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Why You Should Eat Breakfast

Food is fuel and energy for our bodies and without it we spend the day stumbling around in a fog and fighting off a headache and a bad attitude. It increases your metabolic rate (how fast you burn calories) and kick starts your body into gear, telling it what to expect the rest of the day.

If breakfast isn’t had, your body doesn’t process your next meal as quickly and tries to hold onto those nutrients. Since it didn’t get any morning fuel, it tries to hold onto the afternoon meal as long as possible — instead of burning it right away.

Studies have shown that weight loss can be more difficult and weight gain more prevalent in folks who opt out on the morning meal. Those who skip breakfast have a tendency to consume more food than usual the next chance they get to grab a bite to eat and also have a higher tendency to snack on high-calorie foods to keep hunger at bay until then.

You can read more on the topic from our sources WebMD.

Lifting weights increases your calorie burn and keeps fat off!

Lifting weights gives you a metabolic spike for an hour after a workout because your body is trying hard to help your muscles recover. That means you’ll fry an additional 25 percent of the calories you just scorched during your strength session, says Wayne Westcott, Ph.D., director of research at the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, Massachusetts. “So if you burned 200 calories lifting weights, it’s really closer to 250 overall.”

And if you lift heavier weights or rest no more than 30 seconds between sets, you can annihilate even more. And there’s more good news when it comes to iron’s fat-socking power. “For every 3 pounds of muscle you build, you’ll burn an extra 120 calories a day — just vegging — because muscle takes more energy to sustain,” Westcott says. Over the course of a year, that’s about 10 pounds of fat — without even changing your diet.