Eggs or Cereal: Which Is a Better Breakfast for Weight Loss? According to a 2. NPD food market research study, 3. Americans (one in 1. One of the top reasons people gave for skipping breakfast was, . I grew up eating cold cereal with milk for breakfast. Raised by a single working mother, cold cereal was the easiest breakfast for us kids to grab quickly (and safely - i. The proud leader of the #bgg2wlarmy, Erika Nicole Kendall writes health, fitness, nutrition, body image and beauty, and more here at #bgg2wl. After losing over 150lbs. How many calories should you eat to lose weight? Use this weight loss calculator to get a quick answer. Adjust the number to slim down faster. And I REALLY loved Golden Grahams. I almost always ate a rather large (two serving size) bowl of Kellogg's Special K, Kellogg's Product 1. Kashi GOLEAN Crunch, or General Mills Total cereal, and I was convinced that breakfast was my healthiest meal of the day. How could it not be when those cereal boxes bragged of being fortified with so many added vitamins?! Cold cereal has been marketed to Americans as a . Armstrong Roberts/Classic. Stock/Archive Photos/Getty Images It never occurred to me that my breakfast of cold cereal might be the reason why I was always starving again several hours before lunchtime. When I worked at Beachbody and participated in the fitness test groups for Rev. Abs and LES MILLS COMBAT I was put on a high protein, low carb meal plan, and cereal was never a breakfast option on this meal plan! On the fitness program meal plans, breakfasts were always an egg dish of some sort. I thought it would get boring, but I found out that there were a ton of ways to eat eggs that I had never even tried.
I lost several pounds in just a few weeks and eating eggs for breakfast was a big part of this. The best part: I was less hungry and more full than when I had been eating cereal for breakfast. No sugar crash to make me cranky. From this personal weight- loss experience, it seemed to me that eggs were a superior breakfast choice than cereal to achieve fullness throughout the morning and weight maintenance or weight loss, but I wanted to understand the science better of why. By reading labels on cereal boxes and looking online (and tracking a few of my favorite breakfast cereals in LIVESTRONG. COM’s My. Plate Calorie Tracker), I found out that boxed cereal contains a high amount of sugars. A breakfast of one cup of Kashi GOLEAN cereal and one cup of milk contains 2. That's about six teaspoons of sugar! No wonder I was experiencing a sugar crash and hunger spike halfway through my morning. For optimal health and weight maintenance, the American Heart Association recommends 2. My morning breakfast cereal was pushing me over the daily limit. A breakfast of two scrambled eggs, in comparison, contains only two grams of sugar. If you don't think you have time to scramble your eggs in a pan, try our two- minute microwave egg scramble in a cup. The recipe is below. The breakfasts were all approximately 3. The study found that those who ate the high- protein egg- based breakfast led to increased feelings of fullness along with reductions in the type of brain activity that is responsible for controlling food cravings. Wow. I consulted with LIVESTRONG. COM’s nutritionist Kelly Plowe to see what she thought about eggs vs. Then I discovered two ways I could enjoy a tasty, filling egg breakfast in less than three minutes without even dirtying a pan. Recipe for Two- Minute Microwave Coffee Cup Spicy Egg Scramble with Salsa. Ingredients: 2 eggs. Directions: 1. Coat a 1. Add eggs and milk; beat until blended. Microwave on HIGH for 4. Microwave until eggs are almost set, 3. Top with salsa and cheese. Pro Tip: If you're like me and you don't like having any dishes to wash (not even one coffee cup!), you can hollow out a red or green bell pepper and cook your eggs inside the pepper and eat it! Try our recipe below for the Three- Minute Breakfast Burrito. Coat a 1. 2- ounce microwave- safe coffee mug with cooking spray. Add eggs and milk; beat until blended. Microwave on HIGH 4. Add in black beans and stir again. Microwave until eggs and beans are almost set, 3. When the eggs and bean mixture is hot, spoon it out onto the tortilla, and top with shredded cheese, chopped avocado and salsa. Wrap it up and enjoy. Pro Tip: If you’re one of those people who says even this quick two- minute burrito recipe takes too much time (or that it costs too much to make breakfast at home), check out this guy Trent Hamm's plan where he made himself 3. Then, he re- heats them each morning by removing the plastic wrap and putting them into a microwave with a paper towel. Readers — What's your favorite quick breakfast? Do you prefer eggs or cereal? Which is better for keeping you full, losing weight, and health? Leave a comment below and let us know.– Jess. Jess Barron is GM and VP of LIVESTRONG. COM. A longtime foodie and fan of Farmer’s Market food, Jess can't get enough heirloom tomatoes, fresh figs with burrata cheese, and anything with pumpkin or peanut butter in it! Her love for food fuels her desire to exercise daily. Some of her favorite workout routines include running, yoga, P9. X, INSANITY, and mixed martial arts. She has appeared on MSNBC’s “The Most,” ABC News Now, and XM satellite radio and her writing has appeared on Wired. Yahoo! Follow Jess on Twitter and connect with her on Google+ and Pinterest. Workplace weight loss programs and eating disorders. My workplace just decided to do a casual team- wide (6. Participation is voluntary and each participant puts money in the pot initially plus a dollar for every pound lost. The winner wins the pot at the end. This came at me out of the blue, because I have an eating disorder, and I avoid those teammates who like to talk about their eating and diet habits all the time. But now everybody around me is talking about it all the time, and I thank god nobody has asked me if I am participating yet (everybody is doing it, not just overweight people but perfectly healthy people). This is seriously triggering and upsetting for me. I don’t want to go the the team manager and say “shut it down!” but is there something I can do to raise awareness that there are people with eating disorders around and this sort of thing is a problem? Without actually saying that that person is me, ideally. You can absolutely say to your manager (or anyone else), “You know, this kind of competition and the frequent discussion of dieting that it generates is really problematic for people with eating disorders. Is there a way to tone it down or even reconsider it entirely, in light of that?” My bet is that they won’t call it off this time, but it might make them more sensitive to how and how often it’s being discussed, and it might get them not to do another in the future. But there’s also a chance that it will have no impact, at least in part because it may seem theoretical to them (“some people could. You shouldn’t have to do that, but the reality is that it might have much more of an impact. Also, in the future, if you get a chance to speak up while the idea is still in the planning stages, it’ll often be easier to shut down at that point. You can say something like, “I’ve read that experts now discourage this kind of event because it’s so dangerous for people with eating disorders. And it leaves out people who don’t want to lose weight. How about we do a voluntary walking challenge or something else that isn’t tied to pounds lost?”2. Giving a reference for a coworker who drinks heavily. A coworker of mine recently dropped from full- time to part- time hours by choice — he began taking partial Social Security benefits which limit the maximum number of hours worked per week. At the same time, our growing company was short on desk space, so he began working those hours from home. I probably worked in the office with him for about six months before his arrangement changed. His work is low- level but still in a critical workflow, and consistently reliable though not large in volume due to the limited hours he’s putting in. This seems to be a good fit for him, and as far as I know he plans to continue working this way for the foreseeable future. He’s a nice person, and I still see him at work social events, where he has a reputation for imbibing substantially and often. He recently emailed to let me know I had been listed on his references for another job he was applying for. This would be a live- in assistant for an elderly person with dementia. I am not his supervisor. I do, however, rely in part on his work product to complete my tasks. He has no intention of quitting our company so I will need to continue to work with him. Should I give a reference? If so, what should I say? I don’t feel like I can testify to how he would be as a caregiver, or as a direct report, and this is a job that I feel has a great degree of intimacy with someone who might not be able to speak for themselves. If you took away the “imbibing substantially and often,” I’d say you should give him a reference that speaks to what you know of his work, while clearly explaining the caveats you gave here — you can’t speak to what he’d be like as a home care assistant, but just to his work as a teapot painter (or whatever). There’s still value in that type of reference, because you can speak to things like reliability, ease of working with him, conscientiousness, etc. But the drinking thing gives me pause, given the type of job he’s applying for. But without knowing more details, I don’t think I can tell you whether you should or shouldn’t agree to be a reference. To figure it out, I think your best bet is to give some thought to what you know about his responsibility in general and whether you’ve ever seen him do anything like drive after drinking too much or behave inappropriately to people at these events, and maybe even consider talking to him about your concern to see how he reacts. Should I contact a former coworker who’s lying about having a master’s degree? In my previous company, I worked with a woman who claimed to hold a master’s degree. She includes this information on her resume and her Linked. In profile, and she tells people verbally that she has a master’s degree. Through another coworker, I learned that she in fact is “one class away” from completing her master’s program. I doubt the validity of this because she was notoriously a liar (and not a very efficient worker, either, to be honest). She moved to another state and has since been out of work (nearly two years now). Besides taking personal insult about this (I worked hard and spent a lot of money to put myself through college while working full- time in order furnish my resume with a degree, the honest way), I also think it’s hurting her chances to find work. Once an employer discovers her embellishment, the offers are rescinded and she’s branded a dishonest candidate. On one hand, I feel I should let it slide. It’s her business if she wants to conduct herself dishonestly. But on the other hand, I’d like to send her a message to tell her the best way to find steady employment is to be honest! My field is HR and this is sadly common, I’ve discovered. I feel like I’m the only person I know who hasn’t embellished or outright lied on their resume to get better jobs. Should I send this woman a message? I feel like the only way to change this slimy practice is one person at a time. No, you shouldn’t. It’s really not your business — she’s a former coworker who you don’t appear to be close to and you’re not being personally impacted by her lie, so you don’t really have standing to say anything. Moreover, it doesn’t sound like you even know for sure that she’s lying (although even if you did, that wouldn’t warrant contacting her). Roll your eyes, figure that she’s going to screw herself over at some point if this is true, and move on. My new coworker bites his nails constantly. I am a contractor, and my company hired a new contractor to take on some additional tasks at the site where we work. I am expected to train him and introduce him to everyone so they will know to start tasking him. He bites his nails during meetings. All the time. I sat across from him in one meeting, and his fingers stayed in or near his mouth for at least an hour. He’s only been to a few meetings so far, but I find myself planning strategies to avoid sitting near or across from him in future meetings. I’m sure he is annoying others too. I’ve asked him to take notes during meetings in the hopes that it would curb the nail biting, but it hasn’t helped, so I know I need to be more direct. How do I bring this up without embarrassing him while also being effective in stopping the nail biting? Should I mention this to him directly since I am training him (though we have the same job title so we’re more like peers), or would it be better for me to mention it to our boss at the contracting company? His work has been great so far, so I want to encourage him–not alienate him. I do want to nip this in the bud though since it’s majorly annoying, and I worry that it could cause others to avoid working with him. Oooof. I’m torn on whether this is something you have standing to ask him to stop or not, but ultimately I’m coming down on the side of yes — that you have standing not to demand he stop, but to alert him to it as a thing that’s distracting. I’d just be pretty matter- of- fact about it — “I don’t know if you realize, but you tend to bite your nails throughout meetings and it can be pretty distracting.”I wouldn’t mention it to your boss though, not unless it continues and you think it’s going to cause issues with clients or something like that. In general, it’ll be far less awkward if you say something to him than if your boss does, since it sounds like your boss may not be regularly working with him (and thus would have to address it via secondhand information, which generally isn’t ideal). Asking about nursing rooms before starting a new job. I’m starting a new job next week and I’m also currently nursing a seven- month- old. At my currently role, I can use my lactation room three times a day, which is great. How do I ask my new job about using the nursing room? Do I have to wait until I start? It’s going be physically uncomfortable to skip an entire day, but I think I could do it. No, don’t do that to yourself! Ask ahead of time. Send an email to either your HR contact or your new manager that says, “By the way, I wanted to mention that I’m currently nursing and will need a private spot for pumping a few times during the day. Is that something I need to arrange ahead of time or is there something like that already set up?”Just be matter- of- fact about it, since it’s something that they should be matter- of- fact about in return.
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