakfast before starting off on a hectic day:
- Whole-grain toast draped with fat-free cheese or margarine, one cup of skimmed milk and banana
- Apples cut into elegant slices with thin spreads of peanut butter and fat-free milk
- Bagel with fat-free cheese and a glass of fruit juice
- Flavored yogurt with bread toast
- Any fruit, fat-free’ milk and cold cereal/fat-free granola
- Fat-free yogurt, one banana and your favorite fruit smoothie
- Oatmeal with raisins and skimmed milk. Add some maple syrup on the top.
- Pancakes with yogurt and/or fruit toppings
- Roll fat-free cheese, beans and scrambled eggs on a whole-wheat tortilla
- Banana milk shake with any fruit juice
Low-Calorie Breads
Bread forms a very important part of most meals, especially breakfast. Infact, you name it, everything you would love to binge on is made of bread like — muffins, pastries, etc. Did you know that a single piece of garlic bread can contain as much as 300 calories?
Listed below is a list of low-calorie breads you can pick from:
- Whole wheat bread has 70 calories per slice
- 1 low-fat bagel has 150 calories
- 1 whole wheat pita has about 145 calories
- One slice of rye bread has 80 calories
Breakfast is otherwise an important time to share moments with your family and dear ones. Infact, it is the time when parents can set examples of healthy eating to their kids.
Since everyone lives on the edge of life today, it’s hard to accommodate breakfast in one’s daily routine. Parents should ensure that kids eat their breakfast daily and weekends should be used as an opportune moment to gather friends and folks over for breakfast.
What is Very Low Calorie Diet VLCD ?
A VLCD is a diet plan meant for Obese people to undergo very quick weight loss. It needs constant monitoring of a qualified doctor to take up this diet plan. Intake of food is in the form of bars or liquid shakes for several weeks. Typically a person under VLCD takes 800 calories per day.
What are Benefits of Very Low Calorie Diet VLCD ?
Extremely obese person loses nearly 3 to 5 pounds every week through VLCD. On average 44 pounds are lost over a duration of 12 weeks. Complications associated with obesity like diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and depression show rapid improvement. 15 to 25 percent of the initial weight is lost in the first 3 to 6 months of this diet plan. In the long run, weight loss upto 5 percent can be maintained even 4 years after we start this diet plan. These changes are very motivating for the obese people who desperately seek emotional and mental help.
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Love your advice. Thanks
It’s easy to make your ain healthy and downlike homemade Denny’s flannel cakes with this easy-to-follow Denny’s pancake formula with healthy ingredients, such as Graham Flour and Canola Oil, served with a dollop of cream cheese and thoroughgoing maple syrup or dear , or create your ain healthy hotcake toppings.
I know I make mistakes while dieting and it is good to be reminded that you are not alone and that? you just need to make minor changes. I sometimes feel like a bad person for slipping up on diets so this is very reassuring to me.