Low calorie diets, including 1200 calorie diet menus, work better than exercise only diet programs for one simple reason. If you’re overweight, beyond what your body is designed to handle, you are putting excess stress on your body when you exercise. As a result, you get exhausted very easily when trying to start an exercise program. You’re more likely to give up but if you start to lose weight through your eating plan first, you set the stage for an exercise program that will accelerate your weight loss program.

How do I know this? Because it’s happened to me! I’ve been about 40 pounds overweight for the last 10 years. But at least I’ve been able to maintain that weight when eating a bad diet by exercising the extra calories away.

But for the last 6 months, I haven’t been able to do that because I just can’t exercise more than 15 minutes a day without getting totally exhausted. I was really starting to get worried because this had never happened to me before.

I decided to go on Jenny Craig because the weight was starting to really creep up. I lost about 5 pounds and decided to add a little exercise to the diet plan. Lo and behold , I was able to walk 30 minutes without being totally wiped out!

I made a goal to walk 5 days a week for 30 minutes a day…a routine that used to be easy as pie until recently. When I lost 8 pounds, all of a sudden my stamina was back and I was able to exercise the way I used to.

Wow! I learned something new about my body and how it loses weight!

Of course, I have to credit Jenny Craig with helping me get the weight off to begin with. And here’s how they do it…low calorie diets and a 1200 calorie diet menu. So here goes….

Low Calorie Diet Menu

Breakfast (no more than 300 calories):

1 cup of milk

1 cup of fruit

Any type of breaksfast food that has no more than 30% fat. Good choices include low fat muffin, 1/2 cup high fiber cereal, low calorie breakfast burrito, whole wheat french toast

Snack ( no more than 50 calories):

1 cup low fat, low sugar yogurt or

low fat protein snack bar or

1 piece of fruit

Lunch (no more than 300 calories):

Garden Salad with dressing or broth-based soup no more than 50 calories

2 ounces of protein

1 starch and

1 cup of vegetables

Snack (no more than 50 calories):

1 piece of fruit

sugar free fat free pudding

Dinner (no more than 400 calories):

4 ounces of protein (chicken, fish or beef)

1 cup vegetable

1 starch

Snack (no more than 100 calories):

1 fruit or

1 cup of low fat yogurt or

100 calorie snack food

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