If you want to lose weight or get fit, your diet is going to form the major part of any results  you achieve, perhaps 75 or 80%. It is preferable to spread your eating out over between  five and seven meals a day and to ensure that your food intake is the best you can achieve,  you could plan your meals for a week ahead.

An eating routine is a huge topic and I will aim to put up some detailed meal plans, articles  on good foods and healthy recipes. But if I were to sum up the basics of what you should or  should not be eating into a short paragraph, I would say, avoid all refined sugars and as  much processed food as possible. As to what you should be eating, aim for protein rich  foods, such as chicken, turkey, tuna, fibrous carbohydrates, such as green veg and salad  and limited good fats, which includes olive oil, almonds and flax seed.

Breakfast is an important meal of the day, especially when trying to lose weight. When you  eat, you raise your metabolic rate (how fast you use energy) and by eating breakfast after  your overnight fast, you increase your energy usage first thing in the morning. This energy  increase from eating can be used to your further advantage by eating smaller meals more  often. You can eat small meals between five and seven times daily to help keep your  metabolic rate up. It’s important, however, to remember to cut down on the amount at each  of these meals to ensure your overall calorie intake remains the same (or is reduced, if you  are trying to lose weight). On 6 meals a day, you could plan for 3 meals with 350 calories  each (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and 3 meals with 250 calories each for mid morning,  mid afternoon and supper. This would allow you 1800 calories a day and you can reduce or  increase your intake at each meal for different calorie intake levels.

I plan ahead for my meals for the working week, because then I have something ready to  eat when I need it and I am not tempted to buy expensive fast-food from a nearby shop! The  prepared food includes protein for my meals and snacks.

My chosen day is a Sunday and I will talk you through what I prepare for my working week.  You must remember that portion size is important and also getting ample protein into your  diet. Therefore, I prepare the meat portion of my meals. A fair portion size should fit into the  palm of your hand. I generally work on the idea of one chicken fillet, one cup of lean mince  or a palmful of steak per adult person, per meal. The reason I do not prepare my  carbohydrates is because for lunches I will make up a salad in the morning and for dinners,  I will cook frozen veg, which only takes 5 minutes.

Possible meal choices for the week might typically include two chicken, two fish and one  steak dinner, plus lunches. The fish is frozen, so can easily be cooked on the day of use. I  might cook 8 chicken fillets, 2 steaks and 6 hard boiled eggs. Half the chicken (4 fillets)  goes in the freezer for one dinner and one lunch at the end of the week. The cooked steak  and the other half of the cooked chicken fillets (4), plus the hard boiled eggs go in the  fridge, assuming cooked meat is safe in the fridge for two or possibly three days. The  chicken is used both for dinner and for lunch. The hard boiled eggs can be used for snacks  or for breakfast.

In addition to the chosen cooking day, I use a Wednesday evening to prepare any snacks  for Thursdays and Fridays, such as hard-boiled eggs.

On a closing note, always remember, failing to plan is planning to fail. For more information  on fitness and diet look at the Wordpress  Blog – My Fitness Tale

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