A good diet plan is one you wont fail, which is one meant for you where you eat the foods you love. The key to the right diet is eating 5 small meals a day between 300-500 calories per meal intake, with enough protein, carbs and fat. Everything on a nutrition label is pretty much, important for your body.
A small example for a days worth of meals is:
Breakfast:
2 eggs, preferably the whites, or not too much yolk.
side of fruit (apple, 1/2 cup of grapes, an orange, etc)
Side of wheat toast light butter or jam
1/2 cup of juice and a large glass of water
Snack (after breakfast before lunch, each meal is roughly 2-3 hours apart)
1/2 cup of trail mix (raisins, nuts, dried fruit)
Low fat yogurt
Lunch:
1/2 Turkey sandwich with lettuce (dark greens not iceburg), tomato (light mayo) or cheese.
Snack 2:
1 cup of protein drink or 1 protein bar
Dinner:
8oz of grilled salmon
1/2 cup of whole grain pasta
side of veggies (corn, carrots, broccoli, etc)
If you get hungry 2-3 hours before bedtime (it is not a crime or against any code to eat after a certain time) you can have a snack, preferably something with protein, if you want to indulge in ice cream just pick a smarter choice like fat free frozen yogurt or low fat ice cream. etc.
I’ve been doing a really good job getting in shape. I’ve learned that losing weight is 80% diet, and about 20% exercise…
…I know it sounds silly putting a percentage on things but here are some of the things that will help…
-I used to think having cereal for dinner wasn’t that bad… but then (after talking with my trainer) I realized that it wasn’t necessarily the foods I was eating that was bad, it was the time of day that I was eating them.
For example, cereal generally has a lot of carbs and sugar, those 2 things are what you want to have at the beginning of the day– instead of at night when you’re going to be resting. If you want something that has a lot of sugar in it, have it in the morning when you have the whole rest of the day to burn it off…
At night, some of the best things to have are: low-fat cottage cheese, vegetables, or even eggs… sometimes a spoonful of peanut butter is good because your body needs the “healthy” fats in order to burn fat. (such as peanut oil, or fish oil).
Another thing to do is wake up earlier and get your metabolism going. After you wake up and go to the bathroom, do a quick set of jumping jacks (100? or a minute) and get your body ready to start burning.
Starving yourself is not an option! Think of your metabolism as a fire… If you don’t eat anything all day and then all of the sudden at night have a bunch of food to eat, your body goes into overload and feels extremely full. With a fire, you want to keep putting in some wood slowly to keep it going, whereas if you throw in all of the wood into a fire at once, the fire burns out…
The best thing to do is eat every 3 hours or so and try and stay around 300 calories, except for your major meals. (=
Exercise helps, but you got to want it and just watch what you eat.
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