We’ve all heard the adage “breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” but in addition, we need to eat the right kind of breakfast and actually be able to have time to do so.

Eating breakfast jump-starts your metabolism, which gets your body burning calories to fuel your brain, organs, muscles, etc. Your metabolism works best when fueled by small meals every few hours, and when you wake up in the morning, you haven’t eaten for about eight hours. Your metabolism is on “slow” until you eat. If you don’t eat breakfast, it stays on slow.

When you eat the right things for breakfast, your metabolism gets a kick-start, your body is geared to burn fat rather than store fat, you feel satisfied not hungry, you can think clearly, and you are more productive, patient and learn better.

To make your breakfast do all these wonderful things for you, you need three things at every meal: protein, fats, carbs. That’s where the whey protein shakes and smoothies come in. High protein drinks are fast and easy to make and still give you the necessary protein to satisfy the checklist.

Four Key Items For a Fast Metabolism Checklist

Get these items in at every breakfast and your day is off to a great start. Follow this checklist for every meal, and you”ll have a rock star metabolism all day. Every meal should have:

Here’s why getting these items in at each meal will keep you burning fat instead of storing it. Your cells need the carbs to function (they’re the actual fuel/energy) but need the protein and fats to take in the carbs you’ve eaten in a steady stream. If you get only carbs or too many, you get a “sugar rush” and then crash and go into starvation mode. This means nothing functions properly. You can’t think. You’re hungry and tend to overeat. And whatever carbs/glucose you do eat in this state is stored as fat not used as energy. But follow the fast-metabolism checklist, and you’ll:

Having a whey protein shake, protein drink or smoothie first thing in the morning ensures that your carbs are time-released, your metabolism gets a kick-start, your body is geared to burn fat rather than store fat, and you feel satisfied not hungry. Mix in fresh berries, yogurt, cinnamon and other tasty favorites for a delicious meal.

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Everyone knows that exercising can help speed your metabolism and help burn fat. But did you know that nutrition is actually more important than exercise when it comes to staying lean? And that if you cut back on exercising, you can still stay lean as long as you eat well? (That’s where the best protein drinks come in!)

 A recent study conducted by Loyola University, University of Ibadan, Howard University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and University of Wisconsin, and published in the September 2008 issue of the journal Obesity, showed some very interesting results when it comes to exercise versus nutrition. 

The study took a group of obese African American women from metropolitan Chicago (average weight: 184 pounds) and compared them to slender women in rural Nigeria (average weight: 127 pounds). It was expected that the slender Nigerians would be much more physically active and burning more calories than the obese Americans, but the researchers found that both groups of women, slender and obese, had the same activity/energy expenditure levels! 

Their diets, however, were dramatically different. The women from Chicago ate 40 – 45% more fat and plenty of high processed foods. The women from Nigeria, on the other hand, ate plenty of fiber and unprocessed carbs and skipped the fat and animal protein, or just ate small portions of them. 

So what can you do to eat right to stay lean? Follow This High Protein Shake 3-Point Plan! 

#1. Eat the right ratio of foods at every meal. What’s the right ratio? A fist-size of lean protein, a fist-size of unprocessed carbs and a thumb-size of healthy fats. Your body needs the carbs to: 

• provide glucose to fuel your body and brain — glucose = fuel 

• provide fiber to curb hunger and stabilize blood sugar 

• burn body fat — if you don’t get a steady supply of glucose your body thinks it’s in emergency “starvation” mode and stores everything as fat instead of using it as energy You need the protein and fats to turn the carbs into glucose and create that steady supply. 

#2. Cut out processed carbs and other processed foods. They provide no nutritional value whatsoever. And when you eat processed foods, your body maintains excess water weight. It also stores fat because it’s in emergency “starvation” mode because it’s not getting any nutrition. 

#3. Eat a high protein shake for breakfast and plan ahead by having the ingredients on hand. This is so you can actually do points one and two. These shakes are easy to make, taste great and contain the optimum nutritional ratio. Plus, you can have them as a snack or as a meal substitute. To make the best protein shakes, add the following ingredients to a blender and mix to desired smoothness: liquid (water, non-fat milk, plain soy milk or plain almond milk); pure protein shake powder; good fat (omega oil, flax; green powder; fresh fruit; ice; optional essences and spices (vanilla, mint, cinnamon, nutmeg, or ginger). 

Ready to stay thin without exercising all the time? Start by getting the ingredients for your fast-metabolism smoothies that you can eat all day long…

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