BREAKFAST SNACKS...IMPORTANT

So this morning I woke up earlier. I told y'all I was gonna work on it. Now I just have to keep it up. I was up and moving around by 5:25 am. YEAH! Had my coffee, my cereal and my P90X KenpoX. Very interesting video. It's a little hard to control my knees doing some of those twists. I had to be really careful with that. But it was a good cardio workout. After that video I hit the cloudy cold streets for a brisk 3.5 mile run. My time is still about the same. It's good to be just under 11 minutes so that my next half marathon I will have a decent time. I'm just worried that the next half is going to be partial up hill. UGH!!!

Anyhow, the focus for today's blog is BREAKFAST for an active lifestyle. I'm sure you are tired of hearing how breakfast is the most imporant meal of the day...but IT IS!! And what's just as important is that breakfast snack. If you are an early riser you have to plan for these breakfast snacks so that by the time lunch comes around you aren't starving yourself and throwing your metabolism through a loop. I have my favorite morning snack. If I don't have time for toast (which I still enjoy the Sara Lee 45 calorie / slice wheat bread) I enjoy my Fit 4 Soy Strawberry Creme bars from Apex. I buy them by the box at my local 24 hour fitness. I really like the bar because it's 160 calories, 4g of fat, 200mg sodium, 27g carbs, 3g fiber, 11g sugar and 8g of protein. It's not the most lean bar out there but I also love the flavor. It's kind of higher in sugar than I really like but it tastes great and goes well with my second cup of coffee or a bottle of water. It helps me when I'm feeling some hunger pains but it's a little too early to eat my next meal.

Whatever you have for breakfast should be accompanied by a breakfast snack. Especially, if it's something that you can enjoy on the run. Coming from someone that applys her make-up in the car on my way to the first meeting of the day it is a LIFE SAVER.

Well figure out what snack works for you and you work the hell out of it. Snacking can be good when it's controlled and you know exactly what you are consuming.

Until next time...Tootles