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metabolism. Don’t tell me that you have a bad metabolism before asking yourself: “What am I doing to slow my metabolism? Am I holding myself accountable for my beliefs and behaviors?”
    The way your body slows your metabolism is to break down muscle. That’s right; your body goes right to the muscle because it is so metabolically active. It reduces your muscle mass in order to keep you alive. It’s exactly like whacking off one of the blades of a fan. Suddenly, even when turning at the same speed, the fan moves less air. But your body only breaks down muscle because you told it to. It was not the body’s desire to do that. Your belief system told you that you didn’t need or want to eat breakfast. This led to damaging behavior–not eating breakfast–which resulted in the outcome–you made your muscle and your metabolism go bye-bye.
    Satiety
    Satiety mechanisms are highest in the morning. Therefore, what you eat in the morning will actually determine how hungry you are later in the day. That’s the reason behind the research that showed an “inverse” relationship between breakfast and your waist. If your satiety mechanisms are firing at full throttle in the morning, then you will get more “bang for your buck” by eating more breakfast. It’s like fueling a fire. When it’s blazing and you throw on another log, that log quickly ignites and keeps the fire burning strong and long. That “ignition” is the response of your satiety mechanisms when you eat more breakfast. Later in the day, you are far less hungry. And be honest. Isn’t it later in the day and into the evening when you really get into trouble with your food choices? By the way, the latest class of diet drugs is tailored to increase a feeling of fullness (satiety), but they are known to have substantial side effects. Eat a substantial breakfast and skip the drugs and the side effects.
    Think about it for a moment. Many of you have to get up early, around 6:00 A.M. If you eat breakfast, you may not be hungry again until noon; that’s six hours later. Then, around 4:00, you get “the munchies” and are rooting around for a snack. That’s four hours from lunch. Then around 6:30, just two and a half hours later, you’re hungry for dinner, and by 8:00, just an hour and a half later, you’re back at the munchies.
    Eating a much more substantial breakfast at 6:00 A.M. will result in you not being nearly as hungry later in the day and probably not hungry at all. Why? Satiety. You simply feel full throughout the day (actually for about twenty-four hours) when you “front load,” or eat a bigger breakfast and allocate more of your calories to much earlier in the day. Eat breakfast and you will physically need to eat less later in the day and at night. The old adage, “eat like a king for breakfast, like a prince for lunch, and like a pauper for dinner” is absolutely right.
    You can control your metabolism by how you behave–how and when you eat, exercise, sleep, stress out, etc. Just skipping breakfast, or any meal for that matter, will weaken your metabolism. Don’t do it ! Even when I drill this into some of my clients, readers, and followers, they still continue to do it. Come on. The excuse that you don’t have time doesn’t fly with me, as I know it takes less than a minute to eat a hard-boiled egg, scoop down a container of low-fat yogurt with fruit, or drink a well-balanced protein shake. Remember, the excuse that you’re not hungry also doesn’t fly, because the only reason you are not hungry in the morning is that your body is tired of asking for food. It just gives up trying and you subsequently don’t feel hungry anymore. You blew out your body’s hunger mechanisms. But you can reverse that by eating breakfast–a key to my plan. To be perfectly honest, the only time you should feel hungry is first thing in the morning. My goal for the rest of the day is to keep hunger at bay. If you still don’t plan to eat breakfast