Your alarm goes off at 7:00 but you switch it off and fall asleep again. The next thing you realize is waking up at 8:30 and your first class is at 9. You definitely don’t have time for breakfast. Scenario one.
You manage to wake up early, say you wake up at 7:00 and remember you have a test you’re not ready for or have an assignment due for submission. You end up studying or writing the assignment till it is 8:45 and your first class is at 9. You don’t have time for breakfast. Scenario two.
Scenario three is you wake up early, don’t have any school work to get done and have plenty of time to eat something. However, you still don’t grab a bite because you’re used to skipping breakfast.
Yet you wonder why you can’t just seem to focus during lectures. Weird.
Listen, I’m not trying to play the saint here. I have bad eating habits myself, so consider this my “good side” telling me and you to think about the impact of missing breakfast brings.
Let us not forget that the brain works on glucose. Learning, thinking and memory need sugar as fuel. If there isn’t enough glucose in the body these brain functions are not at their best. That should solve the mystery of lack of drive in classes, especially in the morning. It’s because a majority of students miss breakfast.
Think about it, let us say you had dinner at 8pm and you grabbed a snack at 11pm before going to bed the night before. You miss breakfast the next morning and wait till you have lunch at 12 or 1pm. That means you have stayed for about 11 hrs without eating anything! That’s almost half of the day on an empty stomach!
Why are you doing this to yourself?
Make a plan. Find a way of at least eating something every morning no matter what. Grab three bananas or something, just eat! If you have to wake up at 6am so that you can have a proper breakfast then so be it.
Otherwise, you’re slowing killing yourself. The effects may not seem very harmful now but your body will eventually give up on you. I don’t know about you but I love myself and will do anything to protect myself including having breakfast every morning.
Call it self-love.
-Wangisani Kumalakwaantu
