Spring - yeah!

Well, after a long week of rain, we have a beautiful, warm and sunny week ahead. As it warms up now might be the time to work on making your evening meals lighter - in volume, but also calories and fat. Remember that the most important meal of your day is breakfast - it gets your metabolism going, and when you raise your metabolism, you are burning both calories and fat. Breakfast is followed by a snack, lunch, another snack and then a light dinner - this allows you to raise your metabolism FIVE times during the day!!! If you miss one of these opportunities, your metabolism slows down, and actually stores fat - who wants that??? The other problem with skipping a meal is that you will be more likely to overeat at the next meal, and/or eat too heavily later in the day - but your body can only process so many calories at one time (400-500 for females, and 600-700 for males - at the most), so any extra calories are stored as fat. This is, of course, for active adults - if you aren't working out, the figures are lower. You can actually lose weight eating more because your body is burning these calories when you feed it regularly, and the smaller portions mean your body is using everything. You want to be hungry when you wake up, feed your body during the day and then slow down at night when you are less active and don't need as many calories. See you tomorrow at breakfast! M.