Meal #1 (Breakfast): Cold or hot oat cereal with psyllium husks, whey protein powder, citrus, berries, coffee and chocolate soy milk. Calories: 500
Meal #2 (Mid-morning snack): nuts, fruit, or yogurt, shot of coffee (before yoga). Calories: 200
Meal #3 (Lunch): Pita flat bread or half a bagel or no starch at all, soy meat, stilton or other cheese, olives, hummus, fruit, two tablespoons coffee ice cream to "close the deal" or provide a punctuation mark for the meal. Calories: 600
Meal #4 (Late Afternoon Snack) nonfat plain yogurt with Medjool dates or soy meat and cheese. Calories: 300
Meal #5 (Dinner) egg beaters with low-fat cheese and half a bagel with light margarine; salmon, brown rice, spinach or brown rice with veggie chili or some such meal, including eggs and half a bagel to feed the soul. Two tablespoons of ice cream. Calories: 600
Meal #6 (grazing before bedtime) oranges, yogurt, apples. Calories: 200
Meal #7 (bedtime cereal to coat the belly): cold cereal with psyllium husks, berries. Calories: 300
Total calories: 2,700
Some of us must eat 7 times a day. Do we eat emotionally? Maybe. Bottomline: Many of us are constantly hungry and this diet minimizes the damage. You will have to burn about 1,000 calories through exercise every day. There you have it. No miracles. Just a strategy to minimize the damage of overeating.

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