{"id":430,"date":"2008-05-01T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/finally-starting-on-the-biggest-loser-meals\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:14:00","slug":"finally-starting-on-the-biggest-loser-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/finally-starting-on-the-biggest-loser-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally Starting on the Biggest Loser Meals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like I&#8217;ve written a lot of posts before we&#8217;ve eaten a single meal,  finally we started the plan on Monday morning! It looks like a week heavy on chicken &#8212; six out of ten meals.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only two full days on the program, but so far so good. The food doesn&#8217;t taste like homemade, but it&#8217;s still tasty. I&#8217;m a little hungry, but not starving.  And for me the best part is not thinking about the food.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;ve been on diets that I&#8217;ve had to prepare and shop for the foods, I found I &#8220;thought&#8221; about it all day long.  Then by the time I shopped and cooked it, I would think about it even more and get hungry.  My portion sizes would vary and soon the &#8220;deck of cards&#8221; size meat portion would be the size of &#8220;two decks of cards&#8221;.  With this meal plan I love that everything is prepared, in portion-control sizes and all I have to do is make a salad, heat and eat!<\/p>\n<p>The company suggests heating the food pouches in boiling water, but a microwave can also be used. I didn&#8217;t see much difference in the taste of the food, but it&#8217;s easier to boil the pouches. Since I&#8217;m doing two meals at once, I haven&#8217;t quite figured out how much longer they need to be cooked. That will come with time.<\/p>\n<p>The main meals of lunch and dinner have consisted of three pouches that are heated and then combined together.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thecookiejar.net\/DIR\/lunch1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<sup><br \/>\nLunch pouches before cooking<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip:<\/strong> Be sure to drain the juices out of the veggie pouches and some of the juices out of the meat, otherwise it can turn into a soggy mess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MONDAY<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Breakfast:<\/strong><br \/>\nBreakfast was called a Chocolate Doughnut, not really how I would describe it, more like a chocolate pastry.  Actually I&#8217;m not used to eating something this sweet for breakfast, so that took some getting used to and the portion was a bit small (especially compared to other meals). I think it could almost satisfy my chocolate cravings!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Calorie Count: 90<\/li>\n<li> My personal score would be a 6 out of 10.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lunch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My first lunch was Chicken in a Thai curry sauce over white rice w\/vegetables. I thought this was pretty good. It was both filling and tasty, can&#8217;t get much better than that.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calorie Count: 430<\/li>\n<li>Personal score 7 out of 10.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thecookiejar.net\/DIR\/lunch1b.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<sup><br \/>\nChicken in Thai Curry Sauce<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong> Dinner:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dinner was a Chicken breast in Marsala sauce over low carb pasta.  Since pasta is one of my downfalls, I was very happy to have it for the first day&#8217;s dinner. After having two fairly tasty meals, this was the first disappointment. The meal was filling, but the chicken was a little dry and tough.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calorie count: 420<\/li>\n<li>Personal score 5 out of 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thecookiejar.net\/DIR\/dinner1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<sup>Chicken in Marsala Sauce<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snacks<\/strong>:<br \/>\nOne thing that would be a nice to have is a list of snacks or extras that would be a good addition to the day&#8217;s plan. On Monday I also ate an apple, 1\/2 tangerine, a green salad with diet dressing and a small handful of almonds. The meals were certainly less than I would normally eat, but were satisfying. I was a little hungry, but it was manageable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TUESDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Breakfast:<\/strong><br \/>\nA Blueberry Protein Waffle didn&#8217;t look very appetizing when it came out of the package, but the addition of the sugar-free syrup helped make it yummy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calorie Count: 185<\/li>\n<li>Personal score 7 out of 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lunch:<\/strong><br \/>\nChicken in a Bourbon Sauce with mixed vegetables and broccoli was another filling lunch that was tasty. Although this is the third chicken meal in a row, two of them were pretty good with nice sized chunks of tender meat that were identifiable (as opposed to some of the frozen meals tried in the past).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calorie Count: 265<\/li>\n<li> Personal Score: 7 out of 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dinner:<\/strong><br \/>\nFinally no chicken! This meal was a Beef Pot Roast with asparagus and mixed corn. If there is one thing I can do, it&#8217;s make a mean pot roast and this didn&#8217;t compare to homemade. But it was still good and filling. The veggies were both colorful and tasty.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calorie Count: 530<\/li>\n<li>Personal Score: 8 out of 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s snacks consisted of another apple, green salad with diet dressing, a few bite-size tomatoes and a handful of almonds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking Forward<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s onto the hump day of the week, I&#8217;ll not be able to eat the prepared lunch on Wednesday, but will still try and keep the calorie and nutritional counts about the same. Also, I won&#8217;t bore everyone with posting our daily menu, but wanted everyone to get an idea of what the foods are like. I&#8217;ll check back in over the weekend with a report on how the entire week went.<\/p>\n<p><em>Need more? 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