400 Calorie Meals = Weight Loss

Lose Weight with 400 Calorie Meals You Can Lose Weight Simply and Easily! With so many people that want a healthy lifestyle and many of them wanting to lose weight, three 400 calorie meals might be a good way to do it. This fuels energy, revs metabolism, and keeps you feeling full longer. If you have a nutrition tracker online like I do, you already know how many calories a day you should be consuming to lose or maintain a proper weight for yourself. If you have no idea, you might want to find a site online where you can learn exactly how many calories you should be eating and how many you should be burning in order to lose the extra pounds. With the 400 calorie meal plans, you can go with the 1,200, 1,600 or 2,000 - calorie meal plans eating 3, 4 or 5 meals a day., depending on what your body requires. It does not sound like a lot of food when you try to measure it in calories, but once you know what you need to do, it is pretty easy to do and keep track of what you are eating. I am going to give a few examples of what you can have that will help you keep your diet under control and your calorie count simple. For breakfast you can eat a lot of different things. Did you know that Two eggs, two pieces of toast (white bread) and one container of low fat yogurt in the mornings adds up to roughly 420 - calories? You can also go to a fast food drive thru and get something fast and keep within the 400 - calorie range. McDonald's Egg McMuffin or a Breakfast Burrito are 300 - calories each and a black 24 ounce coffee has 15 - calories, switch the coffee for an ice water and you save 100 - calories that you can add to a meal later in the day. At Burger King you can get a large order of Hash Rounds or 5 French Toast Sticks, they each have 390 calories. Arby's has the Apple Turnover; just one of those cost a mere 377 - calories while one of their Biscuits with butter is 280 - calories. Now it is lunchtime and you need something quick and to give you a little bit of a pick me up so you drive past Starbucks because of all of the high calorie food and drinks, right? Guess again you can have a tall Caramel Macchiato with 2% milk and whipped cream on top with a Blueberry Muffin and that keeps you well within the 400 calories! A Burger King Cheeseburger has 360 - calories, a Whopper Jr. has 390. Not in the mood for a burger? Try the chicken or fish! A 4 piece Chicken Tenders without sauce ends up being 170 calories so you could actually get away with two orders at 340 - calories and still not go over the 400 - calorie limit that you set for yourself! There are many different things you can have for dinner! A half of a chicken Breast, fried with the bone and skin removed ends up being 97.2 calories so you can add one cup of mashed potatoes for 161 - calories and you still have 142 - calories left! Most vegetables are low in calories so you can indulge (check your calories first!) in quite a few of them, giving you a large variety. Lots of water never hurts, either. Sometimes we feel hungry because we are dehydrated and mistake being hungry for actually being thirsty. There is a plus to drinking water, too! This helps getting rid of the hungry feeling you might get. If you aren't a water fan, finding a beverage that is non-carbonated and under 5 calories per 8 ounces would be more than ideal! With a little bit of research on the calorie content of foods that you like and keeping track of the calories you consume at a level of 400 - calories per meal, you will most likely lose weight. Of course some kind of activity will help speed up your weight loss. Walking is a favorite of mine, you can start off with short distances and a slow pace and as time goes by you can go longer distances at a faster pace. Walking in place or up and down a stairway is just as effective as long as you can do your activity at least 20 minutes a day. Starting out 20 minutes may be too long of a time for some and starting out at 5 or 10 minutes will do for a beginner as long as you work up to the 20 minutes per day. Just remember that any kind of diet and exercise should be Okay with your Doctor before you start and monitored by your Doctor once you begin. With a little determination and a little bit of an effort, you should soon start seeing results within the second week.