If you find you are too rushed in the morning to stop for breakfast, it may be worthwhile to change your habit and wake up a couple of minutes earlier.

Research clearly shows that eating breakfast is associated with successful weight loss and maintenance. Brown University and the University of Colorado at Boulder released a study examining the behaviors of those successful at losing weight and keeping it off. To participate, the 4,000+ participants in the study each had to document a weight loss of more than 30 pounds maintained for at least a year. The average weight loss for all participants was 73 pounds, maintained for close to 6 years. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of those surveyed eat breakfast every day, usually cereal and fruit.

Breakfast primes a body nutritionally for its day’s activities. Consuming some protein, fiber and fruit in the morning will give you energy, keep you appetite in check until the next meal, and may reduce your calorie intake later in the day. Specially designed, high protein diet breakfast foods can make it easy to get a perfectly balanced portion-controlled breakfast every day. 

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