4 Tips on Healthy Meal Plans for Weight Loss

4 Tips on Healthy Meal Plans for Weight Loss

Introduction

They say that weight loss does not start in the gym, it starts in the kitchen. The basic rule of weight loss is to burn more than your calorie intake - if you plan well enough for your diet, you may not need to work so hard at the gym.

Doing that means sacrificing bad eating habits, and usually that's the difficult part and whats more challenging than that is to maintain it for a set period of time. As corporate people, we are often distracted by different factors like work stress, social obligations, tiredness - all these are usually what distract us from staying discipline to a strict diet - resorting to fast food because you just don't have enough time to prepare healthy food, you couldn't decline when your colleagues asked you to go to the bar, and you're so tired from work, you decided to just eat whatever unhealthy food you could find in your fridge.

If you are serious about losing weight, you should really consider changing habits and learn to force yourself to adhere to the diet plan. Fortunately planning healthy meals for your weight loss goals are not too difficult, but at the end of day, as discussed is a matter of how much you stay in line with your plan.

The 4 tips on healthy meal plans for weight loss

1. Plan ahead of time. In the space of weight loss and in everything else, planning ahead of time is always a good thing to do. In this case, prepare your meals for each day and store them in the freezer, and when you're ready to eat them, heat them up and you're good to go.


2. Completely remove your favourite unhealthy food. I know this gives you the chills when you read it, but trust me, that is one of the best things I have done and continue to do to maintain the physique for the past 10 years. I am not saying to remove everything, but consider this. If you have 7 favourite unhealthy food which you eat regularly, completely stop eat 2 or 3 of from your list, and limit your intake of the remaining 4 unhealthy food. In my case, I stopped consuming deep fried food, so that means no McDonalds and all the other fast food. But it wasn't easy so I cut myself some slack, every once in awhile I'll have a bowl of fries, but that's about it.


3. Snack healthily. Once you have set your mind to achieve your goals, it becomes less difficult to break all those bad habits. If you have snacking habit, try taking in healthy snacks, such as nuts instead of chips, fruits instead of cakes. Soon enough you'll learn to love these more than their unhealthy alternatives


4. Eat regularly, don't skip or have long periods without eating. Most dieticians would recommend that you have smaller meals but more frequently than the other way round. If you only have 2 or 3 meals a day, you tend to binge on each meal because when you leave yourself hungry for too long you tend to think you have to eat more. However if you eat smaller portions more frequently it would be easier for you to contain your hunger.

Conclusion

Take a step back and see how these points could work for you. Losing weight involves having self discipline and that is the key to your success. The steps shared above does not deprive you from food at all, but a different way of looking at how you consume your food. If you are already taking some of the steps above, do leave a comment and share how that has worked for you, or if you have other suggestions that the readers could benefit from.