What is a healthy lunch? Tips for eating a healthy lunch. One of the things that I teach my students in my "learn to be lean" class is that meals don't have to look a certain way. We are going to have this...
One of the things that I teach my students in my "learn to be lean" class is that meals don't have to look a certain way. We are going to have this unconscious idea in your head that breakfast should be either eggs or cereal, right?
Lunch should be either a sandwich or a salad if you are not going to eat fats. We think about what do we need such as protein, low fat, the right kind of carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates and a certain amount of calories to carry me through for three or four hours, but not so many calories that you gain weight or go to sleep. So breakfast can be the turkey sandwich and lunch can be the egg white scramble in pita bread. Dinner can be the cereals. Who said dinner has to be a hot meal? Sometimes it's really nice they look for the hot meal, but sometimes they come in late and you are tired and you want something sweet. Have healthy cereal and you can go to your bed fine. Lunch could be the turkey sandwich. So, we can have the sandwich, leave of the fat the cheese and mayonnaise, add some veggies, and put some mustard on it. Also, make it on whole grain bread, a whole wheat pita or low carbohydrates with a salad, dressing on the side. You can always dip your fork into the dressing. If you put the dressing on your salad, you are going to use a tablespoon or two and a tablespoon of dressing could have 14 grams of fat. If you go to a restaurant where they mix it up, you're having 50 gm of fat at least. César salad has 80 grams of fat. It's ridiculous. No wonder we can't lose weight and it has no protein in it. Tissue paper lettuce with fat and sausage is fat and Parmesan cheese which is fat.
You may think I don't understand I am having a salad for lunch right. We can modify that salad when we order it. Can I have the salad dressing on the side, no cheese, just little nuts, put extra broccoli and cauliflower to bump it up and make it more substantial and you're going to need some protein. Salad is not going to carry you very far. They need some carbohydrates to go with it.
Buying vegetables and have it right in the fridge at eye level, not down below in the veggie drawer. Wash it, chop it up and stick it right there in a bowl or a Tupperware so that when you open the fridge, you just look in find that. You come home and you are preparing dinner and you really want to snack on something. That typically might have cheese, crackers, chips or something, just pull out the veggies and stuff yourself, go crazy. It will have 25 calories. Because we are going to eat some fat, I don't want to come out of anti-fat. I am not. We need some fat but let's be aware of what we are eating and choose.
