Meal Planning Chart

Once you have figured your maintenance calories, you are ready to fill out your meal planning chart. Think of your schedule, and how you like to eat your meals. It is great to eat a healthy breakfast, and meals of similar size. This is hard for Americans as they are used to a huge dinner.

Plan your chart to fit your lifestyle. Aim for 1 to 2 healthy snacks per day also:

• Print, and Circle your choices on the chart below, that you would like to try, and make adjustments to fit your calorie level. These choices should equal your maintenance calories, or weight loss calories. I love this exercise, because it will show you a figure that you should shoot for. If you plan 500 calories for lunch, you will see how difficult it is to eat out. Calories will mean something to you!


• Do you want 1 or 2 snacks, or 1 snack and 1 treat. Your Choice!


• Choose your meal plan below, and try it for a few days and make adjustments as you feel the need:

Breakfast	Healthy Snack	Lunch	Healthy Snack	Dinner	Snack, Treat, or Dessert
300	100	400	100	500	100
400	200	500	200	600	200
500	300	600	300	700	300
600	n/a	700	n/a	800	n/a
n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	900	n/a
n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,000	n/a

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Here is the example of the 160 lb person that wanted to lose weight by eating 1,740 calories. Their meal planning chart might be:

Breakfast	Healthy Snack	Lunch	Healthy Snack	Dinner	Snack, Treat, or Dessert
300	100	400	100	500	100
400	200	500	200	600	150
500	300	600	300	700	200
600	n/a	700	n/a	800	300
n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	900	n/a
n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,000	n/a

Breakfast 400, Lunch 500, Snack 100, Dinner 600, and Treat 150 which would be 1,750 calories. There are many different ways we could have chosen to arrange the meal plan!

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The next Healthy Diet Habit, would be to plan several breakfast choices, lunch choices, dinner choices, snack choices, brown bag lunch choices, fast food lunch choices, restaurant dinner choices, or treat choices that fit into your plan. If you love variety, plan lots of choices.

You might be surprised to learn that most of your favorite foods fit into your plan, even if you are trying to lose weight.

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