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Hey everyone, it's Dr Angela here today to talk to you about the importance of breakfast.

I'm sure you've heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day - and from a scientific point of view, that’s true. We've all heard that, but breakfast can be a real conundrum because if you eat the wrong breakfast, it can really stall your weight loss efforts.

Not all breakfasts are created equal!

So I wanted to clear that up for you today. I’m going to spill the beans about how to actually make breakfast work FOR you and not AGAINST you in your weight loss journey. That's what we're going to talk about today - how to avoid the breakfast conundrum and how to make sure that you're eating a breakfast that's going to support you in your weight loss journey instead of hinder you in your weight loss journey.

If you don't already know me, I'm a board certified obesity medicine physician practicing in Olympia, Washington, and I have an online program called Journey Beyond Weight Loss designed to help people lose weight and keep it off.

So let's talk about breakfast. Here's what I used to do. I had a bagel and orange juice every morning. I'm patting myself on the back three times over because first of all I'm eating breakfast when most people skip. I heard it... "Got To eat breakfast." I'm eating low fat and I'm getting plenty of vitamin C. I thought that what I was doing was really, really good. I have a lot of patients who will eat yogurt and a banana for breakfast thinking that's a really healthy breakfast or they'll eat oatmeal for breakfast, thinking that that's a really healthy breakfast.

I want to explain the science behind why MY breakfast, in particular, wasn't going to serve me. I need to tell you a story about insulin. You may have heard me talk about insulin before. Insulin has three jobs.

Insulin's first job is to bring your blood sugar down after you've eaten.

Insulin's second job is to make fat and it's particularly good at making visceral fat, which is belly fat, which is the fat that's dangerous! That belly fat we all hate. That’s insulin fat. So my low fat bagel has just done the OPPOSITE of what I wanted, it’s caused me to GAIN fat!

Its third job is to prevent fat burning.

Insulin is really precise and really good at its job. It's managing your blood sugar in a very narrow range. And basically - thats about one and one-fourth teaspoons worth of blood sugar in the entire bloodstream. So it's very precise, very good at its job. When you eat a lot of carbohydrates, your insulin levels are going to shoot up, the pancreas is going to get ready and shoot out enough insulin to bring your blood sugar back down.

So here's what I was doing. My bagel is full of carbohydrates, turning instantly to blood sugar - cranking my blood sugar up, sky high. The orange juice? Same thing! Now my blood sugar is high! Guess what? My body is going to produce a ton of insulin to bring my blood sugar back down and that's going to make visceral fat.

So basically - what was happening is - I was doing the exact opposite of what I was hoping I was going to be doing by eating my low fat bagel and orange juice for breakfast!

Now, unfortunately, the problem gets worse - because guess what happens a couple of hours after I've eaten that bagel? Well, my insulin has shot up sky high and now I have a blood sugar crash. So how do you feel when you have a blood sugar crash? I can tell you what I was feeling. I couldn't really focus on my work. I was feeling distracted. I was tired. I wanted to go take a nap and I was having cravings.

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