How Do You Cut Calories At Breakfast (Without Cutting Nutrition)?
Eating a hearty, healthy breakfast is essential to maintaining an ideal weight. Starting your day with a solid mix of carbs, protein, and fat keeps blood sugar steady and prevents overeating later in the day. But hectic schedules and convenience foods can sabotage that plan as soon as we walk around the corner. Here’s how to avoid empty calories and maintain our health and our waistline. Avoid the whipped cream in coffee drinks, and order café mocha made with skim milk. Steer clear of coffee drinks that taste like milkshakes. Order the smallest size of java rather than the “grande.” A specialty shop blueberry bagel with 2 oz of cream cheese adds up to about 530 calories! Eat only half the bagel and add a serving of fruit. Avoid sugary cereal made for five-year-olds and go for plain oatmeal with fresh berries, bran cereal with banana, or other varieties made with whole grains, little to no sugar, and high fiber. Steer clear of the super-size muffins and scones, which contain 500 or more
