I knew that I was not technically overweight according to the facts and figures that the sporting professionals had given me but I still did not like the extra weight that I was carrying around. My underarms were a drooping mess of fat and my belly was nearly as far out as my boobs were. So I decided that going to the gym alone was not sufficient enough and I wanted to find another means of losing the weight that I had struggled with for so many years. The answer was of course to modify my diet and start eating in a manner that would help me reduce a few dress sizes. This I thought was a great idea because I had always been the kind of girl that would buy clothes to small for me in an attempt to lose weight. All this accomplished was having a wardrobe full of clothes that did not fit me.

My diet meal plan was going to be simple. First I started by writing down what I was going to eat each day and then going to the market to buy as much fresh foods as possible. I liked to think that buying fresh was healthier for me even if it was not a key principle to weight loss. The next thing was to get up early about 7am each day and eat a good breakfast full of carbohydrates so that this would fuel my daily activities as well as kick off my metabolism early. After that I had fresh fruit for morning tea, salads for lunch and just a touch up of carbs for afternoon tea too. Dinner was always meat and veggies, as long as the veggies were not high in carbohydrates. Then for supper I would have a small protein shake or bar to keep me going till the next morning.

There are several things you should know about starting a new or your first diet meal plan one of which is that not all diets work for everyone because every person’s body works in a different way and reacts differently to different foods. My partner cannot eat some of the foods I love because they give her bad gas. These foods include pineapples, onions and capsicums otherwise known as peppers. Different foods have different reaction to bodies depending on allergies, metabolism rates and many other reasons.

Start by writing the foods you like to eat on a chart and then decide what sort of health low fat and low sugar meals you can make with these foods. Often it might be a good idea and much simpler to list the foods you cannot eat and then work around these. Use different cook books to enhance your meal selection, the modern day cook books often have a calorie count per serving or a list of how much fat, protein and carbohydrates there are in each meal as well.

Once you have selected a variety of meals to cook or make you should also try to include fresh vegetables and fruits which will provide you with essential vitamins and minerals that your body requires each day. Breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and dessert (or supper) should all be taken into account. Try not to think that having five or six meals each day as eating too much because having more meals with smaller portions is a great way to keep your metabolism high and help you to trim excess weight.