what is a sample breakfast, lunch and dinner of someone serious about lowering their cholesterol?

Answer 1

Breakfast: Oatmeal
Lunch: Oatmeal
Dinner: Oatmeal

OK - I suppose it depends on just how serious you are.

Seriously, there's a lot of good information on the subject at the following site:

Answer 2

Breakfast:
1 banana
1 orange, sliced into 4
Cooked oatmeal (in a bowl), with 2 tablespoons of honey ontop
1 cup of fruit juice

Always use olive oil, extra virgin, and NEVER use canola or other oils. Canola was originally TRACTOR OIL, and olive oil has benefits, such as it actually lowers cholesterol to eat it in foods, and sometimes taking a tablespoon a day is recommended because of its antioxidant properties).

Lunch:

Salad, with olive oil + vinegar, 2 peppercorns and some italian seasoning.

Dinner:

Boneless, Skinless chicken breast
Brocolli spear
Seasonings

Choose your favorite chicken seasonings and season your chicken breast. Place a spear of brocolli in the middle and roll the chicken around it, like a cigar would be rolled. Then pin it with a toothpick and bake it 25 minutes in the oven, wrapped in aluminum foil

On top of stove, meantime, prepare the rest of the brocolli head in water, boiled until semi-soft.

Remove from water and add 1 teaspoon of olive oil and serve on a plate with your chicken and brocolli, and a nice dinner salad.

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Good luck.

Answer 3

Breakfast Choices:

1) Oatmeal with Splenda and/or fresh fruit, skim milk
2) Low-Sugar, high fiber cereal with skim milk
3) Two slices whole wheat or other high fiber bread/toast with sugar free jam (they make them with Splenda now!), fresh fruit
4) Nonfat plain yogurt with Splenda and fresh fruit
5) One SMALL (like Lenders frozen... not the kind from the bakery!) bagel (or half of a bakery one) with lowfat cream cheese.

Lunch Options:

1) Diet microwavable meal (like Lean Cuisine or Healthy Choice)
2) Large vegetable salad with lean protein (chicken, tuna, lowfat ham), skip the cheese, use lowfat salad dressing
3) Sandwich with lean meat or tuna, mustard or fat-free mayo, no cheese, use lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, sprouts, roasted peppers, cucumber slices etc to bulk it up
4) Grilled or broiled chicken (no skin) or fish (any whitefish, salmon is high in Omega 3 so it actually helps lower cholesterol) and lots of steamed veggies or a big salad.
5) Lowfat soups (like Healthy Choice) with a side salad/lowfat dressing

Dinner choices:

One protein, one carb, lots of veggies! Hints -

Pull skin off chicken, fat off meat, use Butter Buds instead of butter or margarine on vegetables and rice, use brown rice and whole wheat pasta when possible instead of the white stuff, use whole grain breads or high fiber breads (they make white ones now!) Bulk up on veggies and serve them raw, steamed, roasted, etc... limit oils, cheeses and sauces.

To drink - tea, coffee, use Splenda to sweeten, have soft drinks with Splenda, drink fat-free milk. Limit sugars as well as fats because they raise your triglycerides.

Cheeses for when you're dying for some? Shredded parmesan, skim milk mozzerella, romano, etc. You can also get lowfat Laughing Cow that's a soft cheese like a brie, have it on a few whole wheat crackers. Also lowfat cheese flavored popcorn.

There are rice cakes now in chocolate, cheddar, ranch, caramel, bbq, etc... so try those when you're craving chips and cheese puffs etc.

If you're starving in the afternoon, have a piece of fresh fruit or a wedge of Laughing Cow, 4 whole wheat crackers and a little can of V-8 juice.... carrots and celery are good to munch on too.

Also, use a NatureMade supplement called CholestOff. It's plant sterols and you just take two tablets twice a day about 15 to 30 minutes before you eat. It stops your body from absorbing so much cholesterol from your food.

NatureMade also makes garlic supplements (odor-free) so take one of those twice a day with meals too. These are natural ways to lower cholesterol and they've been proven in clinical setting.

Fiber clears cholesterol from your system... so think high fiber!

The main thing to remember is that you don't want to deprive yourself to the point where you hate life and cheat like a manic, devouring an entire Sara Lee section while it's still frozen :)

If you crave cheesecake, get/make lowfat cheesecake... or cheesecake flavored yogurt... or get one slice and have two bites a day for the next four days. If you crave chocolate, eat two Hershey kisses... or use cocoa powder to flavor your yogurt or have a serving of chocolate pudding made with skim milk. If you just can't stand not having something... have just a little or find a lowfat substitute that will fill the craving for you. (I LOVE Key Lime Pie and I found a Key Lime flavored yogurt that gives me the taste, the creaminess but it's lowfat and I have no guilt!)

Good luck to you. If you're really struggling, ask for a referral to a dietician or nutritionist who can help you to create a custom-made diet just for you :)

Answer 4

breakfast
oatmeal, fresh fruit
tea or coffee

lunch
vetable soup and tuna sandwich
with wheat bread

dinner
skinless chicken breast
brown rice
salad, and veggie

snacks
fresh fruit
popcorn

Answer 5

oat meal, oat meal, oatmeal