1. This plan is a perfect balance of macronutrients making
you feel as though you are not on a diet.
2. We will commence the 1500 calorie diet with a
replacement of all the junk food in your refrigerator. This
will be replaced with the necessary ingredients to make
you the healthiest you have ever been. But rather than
just ditching the contents of your fridge, why not invite
some friends round and explain that you are having a wild
bachelor night before embarking on a change of life. Serve
up the stuff you need to get rid of: white bread
sandwiches of canned spam with fatty mayo, jam, cakes,
chips, cookies and anything else that contains sugar, white
flour, potatoes, pasta or animal fat.
3. Serve up all your sodas, even your diet sodas, full cream
milk and cordials. If you still have any junk food left at the
end of the evening, give away doggie bags.
4. Now comes the exciting part. You have to eat so you must
go shopping, but you have now have a new shopping list;
one to provide you with the necessary ingredients to start
your 1500 calorie diet.
5. If you are grossly overweight and our 1500 calorie diet is a
tremendous reduction in calories for you, go and see your
doctor and get a check up and some advice on how the
new diet will affect you physically. He will not be able to
give you nutritional advice unless he is a dietician as well
(highly unlikely), but he will tell you how your internal
organs will stand up to a severe change of diet.
6. If you are what we might politely call 'normal cuddly',
then the change will do you the world of good. Check out
the 1500 calorie diet plan, make out your list, and then
you can do your shopping. We are aiming at providing
macronutrients by way of 40% protein, 30% carbohydrates
and 30% essential fats.
24. Make a salad with shredded lettuce, sliced tomatoes,
sliced cucumber, chopped celery, halved grapes, chopped
apple, and olives. Dress with extra virgin olive oil and
balsamic vinegar, sprinkle with dried basil. Top with a
hard-boiled egg or lean meat of your choice.
28. Wash 2 carrots, 1 small yam, 1 parsnip sliced, peel 1 onion
and wipe them over with extra virgin olive oil. Season
them and place them in a baking dish with 1 chicken leg.
Bake in a hot oven for around 1 hour on a medium heat.
30. These ingredients are not carved in stone and can be
replaced and juggled to suit you. After a while you will
find that you are increasing your knowledge about what to
eat and what not to eat. The internet is a great research
tool and it is cheap to get an education about any subject;
dieting is no exception.
31. All you have to remember is to get your protein from lean
meat like chicken, turkey and fish and your best fats are
none-animal fats - extra virgin olive oil, peanut oil and
avocado. Eat fresh fruit and vegetables and whole wheat
products as your carbohydrates.
32. Make this 1500 calorie diet menu plan the starting point
for a change of lifestyle and you will reap the rewards with
a slimmer healthier body.