A growing number of books on the subjects about calorie counting and

particularly weight loss or diet recipes have exploded in the market in the past decades. Never before has there been such a widespread of popular interest on diet plans, 1200 calorie diet menu plan being advised as the lowest a person should go. Well, this frenzy is primarily due to the growing number of our population who have also been growing a large in the past years.

It is not easy to create a caloric deficit using this diet plan because people can’t stand the sudden decrease of carbohydrate intake. Some withdraw from the diet after just a week and sometimes as early as 4 days. It is not easy. So if you are thinking of going on this kind of diet, here is a sample 1200 calorie menu so you could test it first if you will be able to stand it for a long period of time.

Breakfast

Small glass grapefruit juice

1/2 cup oatmeal

1 glass skim milk

1 whole wheat toast

1 teaspoon jam

coffee or tea

Lunch

Vegetable chow mien with 2oz chicken or diced lean beef

1/4 cup rice

1/4 cupFresh pinapple chunks

1 glass buttermilk

Dinner

2 oz beef

½ cup Italian noodles

Cauliflower

Lettuce with low fat dressing

2 halves pears

Tea or coffee

Skim milk

To make a low-calorie Chow mein, dice the lean beef or chicken, 1/4 cup peas, 1/4 cup bean sprouts, 1/2 cup celery, 1 small minced onion. If you can do away with a 1/4 cup soy sauce the better. Steam the peas, bean sprouts, celery. You can also boil the vegetables with 1/4 cup of water if a steamer is unavailable but steaming the veggies will preserve more of the nutrients that you would need instead of boiling them. Mix the vegetables and meat and serve on steamed rice. This alone is already a total of 410 calories of your 1200 caloried diet plan.

I know you are probably eager to start on using 1200 calories diet to lose weight. Remember, before you undergo this type of diet, you must never neglect proper nutrition needed by your body, otherwise, you will defeat your purpose of losing weight which is to become more healthy.

You must learn when to "re-fee" yourself so your body will not think that it is not going through a "famine" stage and store fat for the "rainy days". If you don't do this, you will only store more fat after a week or two and wonder why you can't lose weight anymore no matter how hard you try.

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