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Heart Healthy Meal Plan (1500 Calorie)
Non Low Carb - Healthy Weight Loss Diet Plan

When selecting a heart healthy meal plan, make sure you are consuming a balanced and complete diet. Your assignment is to set realistic and attainable diet goals. Start by following the simple guidelines below. 

Nutritional and Healthy Meal Guidelines

  1. Commit to consuming 4 - 6 small meals and snacks everyday.
     
  2. To succeed, you must plan ahead by packing your foods the night before. Thus, you should always have fresh and low-fat foods around.
     
  3. Keep it simple. Don't get too caught up on the specifics or your diet. Start by simply just counting calories.
     
  4. Eat your foods slower.
     
  5. Make healthier food selections like fruits, vegetables, whole grain cereals, and beans, low-fat or nonfat dairy products, low fat meats, fish and skinless poultry.
     
  6. Avoid foods that are high in fat and calories.
     
  7. Avoid foods that are high in sugars such as pastries, candy bars, pies and candy.
     
  8. Use a variety of fruits and vegetables in your nutrition plan. Start by trying to eat 5 total vegetable and fruit servings every single day.

Here is a sample healthy low fat meal plan (1517 calories).

Breakfast
Amount Item Protein Carbs Fats Calories
12 ounces coffee-w/caffeine 0.40 1.40 0.00 8.00
1 cup Milk 8.00 11.00 5.00 120.00
1 tbps cream,fluid,half and half 0.44 0.65 1.73 19.55
1 pack Oatmeal-instant,maple,brn sugar Quaker 4.50 31.60 2.10 152.00
Total: 13.34 44.65 8.82 299.55
AM Snack
1 cup Cottage cheese- 1%fat 28.00 6.00 2.00 164.00
0.5 cup Pineapple-canned, chunks 0.00 18.00 0.00 70.00
Total: 28.00 24.00 2.00 234.00
Lunch
2 each bread whole wheat-slice 6.00 24.00 2.00 140.00
1 cubic inch cheddar cheese 4.26 0.15 4.12 56.36
.15 cup mayo 0.32 8.47 11.77 137.37
1 ounce turkey breast/white meat 8.50 0.00 0.20 38.25
.25 small Tomato-small 0.25 1.43 0.10 6.50
Total: 19.33 34.36 18.19 378.48
PM Snack
8 each Cracker/Nabisco-Low Saltines 1.60 16.00 3.20 96.00
1 ounce Turkey/white meat 8.50 0.00 0.20 38.25
Total: 10.12 16.00 3.40 134.25
Dinner
5 ounces Halibut - broiled 37.50 0.00 5.00 198.75
1 cup rice-white cook steamed 6.00 62.00 0.00 164.00
2 tbps Thousand island-reduced cal. Kraft 0.00 6.00 2.00 40.00
0.5 cup Vegetables - mixed, frozen, boiled 2.60 11.90 0.10 54.00
1 small salad-sm. Garden w/tomato, onion 1.30 9.50 0.40 49.00
1 tsp Sugar-white 0.00 4.00 0.00 15.00
12 fluid ounces Tea-prepared w/tap water 0.00 1.00 0.00 4.00
Total: 44.80 82.50 7.40 470.75
 
Grand Total: 115.58 201.50 39.82 1517.04
Grocery List
Food Quantity
Apple - medium with peel 7 each
Banana - medium 8 inch 7 each
Bread whole wheat - slice 14 each
Broccoli 7 spears
Cheerios 10.5 cups
Chicken Breast / White Meat 28 ounces
Coffee- w/caffeine 84 ounces
Cream, fluid, half and half 7 tablespoons
Halibut - broiled 35 ounces
Mayo type, reg., w/salt 1 cup
Milk - 2 % fat 7 cups
Orange - medium 7 each
Sugar - white 14 tea spoons
Rice - white 7 cups
Thousand island - reduced cal. 7 table spoons
Turkey Breast / White Meat 14 ounces
Tea 82 ounces

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