Meal Prep Portions To Lose Weight
Millions of people have been using a portion plate to get healthier or lose weight. This portion control plate healthy meal plan has meal ideas to help you use your plate to reach your health goals, without feeling deprived.
Eating a diet that can not only make you feel your best, but also something that can become a lifestyle that you enjoy, is the ultimate goal. I can say with certainty that THIS is that diet! Eating meals from all the food groups and controlling your portions is the smartest and easiest way to be healthy.
The difference between following a portion control plate diet and fad diets is that you can follow this new lifestyle the rest of your life, and not feel deprived.
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When you attempt any diet that forces you to eliminate entire food groups, it is hardly sustainable in the real world. But when you adopt a lifestyle that allows for balancing all the food groups, THIS is something you can live with. This is a meal plan that won’t leave you feeling deprived.
If you have one of my nutrition plates, or you can visually divide a standard plate, This 7 day healthy meal plan is for you!
Often, I’ll combine the fruit and veggie, but then I double up on the serving. For example, breakfast, I might have two servings of fruit and no veggie. But lunch and dinner, I’ll have two servings of veggies and no fruit.
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If you haven’t picked up your portion control plates yet. Check out my Amazon store here, or see my description of the plates here. That way you can put this portion control plate meal plan to use!
The blank meal planner! This printable lets you fill in the blanks for each food group, so you can plan for 1 week worth of portion controlled meals.
And finally, even more basic, is this food list, that can double as a grocery list so you’ll have something to fill your plate from each food group!
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Amy Roskelley, Bsc. MBA, ACE, AFPA, IAP, IPEis a health & fitness professional with a Bachelors of Science in Community Health from BYU. Masters of Business (University of Utah) Certified Personal Trainer (ACE), RRCA Running coach, Certified Personal Chef (IAP), and Certified as a Nutrition & Wellness Consultant (AFPA), Certified Mind, Body, Eating Coach. (IPE)
She is the creator of many low calorie recipes author of weight loss books. Mother of 3, runner, and NPC Fitness competitor.When you’re armed with a list of foods and color-coded Portion-Control Containers to measure your portions, eating healthy one day at a time is no sweat.
You’ll notice that each of these meal plans combines a handful of quick-cooking ingredients, like a big batch of oatmeal, ground turkey sautéed in a pan, or a variety of vegetables roasted at the same time.
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The rest of the meals rely on combinations of raw ingredients, like salads, fruits and nuts, or prepared items like hummus and peanut butter.
You can easily swap in different fruits or vegetables, ground beef or tempeh instead of turkey, and starches like sweet potatoes or quinoa in place of rice or corn.
Even at our lowest calorie level, 21 Day Fixers get plenty of food: 3 green containers, 2 purple containers, 4 red containers, 2 yellow containers, 1 blue container, 1 orange container, and 2 tsp. per day.
Easy Chicken And Vegetable Meal Prep
Add two hard-boiled eggs or ¾ cup of low-fat plain Greek yogurt with breakfast, and drink a Shakeology smoothie blended with water and ½ cup blueberries with the second snack!
Lunch: Mason jar salad with 2 Tbsp. vinegar-based dressing, 1 cup cherry tomatoes, ½ cup bell peppers, ¼ cup onion, ¾ cup cooked chicken breast (about 4 oz.), ¾ cup baby spinach (2 Green, 1 Red, 1 Orange)
Dinner: ¾ cup seasoned ground turkey with 1 cup sautéed zucchini, and 1 cup strawberries (1 Green, 1 Purple, 1 Red, 1 tsp.)
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Look at all of the bright colors this hearty meal prep has to tempt your taste buds! A sweet breakfast of Pumpkin Protein Pancakes is the only recipe in the bunch.
For the lunches, cook lean ground turkey in a pan coated with nonstick spray; you can cook the vegetables or save time by leaving them raw.
People eating at this calorie level get 4 Green containers, 3 Purple containers, 4 Red containers, 3 Yellow containers, 1 Blue container, 1 Orange container, and 4 tsp. per day.
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Snack 1: Shakeology blended with water, ice, ¾ large banana, and 2 tsp. almond butter (1 ½ Purple, 1 Red, 2 tsp.)
Lunch: ¾ cup seasoned ground turkey with ¾ cup red bell peppers, ¾ cup orange bell peppers, and ½ cup corn (1 ½ Green, 1 Red, 1 Yellow, 2 tsp. )
Dinner: 4 oz. grilled chicken breast served with ½ cup spinach, ½ cup cherry tomatoes, ½ cup broccoli, and 2 Tbsp. vinaigrette dressing (1½ Green, 1 Red, 1 orange.)
Best Weight Loss Meal Prep Lunches (low Calorie)
No recipes are required for this colorful meal prep, just a few basic cooking skills, like boiling water for oatmeal, roasting vegetables, and cooking a steak (psst… if all else fails, swap in burger patties).
People eating at this calorie level get 5 Green containers, 3 Purple containers, 5 Red containers, 4 Yellow containers, 1 Blue container, 1 Orange container, and 5 tsp. per day.
Breakfast: 1 cup oatmeal (made from ½ cup rolled oats) with 3 tsp. peanut butter and 1 cup fresh berries (1 Purple, 2 Yellow, 3 tsp.)
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Snack 1: Avocado Toast with Tomatoes made with 1 slice whole grain toast, with ¼ avocado, ½ cup cherry tomatoes (½ Green, 1 Yellow, 1 Blue)
Lunch: Mason jar salad with 2 Tbsp. vinaigrette dressing, ½ cup cherry tomatoes, ½ cup purple cabbage, ½ cup bell peppers, 6 oz. seasoned ground turkey, ¼ cup white onions, ¾ cup spinach (2½ Green, 1½ Red, 1 Orange)
Dinner: 6 oz. steak with ½ cup new potatoes sautéed in 1 tsp. olive oil, ¾ cup steamed green beans, ¼ cup mushrooms sautéed in 1 tsp. olive oil (1 Green, 1½ Red, 1 Yellow, 2 tsp.)
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To make this higher calorie meal prep just as quickly as a menu with less food, simply toss some brown rice in a rice cooker, hard boil some eggs, and sauté mushrooms and then ground turkey, you can even use the same pan.
Our menu for this calorie level includes 6 Green containers, 4 Purple containers, 6 Red containers, 4 Yellow containers, 1 Blue container, 1 Orange container, and 6 tsp.
Snack 1: 1 scoop or packet Shakeology blended with water, ice, 1 large banana, ½ cup strawberries, and 2 tsp. almond butter (1 Red, 2½ Purple, 2 tsp.)
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Lunch: Mason jar salad with 2 Tbsp. vinaigrette dressing, 6 oz. seasoned ground turkey cooked in 1 tsp. oil, ½ cup black beans, ½ cup corn, ¾ cup bell peppers, ¼ cup white onion, 1 cup spinach, ½ chopped jalapeño (2 Green, 1½ Red, 2 Yellow, 1 Orange, 1 tsp.)
Dinner: 6 oz. bison (or lean ground beef) burger with 1 slice (1 oz.) cheese on a bed of ¾ cup spinach, side of ¼ cup green beans and 1 cup mushrooms sauteéd in a pan coated with nonstick spray, with ½ cup brown rice (2 Green, 1½ Red, 1 Yellow, 1 Blue)Are you struggling to lose weight or looking for an easier way to eat healthy without feeling hungry all the time? Portion control is a great method to lose weight and monitor your healthy eating. This post explains what portion control is and offers tons of tips for how to successfully portion control yourself to healthy!
Portion control is one of the biggest nutrition hacks I’ve found for sticking to a healthy lifestyle, losing weight, and then maintaining my ideal weight. The idea is to understand what your body needs and just eat to that level. Oftentimes, either because we feel we have to finish all that’s on our plate or restaurants have pre-determined giant portions, we over-eat, which leads to weight gain.
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Enter portion control, which helps us to identify what’s in our food and how much we need to consume to meet our goals. The hang-up for many people when trying lo lose weight, however, is they think they need to drastically reduce the amount of food they’re eating, which isn’t necessarily the case. My goal in this post is to share how to portion control without feeling hungry all the time, and still lose the weight (assuming that’s your goal). The bottom line is that portion control means no food is off limits — it’s just a matter of choice if and when you choose to eat anything.
Hopefully, the info I have shared below will help provide you some much needed support and control over this process. In a nutshell, here are the portion control topics we’re gonna cover in this post:
In basic terms, your body requires a certain amount of calories to function and survive each day. Those calories are determined by your age, current weight, and daily activity level and vary from person to person. Anaverage woman requires approximately2000calories per day to maintain her weight, and 1500 calories per day to lose one pound of weight per week. Anaverage man, on the other hand, requires approximately2500calories per day to maintain his weight, and 2000 to lose
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