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Your Daily Meal Plan for Your Weight Loss Journey

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Since each of us is different, our bodies all have their own nutrition needs.  Do you know what your body needs for a healthy diet?

Most of us don’t know.  The truth is, the amount of food our body physically needs is much less than what most Americans eat per day.  After we know, and accept, the amount of food we actually need, it is much easier to accept that we overeat for other reasons.

I found a great calculator by the US government that gives you your daily calorie needs for your age, sex, height, and weight.  After entering this data, it gives you a .pdf sheet with not only the calories for the day, but also the types of food for a day and minimum exercise.

For example, here is daily intake plan for a 60 year old female, 5 foot, and 220 pounds (which will produce a weight loss at an acceptable rate):

Daily Plan for 60 years, 5', 220 lbs Woman - 1600 cal/day

Daily Plan for 60 years, 5', 220 lbs Woman - 1600 cal/day

Then, to help you to use this plan, they give you a sheet to help plan and track your food intake during each day:

MyPyramid Worksheet

Very nice tool to help you choose what you plan for your daily nutrition needs.  If you already know your daily calorie intake goal, you can go to this table of links to Calories Results and Food Tracking Worksheets for 1000-3200 calories per day (in increments of 200 calories).

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SSSHHHH! It’s a SECRET (How to lose weight)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
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SSSHHHH! It’s a SECRET.  I gave you this secret a year ago, but it is time to reveal the secret again.

Or at least you would think it was a secret based on all the ads for weight loss miracle supplements.  Actually, it’s not a secret.  Remember our mothers, grandmothers, and even great-grandmothers telling us:

  • Get plenty of rest
  • Exercise
  • Drink plenty of water
  • Eat your vegetables
  • Watch your sugars, starches, and fats.

Is it that simple? Well, really it is. The simple fact is that when our insulin levels go higher, our body stores fat.  And to lose weight, you have to burn more calories than you bring in.   To gain weight you have to take in more calories than you burn.  So what do we need to do?

  • Keep our insulin level level - follow a low glucatrol diet.
  • Limit the sugars and starches and calories. Don’t take anything completely out of your diet like fats or sugars.
  • Find out what your healthy weight should be, the calories per day you should have, and then plan your meals.
  • Eat your vegetables raw or steamed as much as possible,
  • Limit your fruits to 3 servings a day
  • Do your exercises for at least 20 minutes a day to get your metabolism kick-started.

I found a neat site that you can track your weight, exercise and diet on no matter what diet you are on. It is Dietwatch Diet Planner & Diet Tracker.

 SSSHHHH! It’s a SECRET (How to lose weight)

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