The quick and simple diet

10 Juillet 2014, 18:50pm

What’s it about?

This is a diet plan that will allow you to lose 4lbs in seven days, by keeping your calorie intake at a maximum of 1200 per day. It has all the information you need, from the food you have to buy to packing the perfect lunch in just a couple of minutes.

Whatever you want to do, this diet plan has all the bases covered.

Follow the rules

• Don’t try to rush things. Weight loss will only happen if you do it right. We are always in a hurry to get somewhere nowadays and this means that you have to eat, no matter what. By skipping a meal you will reduce your chances of reaching you goal. For example, you can have half of your lunch if you are short of time and you can complete it an hour later by eating yoghurt or a fruit.

• Make smart choices. For example, you can start eating brown rice and bread, because they release carbs slowly, which means that you will have energy for a longer period of time.

• Eat foods that relieve stress. If you have a very active and chaotic lifestyle, you can include garlic, celery, almonds and sunflower seeds into your everyday eating plan, because they will help you calm down.

• Include protein into every meal. This way you will reduce your chances of eating junk foods and it will also keep your blood sugar at a constant level.

• Fill your stomach. Instead of eating low fat crisps that won’t do the job, have bulky low calorie foods, like large salad or soup.

The diet plan

Breakfasts

These can be easily incorporated into your busy everyday life, because they only take two minutes to make. If you want to have the healthiest breakfast of them all, eat cereal with milk. Buy variety packs, because they will save you the trouble of having to guess portion sizes. This way all you have to do is take an individual box of cereal, pour 250 ml of semi-skimmed milk on it and add a small tin fruit.

Lunches

If you want to keep things interesting, have a different menu each day from the list below. They all contain around 300 or 400 calories and they can be easily prepared in 5 minutes.

• 300 ml fresh vegetables soup with 1 slice of wholemeal bread, with apple or banana as desert.

• Wholemeal sandwich with sliced tomato and lettuce. You can top it all off with a low-fat fruit yoghurt.

• Sliced banana and 12 grapes folded into 3 tablespoons of fromage frais and one dinner spoon of nibbed hazelnuts.

You can also take a bottle of flavored water and a finger of Twix with you.

• Two Ryvitas with Philadelphia soft cheese, a bunch of grapes and one small carton of fresh orange juice.

• A slice of bought quiche, with salad and a carton Hartley’s jelly with fresh fruit.

The ideal 3-step lunch

This is the ideal way to have your meal, when you are on the go, because it will help you stick to your diet, since it only has 350 calories.

• Make a sandwich out of 2 slices of wholemeal, granary or rye, with the crust cut off. You can fill it with 80g of cold meat or 2 eggs or 30g cheese or 80g of tuna.

• Have a Tupperware filled with a lot of vegetables and salad.

• Have a chocolate chip rice cake, or a low-fat yoghurt, a piece of fruit and a small packet of nuts or raisins.

Dinners

These meals contain between 400 and 500 calories and they can be prepared in 25 minutes max. You can have different one each day.

• Birds Eye Simply Fish with layered, microwaved vegetables.

• Jacket potato with 30g cheese or small tin tuna or hard-boiled egg or flaked salmon and serve with salad.

• Weight Watchers prawn curry with rice and salad.

• Baked beans, 30g cheese, tuna or egg on 2 slices of wholemeal toast.

• Individual frozen chili with meat or Moussaka with rice and salad.

Desserts

• A pot of low-fat Ambrosia rice pudding or custard.

• Ready made fresh fruit salad.