A Simple Diet for Simple Goals

So I wanted to write a follow up post for those of my readers who aren’t interested in following such an involved diet. The following diet is a good general outline of how to and what to eat in a more simple diet. This should be geared toward people who don’t have ambitious body transformation goals. This

Alright so I’m going to give you choices of what to eat. You will need to eat 4 maybe 5 meals a day if you can. Five is better than four of course but whatever your schedule will allow you should do, because the point of the diet is to be able to do something you can live with. Don’t make it so hard that you mess it up, get discouraged, and quit, just like you may have heard before, K.I.S.S. keep it simple stupid!

Meal 1 Breakfast
This is the most important meal of the day! You absolutely HAVE to eat breakfast! This is the meal that will get you metabolism revved up for the day and will allow you to burn fat. This should also be your biggest meal of the day, and it will be ok if you have something sugary with breakfast but don’t go overboard with it.
Breakfast Items:
Fruit – bananas, oranges, apples, blueberries, strawberries, etc.
Oatmeal – it would be best to get old fashioned oats and sweeten with honey or agave nectar, but if you don’t like that just get those little packets that are flavored
Whole Grain toast – you can put whatever you want on it I would steer towards jelly/jam instead of fats like peanut butter or butter if you want to use fats use just a little
Eggs – you can eat some egg whites, but if you don’t like them you can have scrambled eggs with a ratio of one whole egg for every egg white
Cereal – you can always eat cereal just be sure to find one not sugary like Kashi cereals, and be sure to use skim milk

Meal 2 Snack
Make sure you get a snack; this will keep your metabolism going!
Fruit – fruit is a good snack because you can usually take it with you
Yogurt – yogurt makes a good snack just be careful of all the sugar I think you can find a low-carb yogurt
Veggies – veggies are a good snack because you get fiber, and they fill you up just be aware that they have little caloric value meaning they don’t have a lot of calories
Dried fruit – dried fruit is good but pricey and don’t go overboard with dried fruit because there is usually a good amount of carbs in a little fruit

Meal 3 Lunch
Time to start putting in a little more protein into your daily diet, I usually eat some meat, some salad, and a yam or something for lunch.
Meat – Chicken, tuna, fish, lean steak these choices are better than lunch meat, but you can have lunch meat on a sandwich if you want
Carbs – yellow potatoes, yams, whole grain bread, whole grain pasta
Fruits
Veggies

Meal 4 Snack
For your last snack I would try to incorporate more fats into you snack and less simple carbs. You can have some of the things you would have in your first snack just be easy on the carbs and try to get your calories from protein or fat.
Nuts – walnuts, almonds etc. peanut butter maybe have some ants on a log!

Meal 5 Dinner
If you get hungry after dinner eat a small healthy snack but do not eat within three hours of going to bed. You need to really cut the carbs at night and if you get hungry eat something high in fat maybe some peanut butter or hummus. Also one trick I have heard of doing is drink a big glass of water then brush your teeth, you won’t want to eat after brushing your teeth.

Meats – chicken, fish, lean beef (lean steak or even lean ground beef)
Carbs – brown rice, multigrain pasta, etc
Veggies
Nuts

Just some little tips when dieting: Its all about portion control, basically just eat a little bit just enough not to be hungry. You should be able to fit your meal easily on a small plate. Until you know how much to eat, just eat a little, take a break, drink a large glass of water, wait ten minutes and if your not hungry, quit eating! You’re going to be eating four or five meals so all of them will be small. If you drink, I would limit or cut out alcohol out of your diet as well. Don’t even think about eating anything out of the freezer section, that crap is all processed and not good for you and full of calories. If you think you have done well for the week you should have a cheat day, but I find my diet is more effective if I try to do well for two weeks then take a cheat day. Try to make better food choices, it’s the little things that you do that make a big difference. Once you diet for a week or two you will probably notice that you keep eating the same things over and over again, you should find new things to eat because your body will get used to eating the same things over and over.