The Battle of Breakfast, Skipping Meals and the Abominable-Insulin-Ravenous-Monster

I’m sure you’ve already heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well, keeping up with all your meals is very important, but I always take the breakfast as a starting point to help my clients adjust their eating habits, because that’s where the problem usually starts.

Reality is, every single meal will affect the next one. They all create compensatory reactions to the next meal.

As you can learn through the Metabolic Effect Fat Loss Program, the breakfast starts regulating the stress hormones that give you the jump start for the day. If you don’t do yourself the favor to start balancing things out in the beginning of the day, breakfast (and any other skipped meals) will turn into the Abominable-Insulin-Ravenous-Monster that will come back later and bite you in the ass. It generates mood swings, an energy roller-coaster and the sad ability to keep eating continuously and never feeling truly satiated by your last meal. Last meal? If there would ever be one, since you usually can’t stop eating when that happens.

If this sounds familiar, you can make your own experiment

Too Busy Today? How Do You Stay On Track?

What's your busiest day of the week? My Tuesdays are insane. Usually 10 clients + 2 classes. To stay on track working from 5:30am to 9:30pm, I need to have my food ready and plan a short workout, no longer than 30 minutes. I wake up at 4am and don't go to bed until at least 10pm.
I have between 6 and 9 meals, being the majority very small meals, easy to digest: egg whites, protein shake, protein bars, selected fruits, no more than 2 handfulls of nuts (always pre-packed, so I won't have the temptation to get that extra hand), microwaved baked potato, frozen broccoli, pre-cooked meat.
I don't necessarily carry all of the above around everyday. They are my quick and easy choices.
I focus on having 3 full meals. My body then gets a good message that it has been well fed with those full meals and it keeps my cravings under control.
Today my lunch was grilled tuna steak, broccoli and half baked potato. It took me 10 minutes to make it. No excuses. Keeping it simple without a big variety makes it doable and low stress to buy, plan, cook and carry around. What do you do to stay on your fat loss/fitness track?