Breakfasts, let's get the whole month out of the way now!

Eat breakfast.  Every day!

Start with fresh fruit.  For example, an orange, 1/2 grapefruit, whatever fruit is ripe, the equivalent of 1/2 cupful.  Then have an egg or 1 ounce of low-fat cottage or farmers' cheese or 2 very thin slices of Canadian bacon or 2 slices of very crisp bacon.  Also include, if you like, 1 thin slice of whole wheat or health bread toast.  Or choose, in place of bread, 3/4 cup whole grain cereal and 1/2 cup skim milk.  You may have tea or coffee, decaffeinated if you prefer, black or with skim milk.  Vary breakfasts as much as possible.  Don't get in a rut.  Stay away from sugar.

Fruits adding up to 1/2 cup:

1/2 grapefruit, iced or baked, or its juice
1 medium orange, sliced, sectioned, or its juice
1 medium peach, fresh or steamed
1 medium Bartlett, Comice, or Bosc pear, fresh or steamed
1 small apple, fresh or steamed
1/4 cantaloupe
1/8 honeydew, Spanish or casaba melon
1/2 cup berries, any kind
1/2 small papaya
1/2 cup ripe mango
1/2 medium banana
1 tangerine
3 apricots, fresh or steamed
1/2 cup fresh pineapple
2 small fresh figs
10 grapes
3 small stewed prunes with 2 tablespoons juice, no added sugar
1 kiwi fruit (a delicious, funny-looking green fruit with brown fuzz all over it; just peel and slice it)

Eggs:

You need protein to start your day with:  1 egg, soft-boiled, hard-cooked, poached in water or skim milk, or baked in a covered ramekin or cooker.  Or scramble it without butter (prepare pan with nonstick vegetable spray), but add 1 teaspoon cottage cheese and you'll enjoy it more.  And and omelet with 1 added egg white, some herbs, or a few gratings of Parmesan cheese, will set you up for the day.  Remember that the calories are concentrated in the yolk; a medium-size egg has 52 calories in the yolk, 15 in the white.  If you are too worried about calories and cholesterol, skip the yolk.  While the yolk has more calories than you might think you would like, it has, among other things, iron, copper, and Vitamin A, and you need them all.