How I Lost Weight + Starter Menu

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The basics:
1) Start each day with warm lemon water and end each day with warm peppermint tea.

2) Try to stay away from all "sauces" such as BBQ sauce, mayonnaise, etc. for salad dressings you want to work you're way up to drizzling only olive oil and fresh squeezed lemon juice or balsamic vinegar on your salad with salt and pepper.

3) Eat a handful of almonds, walnuts or pistachios several times a week.

4) Check labels to make sure you're not eating anything with high fructose corn syrup. (Ketchup, crackers, etc)

5) Work your way up to buying organic. Especially when it comes to milk and eggs and apples.

6) Don't eat processed foods - basically anything in a box or can from the grocery store. (Too many chemicals and preservatives)

7) Aim to stay away from bread (even wheat), corn, pasta, rice - any grains. Steel Cut Oatmeal will be your only exception (for now)

8) WATER, WATER, and more WATER

9) Always keep snacks in your purse. A small granola bar is ok but look for organic.

10) Freeze anything that you make too much of, and out in small individual containers so that you can pull it out another week when you don't feel like cooking. Especially soups.

11) Don't eat SOY anything.

Monday
Breakfast: smoothie with spinach
Lunch: salad (try with albacore tuna in water with chopped celery and VERY  little mayonnaise)
Snack: trail mix
Dinner: chicken breast with sautéed onions and mushrooms and a vegetable on the side such as broccoli or green beans

Tuesday
Breakfast: cantaloupe or fresh cut fruit salad
Lunch: lettuce wrap with leftover chicken and fruit on the side
Snack: Fruit
Dinner: Salmon (great for omega 3's) with your choice of seasonings. Lemon pepper is a good one.  Or fresh squeezed lemon with , dill, salt and pepper. Always drizzle olive oil over it first  then bake on 425 for about 15 minutes but check it at 10 minutes. Side of quartered and baked butternut squash with a dash of cinnamon and olive oil, salt and pepper.

Wednesday
Breakfast: scrambled eggs mixed with leftover salmon and spinach and onions
Lunch: salad with grilled chicken- add raw pieces of broccoli and fruit on the side
Dinner: Sautéed Spinach mixed with red bell peppers and shrimp

Thursday
Breakfast: grapefruit (a great fiber) and fried or boiled egg (great protein)
Lunch: shrimp salad using leftover shrimp
Dinner: baked or grilled curry or jerk chicken breast with whole baked sweet potato and asparagus on the side

Friday
Breakfast: smoothie
Lunch: Cobb salad
Dinner: homemade chicken soup with organic chicken broth, chopped chicken breasts, celery, carrots, mushrooms and kale

Saturday
Breakfast: oatmeal
Lunch: leftover soup
Dinner: seafood fest of your choice with side salad!!

CHALLENGE: visit a healthy grocery store like Whole Foods or an outdoor Farmers Market and look for these new items to add to your grocery list:

1) "grass fed" butter
2) organic chicken (meaning no hormones and pesticides and preservatives)