{VIDEO} Salmon and Cabbage: more examples of my very few go-to meals during my 150-pound weight loss journey. I did not and do not eat a wide variety of foods. Chicken, salmon, egg whites, Mrs. Dash and non-starchy veggies is my grocery list in a nut shell. Tips via Dr. @mikeroussell Research shows that people who successfully slim down and then stay at their new weight tend to eat comparable things each day. I have also found this to be true with my own clients. It’s not that you can’t lose weight on a varied diet; it just requires more planning and preparing, and in my experience, the greater the “dietary effort” people need to exert, the lower their chance of long-term success. 1. Try something new every week. Cooking one meal and then eating it several times throughout the week is a strategy that I use with my diet. The trick is to switch up one meal each week. Let’s say Sunday is when you make a large dish that you then have for lunch Monday through Friday. The workweek is when people are the most time-crunched and need a consistent nutrition rhythm, so keep to your cooking schedule, but prepare something different every Sunday. By just changing your lunch, you are introducing 25 percent more variety into your diet. 2. Tweak your standard meals. Upgrading your go-to dishes is another simple way to diversify without breaking your rhythm. All you need to do is swap out an ingredient or two for similar but nutritionally different ones. For example if you usually have a green salad with chicken for lunch, use different greens (spinach, lettuce, arugula, etc) and protein sources (chicken, salmon, tuna, etc). This will give you nutritional variety without changing the meal so much that it causes you to deviate from your routine.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:32:07 +0000