help!! has anyone lost weight eating healthy frozen tv dinne

My husband takes one to work every day for lunch! And he's lost 95 lbs in the past 2 years.

He uses everything from Lean Cuisine, to Smart Ones, and lately - Banquet. Banquet meals aren't "healthy" but many of them are comparable in calories to the healthy frozen meals. It's all in the calories! He also supplements the meals with fruit, sugar free jello or pudding...

I don't eat them all that often - once or twice a week at most, probably - but combining them with everything else I've done, I have lost weight. We usually keep Lean Cuisines or Smart Ones in the house. The Smart Ones cheese pizza is really good, and I *love* the Lean Cuisine cheese ravioli! For low-fat options when you're craving pasta or whatever, these are surprisingly tasty.

My friend lost 75 lbs (and has kept it off a few years now!) this way. She calls it her very own nutrisystem plan. Basically she ate a bowl of high fiber cereal with fruit and milk every a.m. then a healthy t.v. dinner for lunch with a big lettuce salad and low sugar dressing. Then she said on her busy nights she ate one for dinner too but also added in some fruit and milk (and still the salad). On the nights she was able to prepare dinner at home she did but kept it around 500-600 calories. I know she use to munch on home made apple chips all the darn time but I don't know what else she had as snacks, I just remember her carrying those apple chips around whenever I saw her I think she did a protein bar for an afternoon snack sometime. I've often thought about doing something like that myself just because I saw her success with it and how she's kept it off. I know she still does the t.v. dinner for lunch every day now.

I know a lot of people do lose weight eating lowfat/low cal frozen dinners, but I dont think it is a good long term strategy. In order to maintain a healthy weight for your whole life and avoid yo yo dieting, you must develop a love and respect for real, healthy food. Frozen meals almost always have very high sodium and unnatural ingredients. Also, frozen meals create a distance between you and your food. For me, I find I eat better, eat less and enjoy my food more if I do some sort of preparation - even if its just throwing a salad together.

That being said, fast, low-cal, low-fat dinners are a must! I suggest keeping bags of frozen veggies, frozen bags brown rice and frozen shelled edamame (for protein) in your freezer. That way you can just throw the veggies and edamame in a pan, microwave the rice and throw it all in a bowl with some low sugar/low sodium sauce. Almost as easy and much healthier (in my opinion) than frozen tv dinners.

I eat a Healthy Choice complete meal almost every day for lunch. I have lost 96 pounds since March and I am saving a ton of money not eating out for lunches any more. My breakfast and dinner are not frozen meals, that would be too many dinners for me to eat.

I have a Smart One or Lean Cuisine about 3-4 days a week at work for lunch and I have lost weight.

I followed Weight Watchers my first 3 months of weight loss and ate a frozen meal everyday for lunch and lost about 40 pounds. I usually stuck with the Smart Ones with the WW Points on them (for convienance only). As well as lean meat and veggies for dinner and a hour+ activity a day (elliptical, weights, walking, etc.) I'm thinking about going back to this plan now that I'm ready for my last 10 pounds! Good luck.