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Planning Healthy Dinners

Does this sound like you? You do great all day with your new healthy eating habits. Then you get home, tired from a long day at work and just grab a bag of chips or order a pizza. The idea of running to the store to grab some fish or chicken and then cooking a healthy meal just sounds like too much work.

How can you get around that – and make it easy to prepare a healthy dinner at the end of the day? Plan your dinners ahead of time. If you have everything you need to cook in your fridge and pantry, and a recipe handy, fixing a healthy dinner will take less time than picking up a pizza and it will be much healthier (and cheaper) as well.

Take a little time each week to plan your dinners for the following week. Keep the recipes you need handy and make your grocery list. You can get most of the groceries at once and will have everything ready to cook when you get home.

Lunch That Will Keep You Going Throughout The Rest Of Your Day

Do you feel like you need a nap sometime in the afternoon, or do you get home so starved that you head straight over to the junk food cabinet for some snacking before you get dinner ready? Both of these situations could be caused by the lunch you do or don’t eat.

So, what should your healthy lunch look like? You don’t want to eat anything too heavy or it will make you sleepy. If you eat something with a lot of meat, fat and lots of carbs, your body will be busy digesting, and you’ll feel like taking a nap. The extreme of this happens on Thanksgiving, but even regular restaurant food can cause this afternoon sleepiness. Also keep in mind that most restaurant meals are actually up to 3 servings of food – making it much too easy to overeat.

At the same time, you don’t want to skip lunch. You need some food in the middle of the day to keep up your energy and keep you going the rest of the day. This also keeps you from being completely starved when late afternoon rolls around.

So what should you eat for lunch? A light meal that includes some fresh produce and lean protein. One of our favorite lunch meals is a salad. You can order a small order of a grilled chicken salad at your favorite lunch restaurant. (Tip – order a low calorie dressing on the side). Or you can make your own salad and bring it to work with you. If you do not work outside of the home, keep your refrigerator stocked with fresh salad ingredients, so you can quickly pull together an easy meal.

Here’s a small report we created with some delicious and very healthy salad recipes. As with the healthy breakfast smoothie ebook you are welcome to print it and pass it along to family and friends.
http://www.menuplanningcentral.com/healthy-salad-recipes.pdf

A Healthy Breakfast Is A Great Start Of The Day

Eating a healthy breakfast gets you off to a great nutritional start to your day. Studies have shown that women who eat breakfast consume an average of 100 calories less than those who skip this first meal. Over time, this one little change can make quite a difference. Not only will you start losing weight, you will have more energy throughout the day and feel better by giving your body the nutrients it needs after 8 plus hours without any food.

Of course with our hectic lives, it isn’t always easy to find time to sit down to a breakfast meal, let alone cook it in the first place. Don’t let that discourage you though. If you are in a rush, grab a bowl of whole-wheat cereal topped with some fresh fruit and a little low-fat milk. Or prepare some boiled eggs ahead of time. In the morning, just slice one of them and put it on a bagel for a quick and easy bagel breakfast sandwich.

Our personal favorite is breakfast smoothies. Its quick and easy to put them together, the kids love them and if you pour them into a travel mug you have breakfast to go. Give it a try – here’s a free mini-ebook full of all kinds of breakfast smoothie recipes that are good for you.
http://www.menuplanningcentral.com/breakfast-smoothies.pdf

Print then recipes and keep them next to your blender on the kitchen counter. Try some of the recipes that sound yummy to you and before you know it, drinking your breakfast every morning will become a healthy habit for you and everyone in your family.

Develop Healthy Habits

As mentioned above, a healthy lifestyle is all about making small changes and turning them into habits. Pick one or two small changes that you can stick with and incorporate them into your daily life. It may be a little hard at first to remember to do things differently (for example, to remember to eat breakfast every morning), but after about 30 days, the change should become a healthy habit.


Why Eating Healthy Is Important

By now, you may be asking yourself, why you should even bother making those changes and forming those healthy habits. Losing weight is of course a great reason, but it is by no means the only one to eat healthy.

When you eat foods that are actually good for you your body gets all the nutrition it needs to function properly. As a result, you will get sick less often and feel better overall. You will have more energy, because you avoid those sugar rushes (and the crash in blood sugar that follows), if you skip on that doughnut for breakfast or the candy bar for snack.

Healthy food is just plain good for you and we’ll show you that it can taste delicious too. In the end you will find it much more satisfying than any fast food, fatty microwave meal or snack foods that can be found in a vending machine…and your body will thank you for it.

Start With Small Changes

How many times have you decided to lose weight and then drastically changed what you ate and drank? Maybe you even started to work out an hour or two a day. How long did it last? After a few days or weeks you start to get burned out and get tired of this completely different lifestyle. That’s exactly why so many of us fail in our weight loss efforts. The key is to make small, gradual changes instead. Don’t turn your entire life around. Instead, start going for a walk after work or on your lunch break three times a week. Start drinking an extra glass of water a day, or distract yourself when you want to eat out of boredom. Small changes like t his will add up in the long run. As you get used to some of these changes, add something else to make your lifestyle healthier. Next you may want to start packing a healthy lunch, or preparing some veggies or a salad as a side dish for dinner.

Don’t completely cut out every food you love, instead allow yourself that piece of chocolate, or indulge in a few bites of cake. You can get away with just about anything in moderation. Eat a little bit of your favorite foods after filling up on some healthier fare, and then walk away.
Before you know it all these small changes you are making will become habits.