tasty, healthy meals to have while trying to lose weight? bored of soups!!?

Answer 1

here's some places to get great ideas and they have menu planning too. My personal favorite light dish is...I take one chicken breast and brown it in a skillet with olive oil (2 tsp.) season with little garlic and lime juice. Cut it into pieces and stuff about half of that into a whole-wheat pita. Add a little fat free sour cream, some lettuce and a little bit of 2% cheddar cheese. Save the rest of the chicken for a salad later.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Perhaps you could try following the British Heart Foundation's 'So you want to lose weight for good' guide to losing weight... It's great!! It comes with good tasty and healthy recipe ideas plus no calories to count, instead just a number of sensible healthy portion sizes each day for each different food type and away you go. If you're good you get to have your favourite treat once a week or so, too. Keep this up and combinewith a good brisk walk every day if you are able to fit one in and the should come off and stay off. I've done it, enjoyed it and what's more it really works...
Good luck!

Answer 4

Try Mediterranean Style food. Most recipes are both healthy and filling. But avoid the Pasta and Pizza!

I like Feta Cheese Salad with Garlic Cloves and Green Olives. It is nice made with Chinese Leaf Lettuce. If you can't be bothered making up the garlic oil marinade yourself, then buy the "Apertina Feta Snack" from Arla as it contains everything other than the Lettuce! Best of all for me is that its Vegetarian Friendly.

You could also try Baked Potato with Baked Beans and Low Calorie Coleslaw .

Cheese and Ham Salad with a nice slice of lightly buttered (with Vegetable Margarine) Crusty Loaf!

Fresh Boiled or Steamed White fish with a small nob of Butter, Boiled Potatoes and Garden Peas and / or Asparagus Tips.

Answer 5

Firstly, ensure that you are getting proper nutriments. Unless you are a vegetarian, you should eat meat 3 times per week - fish one day, red meat one day and white meat 1 day. The rest of your mains can be vegetables and/or lentils.

Fish and red meats should be grilled - don't cut all the fat off the meat - you need some fats. White meat can be stir-fried in sunflower oil.

I recommend you explore the net and look up Sikh (Gujerati) cooking. Much of this is vegetarian, but it is not boring because of the spicing and also because the Indians in general have great ways of using different combinations of vegetables to create changing textures. You won't need much cooking gear - a wok will be useful. The spices can be obtained on line - look up NATCO if you are in the UK.

Having dealt with your mains, remenber to have breakfast - meusli or the like. Use soups for supper, and bulk out by eating dry brown bread, preferably from a local baker and unsliced. If it seems to dry, dip it in your soup - go on, no-one is looking.

Fruit is excellent for snacks.

Finally, allow yourself a treat per week - I'd recommend a full English breakfast on Sunday morning.

Answer 6

If you're from the UK and you have the budget, the best diet plan I ever managed was by buying M&S food. It costs less than you think and if you buy the nutritionally balanced ready meals for dinner and eat the count on us salads for lunch, you get a great variety and you will lose weight! I lost 2 stone doing this.

However, if this is beyond your budget, just cut out carbs at dinner time. A light salad with lamb chops, chicken breast, salmon, tuna etc is more than enough to help with weighloss, and gives you all the vitamins you might need. Buy low fat salad dressing and get creative with what you put in it - radishes, spring onions, beansprouts, cucumber, crispy bacon, baked parma ham, low fat feta cheese, sundried tomatoes... you could have a different salad every night.

I'd still recommend eating some carbs at lunchtime, but make sure they're healthy - you're body does need them. Just be sensible.

Answer 7

Turkey is a very lean meat and very tasty. I buy a lot of ground turkey and patty it out and store it in the freezer for turkey burgers. I actually like them better than beef hamburgers. Served with a side of steamed veggies and a salad, it's a pretty good meal, I have it at least 3 times a week. The other days I try to stick with chicken, it's also a leaner meat.

Answer 8

If you like spicy food can I recommend you mak your own curry, but use olive oil instead of vegetable oil to cook chicken - and use lots of spices like garam masala, cayenne pepper, chilli powder, and fresh chillis, marinate the chicken first wiv spices then cook chicken and add more spices, and some chopped tomotos along with anyother stuff you can think of like onions etc. A healthy meal needs everything so dont be afraid to use a little fat, also chilli is known to help weight loss so get a good sweat going. Another new recipe I like is Heinz tomato soup with cayenne pepper chilli powder and crushed chillis stirred in... again literally burns the fat off:)

Answer 9

Bored with soups? Are you making them yourself? If not, why not try. You can throw all kinds of things into a pot to make the soup more interesting. And, when you make them yourself, you can control the fat and salt content. (I used to make my own stocks but there are a lot of really good organic low-fat, low-salt versions that I now use store bought.)

You just don't have to drink broth when you are on a diet. Fill the pot with veggies and beans. Add a little chicken and it should be a more satisfying adventure.

I've found it's easy for people to become bored with soups when they view them as "diet" foods, whereas I view them as a regular part of my eating routine.

Friends and family know that if a restaurant has soup on the menu the first thing I ask is if they made it themselves. If the answer is yes, I'm the first to order it. I've had smoky chicken and bean in La Jolla, conch chowder in St. John, chunky pumpkin in St. Croix and goat stew in Aruba. (The waiters watched in anticipation as I ate the latter. After I tasted it, I looked up and said "Maaaaaaaaaaa." They all broke up laughing.

Don't be afraid of stews and chilis, you can easily control the calories when you make them yourself.

My other favorite non-soup meals when I'm dieting include fruited salads including apples, mandarin oranges, pears, and peaches with baby spinach, grape tomatoes and feta cheese. Sometimes I'll make tuna, salmon or chicken salad using just a small amount of mayonnaise.

Good luck with your diet. Oh, and don't forget to use fresh herbs like basil and chives to spice things up.

Answer 10

Your meals should be tasty and healthy even if you're not trying to lose weight. If you're eating canned or packaged soups (not home made), as a rule, that's not healthy. Use your imagination. Think veggies, fresh garlic, whole grain pastas (in small portions), grilled or broiled lean meats (chicken, pork, beef), fish of many kinds, including fresh shrimp, king crab, etc., salads with lots of nice greens and hot with hot grilled chicken strips, or a nice piece of broiled salmon. There are soooo many things. There are many different ways of putting these healthy foods together.

(Tasty and healthy DO NOT cancel each other out by ANY means.)

Answer 11

I am on a diet and have opted for the GI diet by Rosemary Conley it is fantastic lots of really tasty low fat food and not once have I been hungry or bored.
I have lost half a stone and 12 inches in three weeks.

Her magazine is out for May called diet and fitness and it has some great recipies in it also her web site for more information. I joined her postal diet it cost £39.99 but well worth it as I got the quick start diet for two weeks which I have just finished, diet book coookery book and one for vegetarien. A DVD for working out, cd for motivation a journal to record your loss and food in there with full recipies easy and quick to do. A toning band with instructions a free voucher to join one of her clubs.Tape mesure and also a peadomitor.
Honest it was well worth it and has given me the insentive I need.