Breakfast is the first meal that you have at the start of the day as it breaks the fast your body takes during sleep.

A Jamaican Breakfast of Ackee and Saltfish, Callaloo and Saltfish, Fried Plantains, and Fried Dumplings with a cup of mint tea

Most of the time we refer to breakfast we are thinking of the first meal we eat in the mornings after a night’s rest. Breakfast is the first meal that you have at the start of the day as it breaks the fast your body takes during sleep. A fast is usually voluntary abstinence from food or drink, especially as a religious duty, but we use the term to describe going for a certain length of time without eating anything and our seven to ten hours of sleep would be seen as a period of fasting. Most people sleep at night and are active during the day, but this is not always the case. For this reason, this post will be about the first meal you consume after a period of rest, and how its content can give you a boost to have a productive day.

Your breakfast should provide you with energy, and should have at least four of the six food groups. This may seem excessive, but it is important to have a heavy breakfast, to help your energy levels for the rest of the day as well as preventing you from overeating and helping to maintain your mood throughout the day.

Missing breakfast can be detrimental to your body because the brain uses 20% of the energy the body uses per day. Your mood is going to be affected if you are not properly nourished, and it will be harder to maintain focus. It is recommended that you should have breakfast within one hour of waking up, this means no matter what time you wake up.

Breakfast also should be a heavy meal, this is to get the metabolic rate going. This is the rate at which the body burns energy, the higher the metabolic rate, the more energy(fat), your body burns. Something as simple as having breakfast will help with this. This is the reason you are encouraged to start your weight loss journey by planning and having your Breakfast.