Big Bro's Breakfast

So breakfast is a hard one for all of us. We all go to sleep with good intentions - wake at 6, you say, slither off the bed and blindly mope to the bathroom. That bit is just about doable. It's the temptation to blindly mope back to the bed for another snooze or 2 that generally ruins well considered plans.

This little one mistook its breakfast for its bed, I think we can forgive

And what is the key to beginning your health journey, well breakfast, of course. We hear it all the time - "need to start your metabolism", "you don't want to start eating up our muscles", "it'll help you concentrate". I couldn't dismiss any of these, they are all true. But there is something more important here.

Attaining what we want from our bodies - whether that be a six pack, just not to be fat or to be a bodybuilder - starts in the mind. It sounds a little Dickensian to say, but discipline is the rather unfashionable method of achieving what we want. It is so simple, it puts all those fitness gimmicks and infomercials to shame. All you need is the ability to see what you want and grab it. And you get there through discipline. There is no magic involved, no cheap trick, no shortcut or easy way. There is one way, which is to work as hard as you can in the time you have and let 95% of things that pass through your lips come to be there through a considered choice.

So, if you can wake up and eat a healthy, considered breakfast before running out of the door then I applaud you, because that is the first step of many... and possibly the hardest!

And, as a reward for reading this far I will give you a little breakfast recipe:

Tell me that doesn't look yummy!

1/2 cup raw rolled oats (Quaker's will do)
1 1/2 cup pro-biotic yoghurt - 2% fat
1 cup blueberries/apple/raisins/prunes/grapes
Small handful almonds
Swirl of honey
Tsp of ground flax seed
Optional - 1 scoop of protein powder




Mix together, preferably the night before, and leave in the fridge until breakfast. Nutritious, delicious and easy to do day after day after day after day... you get the point.

Good eating...