The 14-Day Breakfast Challenge

The 14-Day Breakfast Challenge is my personal challenge to you to eat breakfast in the manner I've described and observe changes in your energy and brainpower. I know you'll begin to observe significant changes shortly after you begin the challenge, even more quickly than the The 28-Day Exercise Challenge which is why I've cut the time in half. But just like the exercise challenge, the longer you continue, the more of a change you'll see because it takes your body time to adapt to the change in your daily routine. But when it finally does you'll be a more intelligent, more productive, and more energetic form of your old self. After 14 days your body will be well on it's way to adjusting to the change and will begin supercharging itself in the morning. When this happens just make sure you don't become that annoying morning person in the office who walks around whistling and asking everyone if they have a case of the Mondays. If you do, I can guarantee that someone will show you just how bad of a case of the Mondays they really have! Instead, just subtly drop them this web address - TheScienceOfPerformance.com. Just be like "Hey, I found a great website, you should check it out." And they'll check it out because they don't want to do any work before noon anyways!

I realize some people have gone without breakfast for SO LONG or have eaten the exact same thing every morning since the 80s that they have no desire whatsoever to start eating a different breakfast, and actually start feeling a little sick if they change things up. I didn't eat breakfast in college and sometimes the thought of a hearty breakfast made me a bit sick to my stomach. But this doesn't mean you shouldn't eat breakfast, it means you've trained your body very poorly. For those of you that have this problem, start small. You can handle a glass of juice, right? Start there and slowly work your way up to a piece of toast, then maybe put some peanut butter on it, then half an orange, then some oatmeal, and so on. Like I said, your body takes a while to adapt to anything new, which is ironically why most people fail - they try to change but don't see anything happening soon enough so they give up. DON'T! Just do it for 14 days and I guarantee you'll begin seeing differences. If you keep it up for a month or more, you'll wonder how you went so long WITHOUT breakfast and it'll be almost impossible NOT to eat breakfast. In fact, not eating breakfast will probably make you feel woozy. And it should!

If you combine eating breakfast with doing cardio exercise, two months from now your brain will be so much more powerful that the Karate Kid's level of focus and concentration will look like a preschooler dabbling in finger paint. Please don't try to break any 2X4s with your head though, I won't take responsibility. You have to realize that you have the power to reprogram your body and brain to do what you want it to do. Even though your genes determine your basic characteristics, you can influence your genes a TREMENDOUS AMOUNT through what you eat and the activities you partake in to literally transform your nature, making you smarter and more fit. Scientists are beginning to discover just how much control you actually have over your physiology and when the story is finished we won't look at ourselves the same way ever again. But why wait until they've written the entire story? Have the foresight to see what they'll know 20 years from now. That is what separates the mice from the (wo)men. And, you don't have 20 years to waste, do you? Have you EVER heard anyone say "Geez, I wish I hadn't started eating healthier and exercising. I feel so dumb, lazy, and unmotivated all the time because of it. It's like I'm just wasting my life away. Instead I should be watching TV, eating greasy burgers and being in an unpleasant mood all day so I can be angry and yell at people. That's what really fulfills me." I didn't think so.

And isn't AWESOME that something as simple as eating a good breakfast can help you change so dramatically? So here it is. The 14-Day Breakfast Challenge log. Record what you eat every morning for breakfast and rate your morning brainpower and energy on a 0-100 scale at noon every day. The scores you give yourself are entirely subjective. If you feel like a 34, write down a 34. If you feel like an 83, write down an 83. No one can tell you "No, you don't feel like a 67 today, I would say you're a 62." That's just PLAIN SILLY! Best of luck, and let me know how it goes (visit my contact page. If it's okay for me to post your comments as an inspiration for others, please leave your first name, the city and state you're from, and a short statement about what happened during your challenge.

Here are the logs:

The 14-Day Breakfast Challenge

The 14-Day Breakfast Challenge (PDF)

The 14-Day Breakfast Challenge (MS Excel)

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