MEAL PLAN??
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lina9496
Cathlete
Have you checked out the menu plans on the South Beach Diet. Phase One is way too constricting. I try to follow a combination of Phase 2 and 3. It is clean eating and allows for treats. There is also a South Beach Diet Cookbook that can give you ideas as well.
So far I have had a bowl of whole grain cereal with blueberries and milk and a glass of V8. For lunch I'll have a 2 egg spinach omelet and a slice of whole grain bread with white tea to drink. Not sure for dinner yet. I might throw chicken breasts and assorted vegetable in the oven and roast some sliced up sweet potatoes. I cook with olive oil and add generous amounts of various spices to the chicken and sweet potatoes. I'll make brown rice or whole grain couscous to for variety. Usually I'll pick from yogurt, cheese sticks, whole grain chips and salsa, cottage cheese and fresh pineapple, apple and peanut butter as one or two snacks in between meals.
I've found that if I stock my fridge and pantry with healthy choices, I don't reach for the chocolate chip cookies my daughter bakes all the time.
Good Luck and I hope that helps
So far I have had a bowl of whole grain cereal with blueberries and milk and a glass of V8. For lunch I'll have a 2 egg spinach omelet and a slice of whole grain bread with white tea to drink. Not sure for dinner yet. I might throw chicken breasts and assorted vegetable in the oven and roast some sliced up sweet potatoes. I cook with olive oil and add generous amounts of various spices to the chicken and sweet potatoes. I'll make brown rice or whole grain couscous to for variety. Usually I'll pick from yogurt, cheese sticks, whole grain chips and salsa, cottage cheese and fresh pineapple, apple and peanut butter as one or two snacks in between meals.
I've found that if I stock my fridge and pantry with healthy choices, I don't reach for the chocolate chip cookies my daughter bakes all the time.
Good Luck and I hope that helps
jansherman
Cathlete
One of the best resources I've found for clean eating is the Eat Clean Diet book by Tosca Reno. It gives several options and lots of sample menus. Check out the website at www.toscareno.com. It's a forum board, similar to this one, and there are numerous topics. I've learned a lot just from the forums!
MEAL PLAN
Hi my name is Stacey Langton and new to Cathe's forum. I am not new to Cathe's DVD's, I have been purchasing and using Cathe's workout tape way before DVD's came out. I love Cathe's workouts.
I agree with Jan Sherman check out Tosca Reno "Clean Eating" website. I have all 4 of her books. There is no food deprivation. You are eating every 2-3 hours (6 meals a day). The clean eating will make you loose weight without feeling like you are dieting. I don't call it a diet, I call it a new way of eating for life.
Please check out her website and sign up for the forum you will gain a whole new understanding of how weight just falls off your body.
Hope that helps.
Stacey
Hi my name is Stacey Langton and new to Cathe's forum. I am not new to Cathe's DVD's, I have been purchasing and using Cathe's workout tape way before DVD's came out. I love Cathe's workouts.
I agree with Jan Sherman check out Tosca Reno "Clean Eating" website. I have all 4 of her books. There is no food deprivation. You are eating every 2-3 hours (6 meals a day). The clean eating will make you loose weight without feeling like you are dieting. I don't call it a diet, I call it a new way of eating for life.
Please check out her website and sign up for the forum you will gain a whole new understanding of how weight just falls off your body.
Hope that helps.
Stacey
Here's some more ideas:
Egg Dishes: 1C Egg Beaters or other egg substitute with one Boca Burger patty crumbled up
(190 cals, 37g protein), or instead of the patty put in a cup of vegetables (I like mushrooms and onions, maybe some diced peppers or tomatoes) (150 cals, 24g protein) or add in 1/4C cottage cheese and maybe a few diced tomatoes (210 cals, 30g protein)
Vegetable Dishes: 4 oz lean meat with about 4C vegetables (I like the pre-packaged broccoli, snow pea, carrot mixes that both Dole and Green Giant make) (330 cals, 32g protein), or a salad with 1C lettuce, 1/2 pint cherry tomatoes, 1/4C feta cheese and 4 oz lean meat (375 cals, 39g protein). I also have a vegetable mix that I make - 2 big cans diced tomatoes, 2 big zucchini, a bag of baby spinach or chard or some other greens, and maybe an onion and some garlic - I put this in the slow cooker or a soup pot and let it simmer for a long time. Then I put a cup or so of this over 6 oz cooked sweet potato and top it wiith 1/2C cottage cheese - it's about 325 cals and 12g protein.
Fruit: I like to mix about 6 oz blueberries with 1C Fage yogurt and 1/2C Go Lean Crunch cereal (or whatever granola-type high protein cereal you have), and that's 315 cals, 24g protein. Finally, I mix 12 oz frozen blueberries, 1C oats, 1/2C powdered nonfat milk and 2/3C egg beaters (4 egg equivalent), cook it in a muffin pan at 400 for about 15-20 minutes. 4 of those are 240 cals, 11g protein.
Hope this helps. Oh, and Pure Protein bars are good - 190 cals, 20g protein (Zone Perfect Bars are tastier and about the same calorie/protein counts, but they have a lot more sugar and are therefore much more addictive).
Egg Dishes: 1C Egg Beaters or other egg substitute with one Boca Burger patty crumbled up
(190 cals, 37g protein), or instead of the patty put in a cup of vegetables (I like mushrooms and onions, maybe some diced peppers or tomatoes) (150 cals, 24g protein) or add in 1/4C cottage cheese and maybe a few diced tomatoes (210 cals, 30g protein)
Vegetable Dishes: 4 oz lean meat with about 4C vegetables (I like the pre-packaged broccoli, snow pea, carrot mixes that both Dole and Green Giant make) (330 cals, 32g protein), or a salad with 1C lettuce, 1/2 pint cherry tomatoes, 1/4C feta cheese and 4 oz lean meat (375 cals, 39g protein). I also have a vegetable mix that I make - 2 big cans diced tomatoes, 2 big zucchini, a bag of baby spinach or chard or some other greens, and maybe an onion and some garlic - I put this in the slow cooker or a soup pot and let it simmer for a long time. Then I put a cup or so of this over 6 oz cooked sweet potato and top it wiith 1/2C cottage cheese - it's about 325 cals and 12g protein.
Fruit: I like to mix about 6 oz blueberries with 1C Fage yogurt and 1/2C Go Lean Crunch cereal (or whatever granola-type high protein cereal you have), and that's 315 cals, 24g protein. Finally, I mix 12 oz frozen blueberries, 1C oats, 1/2C powdered nonfat milk and 2/3C egg beaters (4 egg equivalent), cook it in a muffin pan at 400 for about 15-20 minutes. 4 of those are 240 cals, 11g protein.
Hope this helps. Oh, and Pure Protein bars are good - 190 cals, 20g protein (Zone Perfect Bars are tastier and about the same calorie/protein counts, but they have a lot more sugar and are therefore much more addictive).