The sugary cereals are bad for you, but even something like Rice Krispies isn't "good" for you (its just not as bad as those). If you really want to eat a healthy cereal, have something high in fiber. It's good to start off your day that way. Choices are Kashi (I think it tastes like crap personally), but I like eating Oatmeal.
Other random tidbits that could be useful to you:
- A gram of carbohydrate contains 4 calories. A gram of protein also contains 4 calories. A gram of fat, though, contains 9 calories — more than twice the amount of the other two.
- One lb of fat is 3500 calories. So essentially to lose weight, one way is to go in a calorie "deficit" of 3500 calories (not in one day, but you could certainly do this one week). This means that you burn more calories than you consume and are burning 3500 more than you are eating in a week.
- The above is okay if you have a lot of weight to lose. However, for someone like me (Im light, and not trying to lose weight, just trying to gain muscle). Rather than worry about calorie deficits I try to eat more. But that doesnt mean junk food because even though I wont get FAT, I wont get FIT either. So you have to increase your caloric intake by having GOOD calories - veggies, proteins, fruit (though dont have more than 3-4, too much sugar). My best friends in terms of snacks are things like protein bars, beef jerky, yogurt, rice cakes, carrot sticks, and celery and peanut butter.
- When you gain muscle, you will lose weight quicker because muscle burns fat quickly. So the more muscle you gain, the more fat you will lose.
- Some people that are underweight think that to gain weight and get FIT, its all about consuming extra calories. This is true, but I repeat, you want to consume good caloires. While you MAY gain weight by eating pizza and pop tarts, you are going to gain bad weight (ie fat) not good weight (ie muscle).
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