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diet
someone please get me diet foods! like what can i eat exactly for breakdast lunch dinner? snacks? please help.
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Eating 3 meals is important, but you should also try to have snacks in between meals too. Especially try to have snacks between lunch and dinner. This boosts your metabolism, prevents you from overreating later. Also its important to eat enough because it will help you feel less tired and give you more energy to exercise.
Breakfast: It's very important so don't skip it. Try to have a hot breakfast, like oatmeal or cream of wheat. You can buy instant oatmeal packets that are very easy to make! They're low calorie and they fill you up. Or, have a granola bar and maybe a banana. Granol bars are faster to eat than cereal and they're low calorie. (Try Quakers!) Bananas are very low in calories and its fruit, so you're getting your serving of fruit. Or you can drink fruit juice.
Lunch: Sandwiches are probably the easiest thing you can have. You should try eating very lean meats such as chicken and turkey cold cuts. Eat a small amount of turkey or, try low calorie, vegetarian turkey: Tofurkey. You can buy it in deli slices. It tastes almost like real turkey! Cheese can be fattening, so try to stick to regular American cheese which is low calorie, or if you feel like a change, try some soy cheese. It's usually near the soy turkey. it tastes exactly like cheese, but most soy based cheeses are only 35 calories. Skip out on the mayonnaise- its pretty high in fat. Try mustard instead. Also try to drink milk or water, and its FINE if you have a few pieces of candy for dessert.
Snacks: Good snacks that are low calorie are: yogurt, pretzels, fruit (like apples and bananas.), raw veggies, animal crackers, or my favorite- Quaker Rice Snacks.
Dinner: Eat a dinner that will fill you up. You don't want to wake up at 5 in the morning feeling starving. Try eating a frozen dinner, the best kinds are: Lean Cuisine frozen dinners & Healthy Choice Frozen Dinners. If you actually want to make something, try making something with rice. Rice is very filling and good for you, so things like stir fry would be good. Stir fry gives you veggies, meat, and grain. Also try to have bread with your dinner. And make sure you drink a glass of milk.
Dessert: You shouldn't cut out desserts or junk food completely. if you don't eat ANY junk food, you will probably give in and eat alot of it later. That's why its VERY important to allow yourself to have 2 or 3 junk food/ desserts a day. So allow yourself to have 2 cookies, or 1 cookie and a few pieces of candy. (It's not as many calories as you think.)
Beverages: Drink Milk, Juice, or water when you can. Starbucks drinks are VERY high in calories. Did you know that frozen coffee drinks have as many calories as a whole meal?! Yup-so coffee drinks should only be for special occasions. Same with soda pop. Soda pop=bad for your weight and teeth. Try to cut down your soda consumption to only one soda per day.
All of this will help, but of course exercise will also help you too.
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its important to eat during the day. eating whole grain foods, eggs, milk, salad, and FRUITS AND VEGGIES!
eating SIX times a day.. small portions of course. will keep you from snacking.. and craving those junk foods we all love.
skipping meals does NOT help. it slows down your matabolism. and when you are finally hungry and do decide to eat, it will take your body a while to process the food because it is slow.
another tip, do not ban yourelf from eating a candy. i know you want to lose weight. but if u have it.. lets say maybe once a week or 2 times.. it wont throw off your diet. your body needs fat. ALSO it will keep u from holding off to long and eating too much of the wrong food... once in a while is good, just excercise and try to stay away from frozen foods or preserved foods with too much sodium
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Well here are some meal examples:
- oats (50- 100g) in skim milk
- A whole egg, a few egg whites, a slice of whole wheat bread and a piece of fruit
- Cottage cheese preferably low fat (about 150- 250 grams) + piece of fruit + a few walnuts
- Skinless chicken/ turkey breast, tuna or other lean meat(about 100-150grams) + 50g whole wheat pasta or 75 grams basmati rice, or a baked potato, or a slice of whole wheat bread + a small salad or something similar
- Other things to add here and there might be things like oily fish, a few olives, unsalted nuts of all sorts (in small quantities), flax seeds, small amounts of a good oil (e.g. canola, olive oil etc). These things will give you the good kind of fats you need.
You will notice I put a range on the weights of the foods above. Thats since the size of the meal depends upon your calorie needs, which in turn are dependent on your weight and activity level.
I would not bother with the traditional breakfast- lunch- dinner. Aim for 5 meals a day instead, eating every 3- 4 hours. You can snack occasionally, but with this sort of meal plan I would say its preferable you dont.
Good luck.
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