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Meal 1: Oatmeal

Meal 2: Crab stuffed mushrooms

Meal 3: Crab stuffed mushrooms

Meal 4. Brown Rice California Roll

Meal 5: Pieces of chicken breast I made and peanut butter.

Meal 1: Oatmeal and Fruit

Meal 2: Protein Bar & Gatorade

Meal 3: Chicken Breast with stuffing and hot sauce

Meal 4: Jellof Rice and Stew with wine

Today was a mediocre day.  Working long hours still, I don’t even know what a vacation looks like.

Meal 1: Oatmeal

Meal 2: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie and half of a pepperoni pizza sub on wheat with hot peppers, and pickles from Potbelly’s

Meal 3: The other half of the sandwich

Meal 4: Oatmeal Raisin Cookie from Starbucks

Meal 5: Tuna in a Pack, the Rotisserie flavor and dried apples

Meal 6: Orange and Suya.

Breakfast is the first and most important meal of the day. However, it is often overlooked and that’s a shame. Trying to lose weight without making breakfast part of your daily meals is like trying to approach that hot chick in the club, and your breath smells like week old Funions, you’ve lost before you’ve even started.

The first and most important part of a healthy breakfast is a good energy source. Energy comes from carbohydrates.  Breakfast cereals are okay but most of them are also full of sugar and “bad” carbohydrates.  (Side Note: If you’re over the age of 12 and you’re stiil eating Lucky Charms, you not only need to grow up but you are also doing your body a huge disservice. )

Oatmeal: Cereal for Fatties

Instead of the typical box top cereals, try oatmeal. Yes regular plain oatmeal is a great fire starter for your metabolism. On top of that it sticks with you and helps prevent those mid morning and early afternoon munchies. You can add strawberries, bananas, etc if you want to spice it up or you can even add brown sugar if you have a slight sweet tooth. If oatmeal is not your style and you want to be down with the brothers, you can try Cream of Wheat, to experience the traditional poor African American man’s breakfast.

The Black Man's Oatmeal

Some people don’t have enough time to make breakfast so you can buy the quick packs. All you do is add hot water, or milk and you can enjoy your hot breakfast in the 10′x10′ corporate prison known as your cubicle.

To-Go Packs: For the Yuppie Fatty on the Go!

On top of the carbs needed to give you the energy to start the day, you also need to add protein to your breakfast. The best source of protein in the morning is eggs. However, its not feasible to cook eggs in the morning every day if you have a 9-5 or 9-till whenever it gets done as is my case. Instead you can buy egg white mix. Egg whites give you all the protein of eggs without the cholesterol associated with the yolk. Egg whites are especially good if your trying to develop lean muscle mass.

Egg Whites are all right!

So if you’re trying to tone up your arms for the summer, egg whites and low weight/high rep arm curls will help you get there

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