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101 ways to lose weight

The month of January is already over for a while and so it's time for additional motivation to get that good intention to lose weight.

If you think less food is the solution, I have to disappoint you. Of course, less food helps, but if you eat too little, you lose weight instead of fat muscle mass and slow down your metabolism.

Your body will then resist weight loss, which means you should eat less and have the same effect.

The consequence is that you are hardly eating, losing your muscles and getting a lot of appetites because you get a lot of hunger, and you will eat too much.

So it's important to have a difference in what you eat and burn without having your body in the saving mode and a regime that you can sustain.

That's why I divided the tips into a top 10. Tips for nutrition, sport and movement, lifestyle and motivation.

Quick lose weight: Top 10 tips

1. Sleep 7 to 9 hours a night.

When you sleep, you can not eat anything. What you also notice is that when you go to bed in bed, you do not eat snack late. When you sleep enough, you have more control over your hunger feeling. In addition, if you sleep too much you often feel hungry, lose muscle mass and even arrive!

2. Keep a nutrition diary

If you keep up with what you eat and how many calories are in your diet for at least three days, this can bring about a revelation.

"Oh, so it's because of that ..... I do not waste anything." Suddenly you notice that in those three handles nuts a lot of calories a day so you can eat only 1 hand of nuts.

Then some extra carrots and cucumbers. Knowing your current eating habits is also easier to change.

If you are having trouble keeping your food diary all the time on paper, special apps are also available that make it easier. Diet plans for weight loss

3. Calculate your daily calorie target

Now that you know how much you eat, you can set a goal. For example, if you've found that you are eating 2500 calories daily, you can choose to eat 2300 calories. Do not try to starve yourself, but try to eat fewer calories.

4. Follow a nutrition schedule

Now that you know how many calories you can eat, it's wise to have a plan how to eat the best without having a hungry feeling. Therefore, make a plan about what you are eating. For example, you can create a weekly schedule for your breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.

You can use the tips of this article for this plan, and there are many diet plans available for inspiration on the Internet.

5. Replace processed feed for unprocessed feed

Overweight often causes us to eat too much-processed foods. By eating more freshly. By replacing such processed crucible with a bag of carrots, you prevent many toxins from entering your body.

Such a barrel of oat flakes probably uses a sugary thing to keep it all together. That's just something you want to avoid when you're losing weight.

6. Eat proteins at each meal

Sometimes it is difficult to reduce carbohydrates,but if something helps to lose weight then it is eating more proteins. Proteins provide a full feeling without getting a lot of calories. 1 gram of fat has, for example, 9 calories while 1 gram of protein has only 4 calories.

7. Drink 8-12 glasses of water a day

Water drinking is often associated with weight loss. It keeps you hydrated and keeps you feeling full longer. If you also drink a glass of water before you eat, you are also fuller and eat less.

8. Make a plan to sport

Without planning, it's easier to slacken. You know that you have to do sport, but because you did not have a fixed schedule, you might not have enough time for it.

Therefore, create a "workout plan" that combines different types of training and obliges you to move at fixed times so that you can take account of other activities in your planning.

No more apologies. Get the inspiration for your plan from this article and also on Pinterest there are many workouts and plans for a workout.

9. Do a full-body workout three times a week

By training your entire body, you accelerate your metabolism and prevent muscle loss. If you do exercises that combine big groups of muscles, you'll come across a lot, like squats, push ups, lunges and stretching.

10. Be patient

You're reading this article of course because you want to lose weight quickly and lose weight.Unfortunately, this does not happen from one to the other. A girlfriend of mine has only lost 10 kilos of nutrition in 9 months, but after that 10 kilo she still had overweight. It was a good step forward, but you will not get a model within 1 week.

Usually you can lose up to 1.5 percent body fat per week. If you lose more this is probably moisture or muscle mass.

Fast-lose: motivation

11. Write 2 goals

Write two goals that you want to accomplish and make this SMART . This means specifically, measurable, achievable, result-oriented and time-bound. Create a goal about what you want, such as 10 kilometers running or 100 times prints and a physical goal, such as a certain body fat percentage.

Keep your goals visible wherever you see them every day. For example, in the kitchen on the fridge or next to the mirror in the bathroom. An example is "Within 3 months can run five kilometers.".

12. Write down why the goal is important to you

Explain exactly why your goal is so important to you. By saying this and writing it, you remember your motivation for the purpose better and makes it easier to do the things you want to do. Go further than "I want to look good in that dress." Why do you want to look good? Why is that important? Find your ultimate motivation deep inside.

13. Create a weekly goal

You really have a great purpose to lose weight , but especially if it's quite a few pounds it's hard to keep motivated. Therefore, create a close-up goal every week and get that week. These can be weight lifting goals, like this week, I can press 20 times a day or a realistic weight goal, like this week I really get that 70 kilo if you've been hanging around 70.3 for a while.

14. Track your body statistics

In addition to keeping your weight, you can also keep outline of your waist, hips and chest and of course your fat percentage . If you do not see any improvement in one statistic, you'll find one in another. That also keeps you well motivated, because do not forget: Muscles are heavier than fat. So you can become heavier but slimmer.

Do not fool yourself and do this only once a week on the same day at the same time. Measure your body fat once a month.

15. Create progress photos

You've seen it happen to social media, but you can also keep them private for your own motivation.Create a photo of yourself without a t-shirt every week or month so you can see the progress. Because you see yourself every day, you may not see the subtle changes that are visible on the pictures.

16. Focus on your plan, not your weight

Research shows that if you focus your weight on your weight, the chance is that you will get back to you after reaching the weight. Instead, it's better to focus on healthy eating and moving enough. It is also important not to depend on your self-esteem or how you look.

Performance and character are much more important. As become stronger, perseverance, become a better self.

17. Sign up for a 5-mile race

In group sports it works extremely motivating. When you sign up for a race, this also works motivating to do well and you can train there. A training program for this distance often takes 8 to 12 weeks.

18. Sign up for a mud race (or something like that)

If only running sounds boring you can also join a race with obstacles such as a mud race or "real men / women race" or the like. In addition, you also train your strength and sometimes even your flexibility with obstacles.

19. Find a fitness partner

Working together can be very motivating. Find a friend, girlfriend, neighbor / wife or colleague with whom you can co-operate and motivate each other. Your social environment has a big impact on you, if you find friends with whom you can exercise, you automatically get more sports.

20. Tell a friend about your goals

Tell people about your goals in your social environment. This can happen, for example, face to face or social media and the mail and keep them posted on how it all goes.

21. Create a workout playlist

Music helps very well during sports. The rhythm can give you a grip on running or other exercises.Create a playlist that supports you to move smoothly.

22. Watch a motivation video before you go to sport

A motivational video like Just Do It by Shia le Bouef can help you to achieve your goals and complete your workout and maybe even to do some extra. Also videos of athletes you love while they are doing can greatly help you motivate.

Search the internet for motivation to exercise for a video and you will find everything.

23. Look for a motivational photo

A beautiful body, a strong body, someone who is surfing or climbing an outdoor mountain bike can greatly motivate to achieve your goals. Hang them up, like your sportswear, to motivate yourself.

24. Read motivational quotes

Make sure you have motivational quote's where you see them, like on your desktop or next to your desk.At the bathroom mirror, in your wardrobe wherever you are. On TheBerry you can find nice motivational quotes . It's a site for women, but I also like him very much.

25. Visualize your success

Visualizing your goals is a powerful technique to motivate yourself. Imagine yourself during a workout, how it feels and how it feels if you have success. How does it look? Visualizations help you to be more conscious of your body and thereby to eat and move more consciously.

26. The jeans that ever fit

Anyone who wants to lose weight has a piece of clothing that ever fit, in your mature life (!), And you would like to walk in again. Hang that piece of clothing somewhere where you can see him. You can even make a SMART goal and see if you're wearing these pants every month.

27. Put money on your goals

Make money by achieving your health goals? It's possible with PactApp , but it costs you money if you do not achieve your goals. If you get your goals, you get money from members who do not achieve their goals. Making money and getting healthy has never been so much fun.

28. Calculate how much money you can save

Money that you do not spend on unhealthy food can be spent on fun, like clothes a day out or maybe even a fun vacation. Calculate what you save if you do not go out, stop drinking and no longer eat a bag of chips during the movie.

29. Omarm Kaizen

Kaizen is a Japanese concept that strives to make every day better than the previous day. To make yourself better than you were yesterday. It's not about being perfect, it's about making you perfect. For example, you can run faster than yesterday, getting stronger than yesterday and so on.

This concept can also be applied to your diet and in other parts of your life.

Fast-lose: Sports and movement tips

30. Create a sports schedule

Make an appointment with you to practice on certain days of the week. For example, Tuesday afternoon / evening, thursday afternoon / evening and saturday morning. You can make an alarm on your phone when you play at home to make sure you do not accidentally do anything else. You interested any Books- So, You go my Book Fairs project.

31. Make use of a power circuit

A circulation training focused on your muscles means that you do a certain amount of exercise , such as pressing, for 30 seconds and then taking a break. The pause of a second or 15 can be followed again with 30 second squats.

Another fun circuit is by using all the power training devices in the gym for 30 seconds and then exercising within 10 seconds on the following device.

32. Avoid sitting during your workout

Sometimes you just have to take a moment. Try to do this while standing. Walk back and forth, take a sip of water, but do not sit down. You probably already have enough time during the rest of your day, so get the most out of your workout by standing up with an intermediate print or what you were doing.

33. Swing with the kettlebell

Making a swing with the kettlebell ensures that you need to keep your balance and power. As a result, you train all parts of your body. In addition, the kettlebell is even better for your wrists than a normal weight.

34. Finish your workout with 50 kettlebell waving

For example, you can swing the kettlebell between your legs and back again. By adding just that bit, you build more muscles, accelerate your metabolism and even burn just the few calories.

35. Go to the morning sports

By first sports in the morning you have had that part of the day. In addition, it helps to give yourself energy and give you the rest of the day a nice boost. Set your alarm 30 to 60 minutes earlier than normal and start at home or go to the gym early in the morning.

36. Go on a survival course

You can do something else on a survival trail in the woods. Because you are sometimes dependent on only vigilant witty things, you are in power, balance and flexibility.

37. Walk at least 7500 steps per day

By taking a minimum of steps you will be forced to move extra. On your smartphone, you can often get an app that counts the steps you put. In addition, you can also attach a pedometer to your pants to not miss the whole day.

By moving more, also quiet like walking, you burn more and fall faster.

38. Move to your work

Is it possible for you to be on your job by walking or cycling within three minutes? Try walking or cycling if you are still driving by car. This will allow you to move one hour extra per day!

39. Take the stairs

Can you choose between the stairs and the elevator? Always take a staircase. Also if you have six floors up. Stairs improve your fitness and move more muscles than when you stand still in the elevator. In addition, staircases work to get a narrower drug, become lighter, burn fat and help fight cardiovascular disease.

40. Invest in a personal trainer

A personal trainer ensures that you do the exercises properly. This can prevent injuries. In addition, a personal trainer helps you with your motivation and can appeal to you if something is not going to be good and then investigate what's wrong now. That's sure to be on track.

Fast-lose: Free time

41. Find your passion that moves

Find a hobby that you like to help you move more. Learn, for example, dancing dances, surfing, skating (or roller skating) or mountain climbing. If you like it.

42. Stretch every day

Flexibility is important to prevent injuries during sports. In addition, stretching is sometimes a workout in itself.

43. Yoga 1 times a week

A great way to combine strength training and stretching is by doing yoga. In addition, yoga is perfect for reducing stress and losing weight. It relaxes you while you move and therefore do not even have to feel yoga like a workout while it's great for you.

You can follow yoga classes on YouTube, but it's even better to follow a yoga class. If you only do yoga for 10 to 20 minutes, you can already enjoy a reduced stress level and more rest, making you better decisions about diet, exercise and sleep.

44. Attend group fitness

If you are competitive, a fitness class with a group is super. Because of course you can print the most often, it's fastest at the intermediate presses and so on. For example, you can follow group fitnesses for crossfit or a course lesson that you can follow outside. Check out the possibilities in your region.

45. Try to find an outdoor sport

There's nothing going on over fresh air when you're sports. Outside sports, besides the fresh air, you also have the advantage of reducing stress and boosting your self-confidence. The Netherlands is a waterland and therefore rowing, windsurfing and water skiing really is something you can deepen. Is that too far away? Take a look at cycling and running in nature.

46. Rest at least 1 day a week

Yes, every day sports seem logical, but it is difficult to keep up. In addition, rest is essential for getting better in sports and losing weight. At rest I do not mean that you do not have to do anything all day, but go for a walk instead of running.

Simply swim the school stroke at ease instead of the breast croll. That way, your muscles can recover from all your hard work and let your body feel that you are not in an emergency and that the body needs to hold the fat.

47. Do a workout during the advertisement

Do you like watching TV shows and movies? Then you can fill out the advertisements with a workout so you do not spend the whole night on your hole. These short workouts can just be that step, making you lose weight faster than first. For example, do as much as possible pushups or squats per advertisement and try to improve it every time.

48. Do more at the garden and at home

Sometimes you want to do something different than sports but move. Maintaining your garden yourself is a good way to move extra. Such a lawn mower is still tough if you have to push it forward and clean the bathroom well in each corner is also more work than you think. The refurbishment of your home is also fun.

Moving all the furniture and maybe assembling new furniture is better than sitting down.

49. Do not think of any excuses

Sometimes it's very simple to think, but I'm tired and sitting down. That is just not a good excuse. Do not think about putting up some nice upscale music and then you can do your workout. After a workout you will always feel finer and you will never regret it, but will skip a session.

Rapid weight loss: nutritional tips

50. Set a limit to the variation

A varied dietary pattern is very important, but sometimes difficult. Instead of wondering what you are going to eat to keep your diet varied, you can make a schedule of nutrition for each week. Then you only have to think about the weekend. Additionally, you can not eat too much by accident.

51. Take 20 minutes to eat

Are you eating hap-slam away? Then there is a chance that you will soon be fed up after dinner. By eating calmly you give your body the time to indicate whether it is full. The hormone leptin that indicates whether you are full or not need 20 minutes to indicate this.

So if you have eaten what you planned, please wait 20 minutes to determine if you need more or not. By eating quietly you will also be more aware of your diet.

52. Write a weekly shopping list

Create a shopping list in advance and get all you need. A shopping list prevents impulse purchases, so it does not help to eat too much or to eat wrong things like chips that are not really on the grocery list at home. If you deliver your groceries, it is even better, because then you do not have to deal with all the incentives you have in the supermarket to still differ from your grocery list.

53. Shop on the outside corridors

Most supermarkets sell the healthiest products to the outer rows. The hallways inside are usually reserved for candy and unusual food.

54. Use your scales

Put your fruit and healthy snacks down. In that way you go before the apple if you have a trek than for that just not healthy crueslie bar.

55. Sign up for food supplies

Are you so busy you do not have the time to eat healthy? Then sign in to organizations that bring freshly made food to your home. No excuse to order a pizza quickly if you can eat a fresh salad with fish.

56. Test yourself for food allergies

If you are already eating healthy and never lose weight, something may be going on. You may be allergicto certain foods that keep your body moisture and fat. Therefore, test yourself to find out if you have to let something go wrong.

57. Avoid crash diets

A crash diet seems to be the fastest way to lose weight, but the downside is that your metabolism is also very slow. An investigation also shows that women who had a diet of 1200 calories a day lost more fat than women who followed a diet of 500 calories a day in a 24-week study.

58. Eat eggs at breakfast

Proteins provide a full sense and have relatively few calories. By starting the day with protein, make sure you eat less for the rest of the day. You get less eating bouts and it helps with weight loss.

59. Go for lean meat

Chicken, fish, turkey are great meat options for protein and low fat. In addition, they have few calories that make you eat more than pork or beef while you get the same amount of energy.

60. Avoid a nut mix

Yes, a nut mix is perfect for a little variation, but usually a nut mix also includes dried fruits, such as raisins and those filled with sugars. You just want to avoid that if you're losing weight. In addition, there are many calories that make eating too much easier. One hand a day is really more than enough, that bag does not need to be on.

61. Eat sour food

Sometimes you just have sweet and sour foods like yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut and even pickles to help you get good hunger. The advantage is that you have not eaten any sugars, but that pull has stopped.Additionally, acidification can improve your blood pressure.

62. Eat a salad at lunch

Salads are great to lose weight, because they contain many nutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, with few calories. Start as a base with lettuce, splurge over and protein, such as boiled egg or salmon, and use olive oil or lemon juice as dressing. A delicious fresh lunch that helps you to fall off.

63. Choose strong taste with little calories like sauce

Sometimes you just want a sauce with your food. In the Netherlands, the mayonnaise is quickly seized, but there is a lot of fat with little flavor. Instead, choose for mustard or herbs with olive oil as a taste additive.

64. Make your i-can-do-not-let-stand healthier

Everyone has something he can not do without. For the one is this pizza and for the other that bar of chocolate! Lovely just. Try to make that pizza healthier by eating a vegetarian pizza for example.Chocolate is even healthy at a cocoa percentage of over 70%, but you still do not have to eat too much.Do you have anything else that you just can not leave? Then look how to make that snack healthier.

65. Eliminate drinks with sugar

Soft drinks and juices are full of sugars. Try to let it stand. Only fresh fruit juice is still ok, but not more than two glasses a day. Instead of a glass of soda, take a glass of water or tea without sugar. Instead of sugar, you can also make Stevia in your tea.

66. Drink a glass of water for each meal

Now that we talk about water, this tip can be added. By drinking a glass of water for each meal, make sure you get the feeling you're full and eat less than that glass of water.

67. Drink your coffee black

Coffee has benefits like accelerating your metabolism and fat oxidation. However, this does not mean that you have to drink coffee all day or even have to do it every day, but if you do, it will drink black.

By adding nothing to you, you get too much sugar and dairy, which just harm your target to lose weight.

68. Do not drink coffee after 3 hours

By drinking coffee later in the day, the caffeine can disturb your sleep and that sleep is crucial for losing weight. Therefore, do not drink any more coffee after three o'clock in the afternoon.

69. Do not drink alcohol

Alcohol is a substance that does not completely help if you want to lose weight. It is stored directly as fat and may also disturb your fat burning.

70. Write what you want

Do you suddenly have a slipper? Then write what you feel like and in what emotional state you are. Are you angry, bored or emotional? Are you right with someone and what time is it actually? By writing this up, you'll find out if there's a trigger that you want to go snapping around and you can see those snapping boxes.

71. Eat of small plates

By using smaller plates when you eat you will automatically eat less . Large plates give you more food. So if you want to lose weight, always use a breakfast table.

72. Brush your teeth after dinner

By brushing your teeth you will lose less food in the evening, because your teeth will feel very clean and you do not want to spoil yourself. Additionally, it is also a signal to your body that it's the end of the day and time to go to bed.

73. Make your meals on weekends

Do you have crowded days? Then you can prepare your meals in the weekend to make sure you eat healthy. Even if you do not have time to cook food in the evening, you can do this on weekends and you only need to warm them up in the weeks.

74. Take your own lunch at work

It's so easy to get some sweets during lunch and just eat something less healthy because you're not home. To avoid this, you can make your healthy lunch at home on weekends or evenings before working.

75. Take 1 healthy snack on your work a day

Also, it is very attractive to walk to the candy machine to get some sweets for an intermediate snack, especially around four o'clock, take a healthy snack from home. An apple, carrots, a hard boiled egg are examples of a healthy snack.

76. Do not eat too often

Do you have the luxury position that you can do to a restaurant every day and do that? Try to do this for a maximum of 2 days a week. Even if you eat healthy food in a restaurant, you are likely to eat more than what you would eat at home.

Research shows that daily going to a restaurant is just as bad for your drug as a daily fast food restaurant.

77. Say no to the baguette

One way to make healthier health is to say no to a spoon of herb butter in advance. Save your trek for the real meal!

78. Go for the olive oil dressing

If you choose a salad in the restaurant then go for the olive oil and sour dressing instead of a fatty version.

79. Go for grilled and not fried

That fries at every meal is nice, but you can also get baked potato slices in most restaurants. Always take care that you prefer to the baked potato slices, which is healthier than the fried fry.

Also meat is grilled rather than fried.

80. Go for steamed

If nutrition is steamed , it is always the option you have to choose. This way of food preparation ensures that you retain important nutrients.

81. Make your meal personally

Often you get fries for everyone in the restaurant. Make your own choice and ask for a salad or raw food instead of fries for you.

82. Walk only 1 time

At a buffet restaurant, it is very attractive to eat too much with all the choices you have, but variation remains important. So fill half of your plate with vegetables, 1/4 of your plate of protein (egg, meat, fish) and 1/4 of your plate of carbohydrates (potatoes, rice).

83. Choose a meal with the least calories

Usually, in a vegetarian meal, the least calories are present. So before that you can choose to eat out.You can also ask the waiter which meal contains the least calories and then choose them. Then you're always good.

84. Take your own food on a flight

If you travel by plane or bus or train you can often get or buy a meal from the society. However, these meals are not always the pinnacle of healthy and skinny food. Therefore, take your own food if possible.

85. Choose for water or tea

In the airplane and on a bus trip you often get to drink too. It's nice to go for soda, but (source) water and tea without sugar are really the best options if you want to lose weight while you travel. Water also helps to reduce the symptoms of a jet lag.

86. Fixed during the trip

People do not really have to eat the two hours, even at 4 o'clock it's fine. You can also apply intermittent fasting during your trip if it does not take too long.

Fast-lose: Lifestyle

87. Take your gym bag to work

By planning ahead, you create success. After work, sports are a lot easier if you have everything already with you and do not have to go home first to pick up and get everything.

88. Take on sportswear while traveling

Travel is relaxed, but a bit of running on strange grounds is also good for losing weight and keeping your sporty rhythm. Also in your hotel room you can do a 10-minute workout. A workout is always better than no workout. Do not forget about your gymnastics.

89. Get an adjustable desk

Standing work is all in, but the whole day is also not good for you. Variation is also the best solution here.A desk that you can adjust from seat to staff office is a good solution. Then you can easily stand and sit down . Do you get a hard ass? Time to stand. Do you get rid of your back or feet? Time to sit.

90. Walk 30 minutes during your lunch

Walking after eating helps keep your blood sugar under control and to lose weight. Start with a walk after lunch, even after dinner you can do this. As an added benefit, you get fresh air and sunshine that in spring, summer and fall is also a good source of vitamin D.

91. Walk during phone calls

If you have a cordless phone, do not stay in a phone call but walk.

92. Sleep before midnight

The quality of your sleep is affected by your biological clock. Sleeping before midnight gives you better sleep. Sleeping after midnight is also associated with overweight.

93. Sleep in a dark cool room

You sleep the best in a dark and cool room. If you sleep in a room between 15.5 and 19.5 degrees, you seem to be able to sleep. Artificial light also distorts your melanin production you need to get tired and sleep well. By optimizing your room for sleep, you can improve the length and depth of your sleep.

94. Dodge your lights

To prepare your body for sleeping, it is important to dim your lights in the evening. This is a sign for your body that becomes dark, making you better sleep.

95. Turn off your tech gadgets

Light of your television, computer, tablet and smartphone confuses your mind. He thinks that the outside is still light. Therefore, set these devices 1 or 2 hours before you go to bed or leave them away.Then your body will know what's going on.

96. Read a real book

Paper does not give light. That's why you can spend the last few hours sleeping in dim light. If you do not like books, you can also read comics or magazines.

Fast lose weight: Stress

97. Check your hormones

An imbalance in your hormones can make it difficult to lose weight. For example, if you have a lot of cortisol but little adrenaline you may feel tired. Deficiencies of vitamin D3, B12 have the same effect and a lack of thyroid hormones also cause tiredness. By checking this, you can see if you need to make changes in your diet or lifestyle to eliminate shortages.

98. Take a massage every week

Massages lower your cortisol (stress hormone) and help you recover a muscle from a workout. Always a good reason to relax. Is not eligible in your budget once a week? Then try it once a month.

99. Meditate first in the morning

Meditating helps with stress and also helps to lose weight. Since stress can be a factor why you eat more than good for you, that might be the reason why it works.

100. Treat yourself to me-time

Do you often have the idea that everyone wants something from you? Take an afternoon for yourself with me-time. Me time is very good to unplug. Turn your phone on or off, and do something fun for yourself.

101. Do not see it as punishment

The most important thing is that you do this because you love your body. Do not punish yourself with sport and a strict diet that you can not handle but love your body. You must have the rest of your life there.

Finally...

Keep in mind that fasting with a maximum rate of 1.3 percent body fat per week. The most important thing is healthy food and afterwards the sport comes.

Stress is a major disruption factor and therefore it is important to stress out regularly.

Also keep in mind that a healthy body is more important than few roads. Love yourself and make your body as healthy as possible so you can do it as long as possible .

Success!

8 Tips If You Want Menu Plans

Because of the start of the schools, I want to put a number of articles on this topic as a guide in the next two weeks. Today's menu plans to stay the new hectic. But also expect nice recipes for school or work nuts, lunchtime ideas and organization in the kitchen!

With the end of the school holiday / start of the new school year in sight, I always make good intentions. I will never do this on January 1st. The pressure, the psychological effect and the dark days do not motivate me to carry on anything. How much different during the summer months if there is plenty of light and then, as it were, a new start will be made! Jackets and school bags are washed, shoes polished and injected, hair clips cut and dental check behind the hole. It's very easy to organize another ;-).

But something I've been sailing since the end of the Budget weeks is planning a week or month menu. And I miss this. The chaotic weeks of the summer holiday threw more soot in the food and I missed the rhythm of school days. So now called rhythm is in sight again, I found it a good idea to pick up the menu plans again! I am naturally impulsive and slightly chaotic, so I can easily do everything I can organize with simplicity that makes my life easier. To optimism no lack! 

And if you look nice or useful to join, I've collected these seven points that I've got a lot of when I plan my menu. Are you planning your week or month menus? I would like to hear your suggestions and tips!

1. Returning templates 
Instead of finding out the wheel every week, I have some standard dishes that I repeat every week and adjust to the season in vegetables. We eat fish twice a week twice a week, chicken and the rest of meat or vegetables with eggs. I also find oven dishes and soup very tasty and easy to prepare in advance. This I do on quiet moments of the week, so that at busy moments, usually around eating time, I only have to put something in the oven or to heat it up.

2. Remember what your favorite recipes are 
Find out which recipes are always well-liked with your family and build your repertoire to about 20 recipes so you do not really eat the same every week. With us, Indian curry, hamburgers with vegetables, stir-fry dishes and English oven dishes are very popular. With 20 recipes, you eat something that's done twice a week and think twice about something new. You can challenge yourself by having four sets of 20 recipes that go with the seasons! This way you save money by buying fruit and vegetables that is in season.

3. Think of protein 
Adding proteins. Very simple. Not carbohydrates, but proteins. So make sure you add enough of each meal to make it longer. Proteins are also the most expensive element of your meal, so look for cheaper pieces of meat such as chicken chicken and minced beef or minced meat. Also organ meat is very cheap and very nutritious. Eggs are actually still the cheapest, because even if you buy expensive organic eggs, these portions are still cheaper than fish or meat! And if you have bones left then use broth to serve as a base for soup and sauce. The natural gelatin and minerals it contains add up to your dish plus you've really used everything!

4. Tastes 
Broccoli and beans taste different every time you taste them once with Italian herbs and next time with Mexican herbs. In this way you can also transform vegetables and meat into a delicious stir-fry dish or omelette, giving her a different taste with herbs and spices. Click here for an extensive online store for herbs and spices!

5. World Cuisine 
Do not limit yourself to dull vegetables with apple sauce, but go around the world in your kitchen!Concerning point four, you can make the most delicious Asian or Southern European dishes. Buy cheap recipe books for inspiration at the cheap bookstore. Does not give if they use sugar or flour. Very often you can just omit this or add a spoon of honey or palm sugar for the taste. Flour is often used to bind and further has no added value to the dish. This way you introduce a lot more delicious recipes!

6. Reality check 
All nice and nice, that menu plans, but if your blood is not eaten, then it makes little sense .... yet? If you want to feed a difficult eater, you only cook what your child desires: fish sticks (or worse), apple sauce and peanut butter sandwiches. If you want to raise an adventure eater, you will involve your children in the whole process of preparing food. From buying at the market or shop (go to a farmer!), To clean, cut and taste. In this way, children are generally more open to new dishes.

We have two rules here when it comes to eating: 
1. In any case, it must be well-tasted of what is on the board. "I do not like it" before there is only one bite of taste, does not go up here. Very often they find out that it is very tasty and not as scary as it seems. 
2. If the children say they are full, that's fine, but they should not ask for "some sweets" one hour later. If they do, they will get zero on the run. They are not really starving, and they have more fun for the next meal, which increases the chance of a blank plate or a really full belly.

Of course there are always things that the children really do not want. But just like with many other aspects of raising, there are just things whose parents know that are good for the children and they will not always be appreciated by the latter!

7. Think outside the box 
Since we have been much more conscious of food rather than filling, concepts such as breakfast, lunch and dinner have gone out. Of course, you are stuck with school and work at certain times, but the essence of saying, a breakfast, that's a whole different story. If I have made hamburgers for the evening and have it over, then we eat it as a breakfast, possibly supplemented with a boiled egg or a smoothie. Nothing wrong and the bumps are full! Alternatively, it is nice: breakfast as dinner. Waffles, pancakes or bread (all of almond flour) with fresh fruit and coconut fall shortly before going to sleep in good soil! My husband and I never eat right in the morning. A cup of tea or coffee, but really, we both do not pass around eleven o'clock.As a result, "lunch" goes out and we eat around three o'clock. Or not. Through crowds we skip lunch, because dinner is going on! Then we'll just eat some more!

8. You are the boss 
So remember the dynamics in your family. Which meals are necessary because of the need to go to school and work, which meals can easily be made up of remnants and which dishes can be favorite and adapted.

The first couple of times you sit down to put together a week menu will be a bit puzzling, but do not forget it's not a law of Medes and Persians! Move later in the week with recipes because it's better, improvise when time is not on your side and apply your next week menu. A week menu needs to make your life easier because you do not have to think about what you will eat and because you have the items for home every day. So my advice is to do great groceries weekly and only when it is necessary to replenish the fresh products. This saves time and plans.

Are you planning a week menu? What are your favorite recipes? Share them!