The Lean Cuisine Diet
I must say that I wasn’t really always a fan of promoting prepackaged meals, with what I felt was inferior nutrition, tiny microscopic portions, and high sodium. However, when you add some healthy sides to a Lean Cuisine, or other prepackaged frozen premade meal that is low in calories and fat, you have a perfectly potioned meal that is ideal if you are trying to lose weight.
My fiance and I have lost a lot of weight together eating this way when we’re dieting to actively lose weight, and you can too, but it does take discipline, as you are a bit hungry when you’re done, especially after dinner, when it’s most important that you don’t pig out, but this is also many times the time of day we choose to eat the most, and it’s hard to break that habit.
If you can break that habit, and eat a healthy breakfast of your choice, and just eat Lean Cuisines, Healthy Choice frozen entrees, or Smart Ones or some other comparable weight watching frozen meal, and add foods to it so that the meals total around 500 calories, you’d be surprised how fulfilling they can be. It’s especially nice because you can still eat foods that feel “naughty” like lasagna and eggrolls, just be aware that you need to pick the most filling foods for their nutrition and calorie content to be successful with this method of dieting so you stick to it without starving yourself.
When we follow this easy, somewhat inexpensive diet, we usually will steam some broccoli or asparagus to go with the meals for lunch and dinner. If you try to eat them without supplementing with yoru own steamed veggies, you won’t be full, I can almost guarantee that. My fiance also uses the trick of filling up more with a diet soda. I’m not crazy about the health aspect of diet soda, but the bubbles do fill you up more, so you could even try a seltzer water if you’re concerned with the artificial sweeteners.
Like I mentioned earlier, the key to success with this kind of diet is to supplement with plenty of fibrous veggies, to fill you up and add the much needed nutrition and vitamins and fiber that I feel most frozen meals are lacking. I always load up at breakfast and eat about a 450-500 calorie breakfast to prepare me for a day of eating low calorie meals, and that seems to set the stage well for eating a low-fuel diet all day.
This kind of diet is highly successful as long as you follow the rules and also don’t yield to the temptation of overeating at dinner. Fill up on water at dinner to help maintain satiety until you go to bed. You’ll feel pounds lighter in the morning, I can assure you! It’s easy, it’s quick, and minimum hassle, especially if you work two jobs like me!
