Step 2 – The “When to Eat” Meal Scheduler For the 14-Day Slim Down, throw all your old eating habits out the window. Don’t eat breakfast? It’s time to start. Only eating 3 meals per day? Time to start eating 5! Follow this meal scheduler, and watch your waistline shrink… Ok, so let’s figure out ahead of time WHEN you will eat, and approximately HOW MANY calories you should consume at each meal. To maximize your body’s natural metabolism, it’s important to eat every few hours. For example: Meal 1: Breakfast Meal 2: Midmorning snack Meal 3: Lunch Meal 4: Afternoon snack Meal 5: Dinner Now that you know your daily calorie allowance, you can create your meal schedule. If your daily allowance is 1,800 calories a day, your schedule could look like this: Meal 1: 400-calorie meal Meal 2: 300-calorie meal Meal 3: 400-calorie meal Meal 4: 300-calorie meal Meal 5: 400-calorie meal Heres another example with water included: Meal 1: 400-calorie meal (16 oz. water) Meal 2: 200-calorie meal (8 oz. water) Meal 3: 400-calorie meal (16 oz. water) Meal 4: 200-calorie meal (8 oz. water) Meal 5: 600-calorie meal (16 oz. water) You get to choose how to divide up your calories as long as youre eating 5 times per day and drinking 64 oz. of water! (You may actually need to be drinking MORE water!.. To calculate how much water you should be drinking, take your weight in pounds and divide it by 2. That number is the number of ounces you should be drinking.) READ THIS BEFORE MOVING ON – Do not skip meals! Do not skip meals! Do not skip meals! Drink ALL 64 ounces of water each day. Count calories in beverages too! If you don’t know how many calories are in something, either google it, or don’t eat it until you know.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:49:46 +0000
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