Create Diet Menu Plans That Work

July 9, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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Let me ask you as question?  Do you enjoy going on a diet and creating a strict diet menu plan?

I don’t know about you, but I sure don’t!   The very word “diet” literally makes my mouth start to water as I think about all of the foods that I “can’t” have!

But the bottom line is that every year millions of people decide to do just that.  The first thing that most people vow to do is go on a strict diet in order to lose that weight and they create impossible diet menu plans to follow. 

These days, it’s hard not to feel like you need to lose weight because everywhere you turn, some news media outlet is spouting weight loss tips and tricks.  The problem with diets is that they don’t work.  Typically speaking, most diet menu plans quickly cut all junk food and sodas out.  All of the “bad” food is pulled out of the fridge, the freezer and the pantry and thrown away.  Then the exercising starts and most people pray for a quick and painless weight loss. 

The problem is that once you eliminate everything from your diet menu plan that you love and add foods that you don’t normally eat on a consistent basis, you begin to feel deprived.  Then the cravings start and it’s only a matter of time before you are doomed to falling off the diet wagon.  Then you start to eat all the “bad” foods again, the weight piles back on and you feel bad about yourself!  It is a vicious cycle.

Let’s face it, dieting is bad no matter how you look at it and we all just need to sop dieting.  You have to come up with a diet menu plan that you can live with and that doesn’t make too many changes all at once.  Any diet plan menu that severely restricts what you can and cannot eat will not work in the long run. Many times the foods you limit yourself to will not fill you up and you are hungry all the time too.  This is just a recipe for disaster.

The best way to lose weight is to come up with

 

 

 

You have to do what works for you and set yourself up for success.  Sitting down and designing a diet menu plan that is healthy BUT flexible is one of the keys to losing weight and keeping it off.  CLICK HERE to grab a healthy menu plan and free recipes as well as more information. 

Create Your Own Easy Meal Planner at Lutongbahay.com

April 29, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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Thinking about what to cook for each meal day after day becomes a chore after a while. Being able to easily create a meal planner with a lot of inputs in terms of recipes and information is, therefore, a real help. Lutongbahay.com provides this, making it a favorite online hangout of mine.

One of the problems I always have when deciding what to prepare for a meal is the fact that after a while, the family gets tired of having the same dishes over and over again. Although there will always be perennial favorites, having new recipes would definitely perk up their appetites.

What I like about Lutongbahay.com is that it has all the classic Filipino dishes while also having recipes for new variations on traditional recipes as well as totally new dishes from familiar Filipino ingredients. This makes Filipino homecooking really exciting. This isn’t surprising at all since Lutongbahay is the Filipino word for homecooking.

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