Looking for a good weight loss diet!

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  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    malibu927 wrote: »
    jenniblue6 wrote: »
    It is not that easy for everyone. A good start is to change one meal.
    A great lunch or dinner would be a Brown-Rice Salad with Spinach and Tomatoes and of course, water or green tea to drink. This meal is also a great choice for a detox.
    Enjoy!

    ((2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
    2 teaspoons red-wine vinegar
    2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
    1 garlic clove, minced
    Coarse salt and ground pepper
    2 cups cooked brown rice
    1 medium cucumber, peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded, and sliced
    2 cups baby spinach
    1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved))

    What does it detox?

    Also curious.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    jenniblue6 wrote: »
    It is not that easy for everyone. A good start is to change one meal.
    A great lunch or dinner would be a Brown-Rice Salad with Spinach and Tomatoes and of course, water or green tea to drink. This meal is also a great choice for a detox.
    Enjoy!

    ((2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
    2 teaspoons red-wine vinegar
    2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
    1 garlic clove, minced
    Coarse salt and ground pepper
    2 cups cooked brown rice
    1 medium cucumber, peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded, and sliced
    2 cups baby spinach
    1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved))

    Changing one meal will not help if the rest of your day puts your over your calorie goal unfortunately

    I could eat that, as a side dish, it sounds kind of nice. I'm interested in what you believe it would detox though?
  • NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner
    NobodyPutsAmyInTheCorner Posts: 1,018 Member
    jenniblue6 wrote: »
    It is not that easy for everyone. A good start is to change one meal.
    A great lunch or dinner would be a Brown-Rice Salad with Spinach and Tomatoes and of course, water or green tea to drink. This meal is also a great choice for a detox.
    Enjoy!

    ((2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
    2 teaspoons red-wine vinegar
    2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
    1 garlic clove, minced
    Coarse salt and ground pepper
    2 cups cooked brown rice
    1 medium cucumber, peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded, and sliced
    2 cups baby spinach
    1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved))

    Does this detox your soul? :lol:
  • ketorach
    ketorach Posts: 430 Member
    jenniblue6 wrote: »
    It is not that easy for everyone. A good start is to change one meal.
    A great lunch or dinner would be a Brown-Rice Salad with Spinach and Tomatoes and of course, water or green tea to drink. This meal is also a great choice for a detox.
    Enjoy!

    ((2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
    2 teaspoons red-wine vinegar
    2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
    1 garlic clove, minced
    Coarse salt and ground pepper
    2 cups cooked brown rice
    1 medium cucumber, peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded, and sliced
    2 cups baby spinach
    1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved))
    That's a *kitten*-ton of rice for one meal.


  • KirstenAF
    KirstenAF Posts: 33 Member
    edited June 2015
    Thank you everyone!
  • hollyrayburn
    hollyrayburn Posts: 905 Member
    I think the best "plan" would be to eat foods that you enjoy, which you weigh to ensure that you are eating the number of calories that you think you are, and be sure to log everything that you eat, and that it is less than your TDEE. I don't buy into "plans" such as low/no carb, eat this not that, no fast food, you can never have ice cream again, etc. You're not going to eat that way the rest of your life, so don't force yourself to now! Since you think following a "plan", I'm sure you'll enjoy doing this too!

    Find stuff you enjoy, try to meet macro goals. It sounds like you are on the right track. (and this "detox" stuff people are posting about; it's crap. You have these lovely things called livers and kidneys that do that for you, providing you're not an alcoholic and have damaged them, lol.) Good luck!
  • colors_fade
    colors_fade Posts: 464 Member
    hollyrayburn wrote: »
    I think the best "plan" would be to eat foods that you enjoy, which you weigh to ensure that you are eating the number of calories that you think you are, and be sure to log everything that you eat, and that it is less than your TDEE. I don't buy into "plans" such as low/no carb, eat this not that, no fast food, you can never have ice cream again, etc. You're not going to eat that way the rest of your life, so don't force yourself to now! Since you think following a "plan", I'm sure you'll enjoy doing this too!

    Find stuff you enjoy, try to meet macro goals. It sounds like you are on the right track. (and this "detox" stuff people are posting about; it's crap. You have these lovely things called livers and kidneys that do that for you, providing you're not an alcoholic and have damaged them, lol.) Good luck!

    This is great advice.

    See, here's the thing about losing weight: it's a slow process. There are no magic pills or magic diets. At best, at the VERY BEST, if you can somehow manage the hunger associated with it, a large calorie deficit is going to net you 3 lbs. per week weight loss. A more reasonable expectation is about 1 lb. per week.

    So do the math. How much weight do you want to lose? Suppose you want to lose 30 lbs. Well, at a lb. per week, that's 30 weeks. So you need to eat in a manner that you can sustain for a long time!

    Drastic, restrictive diets do not work long-term. This is why people fail. No one can do a "diet" for 30 weeks.

    What do you think you can reasonably do for 30 weeks? Eat foods you like, in moderation, count calories, and get a bit of exercise to help create a wider deficit? Yep, probably.

    Most of the people who are successful at weight loss understand this is a long-haul journey. It's going to take time, it's going to be slow, and you're going to have to be patient and consistent. You go look at the success stories on this site: they usually took a long time, because weight loss that lasts takes time.

    Eat foods you can enjoy in portions that fit your calorie requirements. You'll be able to sustain such a diet, and you'll win in the end.
  • rjmudlax13
    rjmudlax13 Posts: 900 Member
    ketorach wrote: »
    jenniblue6 wrote: »
    It is not that easy for everyone. A good start is to change one meal.
    A great lunch or dinner would be a Brown-Rice Salad with Spinach and Tomatoes and of course, water or green tea to drink. This meal is also a great choice for a detox.
    Enjoy!

    ((2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
    2 teaspoons red-wine vinegar
    2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
    1 garlic clove, minced
    Coarse salt and ground pepper
    2 cups cooked brown rice
    1 medium cucumber, peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded, and sliced
    2 cups baby spinach
    1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved))
    That's a *kitten*-ton of rice for one meal.


    LOL....you add a couple of bananas and you won't be "detoxing" for a few days!
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