Healthy Meals/Snacks - For Someone on a Diet

[TheCheshireCat]

My New Year's Resolution was to lose 25 Ibs this year... I've been eating pretty healthy, but I'm trying to think of new things to eat. I have 6 meals a day (4 meals, 2 snacks). Right now an average day would look like this:

1) Cereal & an apple (meal)

2) Yogurt (snack)

3) Soup & carrots (meal)

4) Special K meal bar (meal)

5) Cucumber (snack)

6) Weight Watchers frozen meal (Pizza)

Most of this doesn't require any preparation or cooking, but I'd like to start cooking.

Any ideas...

[Anonymous]

I don't think your current diet has enough protein or carbohydrates in it. You might want to try something that I did when my mom cooked the chicken -- boiled chicken with some (one spoonful) of marina sauce with a bit of shredded mozzarella cheese on top. It was my healthy version of chicken Parmesan.

And a cucumber alone for a snack isn't going to keep you satisfied. Add some nuts or oatmeal. You need to eat whole grains too.

And never eat a Special K bar alone for a meal. That certainly doesn't qualify as a meal.

I recommend:

Breakfast - Whole grain cereal (Special K, Kashi, something like that), 2% or low fat milk and an apple or low fat yogurt (Nature Valley makes organic vanilla and strawberry yogurt that is low calorie)

Snack - Cheese stick and apple

Lunch - Big salad with tons of fresh cut vegetables and some lunch meat (the best, usually most expensive turkey or chicken) but if you don't cook or boiled chicken cubed up and oil and vinegar dressing

Snack - Special K bar, water with stevia drops and seltzer water (Stevia is natural, flavored drops that come in an array of flavors: Grape, peach, rootbeer, etc.) so you don't get tired of drinking just water. It's like a cheat for soda that's way better for you

Dinner - The "chicken Parmesan" recipe above with some steamed vegetables (broccoli is good for you)

Frozen meals are empty calories and contain way too much sodium.

Sorry for the long, rather scatterbrained answer.

[TheCheshireCat]

Actually, this was a really good answer. I might take some of these tips, & I like the idea of getting to eat some cheese, I was trying to stay away from that.

By the way, where can I find Stevia? I've been drinking a lot of tea, but I still have one pop a day because I desire something sweet. That stevia might really help me stay away from pop...

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah, I was always told that cheese is bad for you but then I came across an article on YahooShine that proved otherwise. Stevia is probably sold at your local health food store. You can just ask a clerk about it. I don't know if it went mainstream yet. My mom's an organic/health food guru and she's always ahead of the trends. Waters that are now sold in Starbucks with mint my mom carried in her store yearssss ago.

Stevia is great combined with seltzer water. And you only need a few drops of it

[Disputin_Rasputin]

Here's one of my favorites; Russian Skillet Stroganoff:

1 1/2 (3/4-pound) flank steak

1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch

1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil

3 cups thinly sliced onion

1 1/2 (8-ounce) packages presliced mushrooms

3/4 cup low-salt beef broth

3/4 teaspoon salt

3/8 teaspoon black pepper

3/8 cup fat-free sour cream

3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley

3 cups hot cooked long-grain rice

Trim fat from steak, and cut steak diagonally across the grain into thin slices. Combine steak and cornstarch in a small bowl, and toss well. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add steak, and saute 5 minutes. Add onion, and saute 1 minute. Add mushrooms; cover and cook 2 minutes. Add broth, salt, and pepper. Reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in sour cream and parsley. Serve with rice.

Makes 6 servings and 1 serving is about 1 cup of the steak mixture and 1/2 cup of rice.

[TheCheshireCat]

oom, that sounds good :)

[Disputin_Rasputin]

It's very tasty and most of all, easy to make.

[WeaponZero]

My routine on a typical day -

Breakfast - Kashi GoLean Crunch Cereal with skim milk

AM Snack - An Apple OR a slice of whole grain toast with reduced fat peanut butter.

Lunch - Weight Watchers' Smart Ones frozen dinners.

PM Snack - Breakstones' Cottage Cheese Doubles (reduced fat cottage cheese with fruit topping)

Dinner - Morningstar Farms' veggie burger/veggie chicken/veggie wings OR turkey burger OR whole grain pasta with low fat sauce of some sort OR baked tilapia OR chicken breasts cooked a variety of ways OR my own recipe for low fat chicken burrito.

[EddyMetal]

1) Chocolate

2) Chips

3) Baked goods (cookies, brownies, etc)

4) Tacos

5) Burgers

6) Ice cream

7) Pickles

If you want to lose weight just go to the gym and do cardio.

[TheCheshireCat]

I don't think that food is going to help me, but thanks anyway :)

[Enchanted_x3]

I'd love a diet of 1-7. Dill pickles ftw.

[cyrus7]

remember.. if you wanna keep the fat off after you burn it, you have to build some muscle.. so don't forget weight training

[TheCheshireCat]

Yeah, I really need to get a routine started in working out, I'm having a hard time sticking to exercising, I just don't know how to motivate myself. I work all day, so it's hard to come home and exercise. All I want to do is relax, rewind, & enjoy myself. I think I need a physical trainer to yell at me & tell me to exercise, lol.

[cyrus7]

if you need a routine message me and ill make you one :)

[TheCheshireCat]

I would love that :)

[cyrus7]

k message me with what your goal is and ill work it out when I get home :)

[Honda350]

For a meal red beans and rice and for a snack, popcorn with just a little salt.

[Scrimz21]

Yeah just eat fruits and cereal those are good