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.

Low Calorie Lemon Chicken Stir Fry

Low Calorie and Easy Chicken Recipe

This is a great low calorie chicken recipe that is tasty and filling for everyone. Just because you or the whole family are eating low calorie meals does not mean that you have to eat food that tastes like you're eating cardboard!

I have a great recipe to share that is low calorie but no one has to know that it is low calorie except you!

Lemon Chicken Stir Fry

Makes: 4 servings, about 1 1/2 cups each
Active Time:40 minutes, Total Time: 40 minutes Nutrition:Per serving: 225 calories; 6 g fat (1 g sat, 3 g mono); 63 mg cholesterol; 14 g carbohydrates; 27 g protein; 3 g fiber; 448 mg sodium; 796 mg potassium.

Ingredients

1 lemon
1/2 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
3 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
10 ounces mushrooms, halved or quartered
1 cup diagonally sliced carrots, (1/4 inch thick)
2 cups snow pea, (6 ounces), stems and strings removed
1 bunch scallions cut into 1-inch pieces, white and green parts divided
1 tablespoon chopped garlic

Preparation:

1. Grate 1 teaspoon lemon zest and then set aside in a small bowl. Juice the lemon and whisk 3 tablespoons of the juice with broth, soy sauce and cornstarch in a small bowl.

2. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook, stirring occasionally, until just cooked through for 4 to 5 minutes. Move to a plate with tongs. Add mushrooms and carrots to the pan and cook until the carrots are just tender, about 5 minutes. Add snow peas, scallion whites, garlic and the reserved lemon zest. Cook, stirring, until fragrant, 30 seconds. Whisk the broth mixture and add to the pan; cooking and stirring, until thickened, 2 to 3 minutes. Add scallion greens and the chicken and any accumulated juices; cook and constantly keep stirring until heated through for 1 to 2 minutes.

3. Enjoy your meal!

3 Day Juice Diet

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I checked into this diet a couple years ago. The way it goes is that you take vitamins and supplements and for three days you just drink juice, basically any time that you feel like you are hungry and you lose up to six pounds in that three days. I went and bought myself a whole case of little fruit juice bottles, all different flavors so I at least had a choice of different flavors.

I did try this diet and yes, I did lose the six pounds in the three days but I don't think it was really worth it. Within two weeks I gained four of the six pounds back. I felt like doing nothing, it zapped any energy I had an I didn't feel like doing much other than sitting in my recliner watching TV or surfing on my laptop,

I didn't have any real benefits from this diet.

The Dukan Diet - A Review

Dukan Diet

 One day while reading a magazine, I read a story about a woman that was consistently losing weight and what I read seemed like a pretty easy way to go about losing weight on this one particular diet.

Diet Cake?! Nah, I didn't think so!! 

The things that caught my attention to it was that Kate Middleton and her Mother were on the Dukan Diet to prepare for the Royal Wedding and everyone was under the impression that Kate had turned anorexic. What I was reading was describing the dukan diet in general, mentioning that if I ate certain foods, I could eat as much as I wanted as long as I only ate those certain foods and drank 1.5 liters of water per day.
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Did it work for me? Actually, yeah it has so far! I've lost close to forty pounds but now it's an on again off again thing now. I find too many goodies and like to indulge on occasion.

Proteins, Water and Walking are the main ingredients to this diet. The reasons you can lose weight on this one are pretty simple. Proteins take longer to digest, while digesting proteins the body burns more calories, the food you are able to eat seem to make you fill full for long periods of time.

There are dangers to this diet, including liver and kidney problems so you really have to pay attention to your liquids and check with your doctor to make sure this is a safe diet for you.

I'm not sure if it was cutting out sugar and using a sugar substitute or white, starchy foods but before this diet I had acid reflux and heartburn. Seems all this has disappeared and I can sleep at night without worrying about being awoke from those symptoms.

Maybe it's just me but on occasion I wander off into a sugar crave and want chocolate or a doughnut. The first two days of the diet I felt a little tired and was lazy. The third day I got a burst of energy that I haven't felt in a long time. Once I start giving into the chocolate or doughnut cravings and cheat on this diet, I can tell it was no good for me, I just feel blah! A nap is all I want after I do that, so since I know what it does to me, I don't do it often.

The first week I lost 12 pounds and was more than excited! I lost 6 more the following week and after that (without walking every day) lost one and a half to two pounds a day. I'm still losing but it seems the longer I do this, the harder it is to resist small temptations. I mean, if someone offers me homemade chocolate chip cookies & I can smell them being baked, it's hard to resist. If someone else cooks dinner besides me, it's hard for me to just eat what I'm supposed to on this diet without feeling that I've offend the chef. This does make me more apt to cook dinner, it's hard for me to hurt my own feelings or offend myself!

Sticking to the diet is the hard part but if you love meat, non fat dairy products and drink the amount of liquid required each day, it's not so bad. As long as a drink has less than five calories per serving (8oz.) you don't have to drink water! Coffee, diet soda, tea all work out to help in the liquid requirements.

I think it's well worth looking into if you need to lose a lot of weight but don't forget, just like any other diet, you need to know the ins and outs of the diet and you need to check with your doctor to make sure he/she thinks it's a good match for you!