It’s a Saturday and I am decorating…Not very romantic 
Couldn’t resist a youtube browse in between coats…Now I am a romantic and yes unashamedly so.
So I’m planning a few videos of some of my favourite romantic scenes from the movies. Oh and apologies to the ‘new’ boyfriend who took me to see this and that was our last date.
Here’s number 1, sit back and enjoy…
Jayne x
Tim is back on my blog with his take on the importance of Breakfast. I asked Tim to share his thoughts as this is one of the most skipped meals that I come across when I’m coaching and mentoring with women and weight issues.
If you want to maintain your weight and stay healthy, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A healthy breakfast is beneficial in two ways: physically and psychologically.
On a physical level, breakfast supplies your body with much needed energy after a prolonged period without any nutrients. When you sleep, which for most of us is typically 6-8 hours a night, your body isn’t being fed. The gaps between our meals when we’re awake are smaller than this, so it’s so important to eat something when we wake up to replenish our bodies, providing it with energy.
Another consequence of not eating while we sleep is the slowing of our metabolism. Everything slows down while we sleep to give our bodies a rest, including your metabolism which slows down by around 15%. If you wake up and eat breakfast, this kick starts your metabolism, sending a message to your body that regular waking service has resumed.
But if you skip breakfast your body doesn’t get the memo that your metabolism should go back to normal levels and it stays slower, creeping upwards throughout the day. Over time this can cause your body to hang onto excess weight as it burns energy slower than it otherwise would. Just getting the simple habit of eating breakfast can causes you to lose weight and feel better, as your body become will become more effective at burning energy.
Eating breakfast has great psychological benefits too. Eating something nutritious goes some way to ensuring you get out of bed on the right side by giving you a burst of energy to start the day. Breakfast provides you with the physical energy and mental clarity you need to perform in the morning. And if you can have a good morning, then you will have created positive momentum for the rest of the day. Don’t you find it easier to have a good day when you’ve had a good morning? This is in contrast to not having enough energy and feeling distracted, leading to a sluggish morning that drags. These are symptoms of working on an empty stomach, easily rectified by a hearty breakfast.
A healthy breakfast also sets the tone for everything you eat for the rest of the day. If you’re making an effort to eat well, you’ll have created a benchmark of sorts that every other meal has to live up to; you’ll try your best to ‘keep a clean sheet’ to borrow a sporting phrase. But if you don’t eat a healthy breakfast or eat no breakfast at all, you start the day with no momentum. It can lead you to rationalise that the day hasn’t been a success in regards to eating well and that you’ll ‘start again tomorrow’. But this can play out everyday to the point where tomorrow never comes. The best way to break the chain is to start as you mean to go on, eat a healthy breakfast and set the rest of the day up in style!
Great stuff Tim and you’ll be back next month, can’t wait! After my disordered eating of the past I don’t miss a meal and love the energy that breakfast brings. Hopefully we’ve reached someone today and they’ll be reaching for breakfast instead of skipping it!
Tim has asked me to tell you that if you post a question on Twitter he’ll pick some of his favourites to answer on his blog. Just use #AskTim as the hashtag and get your questions answered! Here’s mine…Whats the best exercise for strengthening my core #AskTim
Jayne x
#thebreakfastclub on Twitter is a super supportive and positive place and it has taken place each weekday morning from 6.45-8am with me Dinah Liversidge, Liz Bisson and Lisa M Settle for 7 months. I wonder if you realise that it’s actually really taken off because YOU, the members, all join in and tweet positively, reach out and support each other. Yes in the past 7 months you’ve created your own very special place and have you realised you’ve created a very positive morning habit? Yes you’ve proven the point that doing something frequently can become a great new habit and we all have the choice now to continue this! I’m sure Dinah will blog about the subject of choice.
As with all good habits it’s great to make change and practice it for ourselves and we feel it’s perfect timing for all of us to practice this without having to follow a hashtag each weekday, we’ve made friends and we share naturally. So from the week commencing Monday 21st of May the official #thebreakfastclub 6.45-8am will be running on a Monday – to beat the blues and a Friday – hey it’s the weekend. You’ll still catch the 4 of us at some point, yes I will still be up at 6am enjoying my new habit and making tea. You can tweet me, Dinah, Liz, Lisa or whoever you love to spend time with, all that’s changed is there’s only 2 official BC days. No loss and so much to gain!
We’ll still support #CT of course with good causes and feature them here.
SO it’s your chance now to really see what a great habit you have and discover how much better the habit is and how positive it makes your day feel. Now you’ve learnt how important people and positivity are to you, we do hope you’ll keep on tweeting and meeting face to face and of course join us on a Monday and Friday and at LIVE events.
On that subject we’ll have 3 live events a year and the next on is going to be at a Starbucks TBC near Waterloo on Friday 28th Sept from 9.30-12.30 so that will be great fun and you are so welcome!
We all look forward to continuing with hugs in mugs and helping to keep all our mornings a great and positive place!
Hugs from us all,
Jayne x
