Not eating a healthy breakfast is a overlooked contributing factor to obesity.

Best Way To Lose Weight? Eat A Healthy Breakfast

If you were to ask for my professional opinion of what is the single most effective strategy for long term weight loss I would say with no hesitation that it would be to always eat a healthy breakfast. We have all heard since we were kids that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, however despite studies showing its importance in ensuring a longer lifespan and its role in appetite control and optimal performance; it is still the meal most often neglected. A survey of 1000 adults conducted  by the International Food Information Council (IFIC) found that while 90% of Americans are aware that having breakfast is important for health and peak function, a little less than half of them admitted to eating breakfast every day. We can also see from the many studies done on the significant decrease in academic performance by schoolchildren that do not eat breakfast that not only is a good breakfast vital for ideal brain function, but sadly that many adults here in the United States simply don’t appreciate the importance of breakfast for their families.

Want To Stop Your Cravings- Eat A Healthy Breakfast

In the grip of today’s hectic lifestyles, breakfast in general has been relegated to an ‘on-the-run’ meal in the best of cases and a skipped meal in the worst of them. It’s my belief that this trend is an overlooked contributing factor to the pandemic of obesity in this country. Over the past two decades working as personal trainer helping people lose weight and get into shape, I have always found that people who skip breakfast or have a cursory meal consisting of a quick donut or a bagel with some coffee, tended to be the ones who had a very difficult time not consuming large amounts of junk food in the later part of the day. Going over my training notes over the past 5 years, I can also point out that 100% of those who reported their junk food urges as being uncontrollable did not eat a proper breakfast- this from a sampling of well over 200 individuals of varying ages and fitness levels.

A Healthy Breakfast Is An Easy And Inexpensive Way To Control Your Weight

As simple as it may seem, one of the easiest ways to really take control not only your midsection, but also your appetite is to simply eat a healthy breakfast, and then follow through by eating balanced meals throughout the day. The better your breakfast is, the easier it will be for you to continue eating well throughout the day. It has never been my practice to stand idly by while others struggle and so about two years ago I wrote and published a free e-book on my website, The Naturally Intense™ Breakfast Guide- Keys To Long Term Weight Management. It took me just about a night to put it together, and having seen how much of an impact it has had, I don’t regret a minute of sleep that I lost that night. With almost three thousand copies downloaded from people all over the world, I constantly get emails saying how much better they feel and how much weight they have lost after following the guidelines outlined in the book. It’s a quick read and there are no supplements to buy or specialized meals to purchase- just rudimentary information that I have gleaned over the years that you can use to lose weight and keep it off.

Get A Free Copy Of The Naturally Intense Breakfast Guide- Keys To Long Term Weight Loss

I invite you to download a free copy and share it with your friends, and please feel free to write me if it helps you in your own quest for a better quality of health and fitness. I am always happy to hear from everyone.

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Kevin Richardson- celebrity Personal Trainer New York City is the creator of Naturally Intense™ High Intensity Training, a lifetime natural bodybuilder, head of Naturally Intense™ Personal Trainers NYC and one of the most sought after personal trainer in NYC.

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Six pack abs take more than just situps!

Can Sit-ups Give Me A Flat Stomach?

In my now 20 years as a personal trainer I am constantly asked about sit ups. For years considered the Holy Grail of stomach exercises, most people assume that to get a really flat stomach you have to do a couple hundred situps a day. No thoughts on diet or exercise intensity, just do your sit ups and you are on your way to six pack abs. If only it was that easy! The short answer that it isn’t although it might surprise many to learn that I don’t do very much for my abs and sport a six pack all year round. The same goes for many fitness models that grace the covers of the magazines- as situps are not the be all and end all of a flat stomach.

Fact: Working your abdominal muscles is no different from working the muscles in your arms or legs, it will serve to make the muscles bigger and stronger. It will not however do anything to get rid of the fat that surrounds it. Abdominal and hip exercises can strengthen and tone the muscles. But those muscles are underneath the “subcutaneous” layer of fat that gives you the lovely appearance of flab. Only losing weight can get rid of excess fat and doing abdominal exercises isn’t going to make that happen.

Sit-ups Can’t Give You A Flat Stomach- But These Two Important Tips Can!

To reduce fat around your waist you need to do two things:

1. Watch your diet! You need to lose body fat to see the six pack that you are seeking and the only way to do that is to control what you eat!

2. Engage in intensive weight training exercise! High intensity weight training- not aerobics will increase your overall muscle mass which will help you take the weight off your stomach and keep it that way!

Spot reduction doesn’t work. Exercising specific muscle groups in particular parts of the body will not burn fat from that area. If were that simple then everyone that did situps everyday would instantly have great abs- and they don’t. Abdominal exercises are important, though as they help strengthen your torso as well as serve to build the muscles in your six pack region so when you finally do lose the fat in that area, you will have some nice lines to show off!

Click here to get a copy of  Kevin’s free weight loss ebook that helps you lose weight by starting with a healthy breakfast!

Celebrity NYC Personal Trainer Kevin Richardson is the creator of Naturally Intense High Intensity Training™, a lifetime natural bodybuilder and one of the most popular personal trainers in New York City. If you live in the New York metropolitan area and need help losing weight or taking your body to the next level give Kevin and his team a call at 1-800-798-8420 or click here to get started with 50% off your trial personal training session.

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The best exercise for your stomach is ironically one of the best exercises for the spirit as well- to get used to it being empty sometimes.

What we want is not always what is best, and we must sometimes learn to do without.

To paraphrase Rumi, the greatest of archers can shoot an arrow left and it goes right!

We should be careful of what we want!

Celebrity personal trainer NYC, Kevin Richardson is the creator of  Naturally Intense High Intensity Training™, a lifetime natural bodybuilder and one of the most popular personal trainers in New York City. Get a copy of his free weight loss ebook here.