There are still three meals of the day, but if you're like me, obsessing over what to eat about them makes it that much harder to stay on track. So, I keep it simple. Keep your breakfast and lunches inexpensive, healthy and goal-oriented. No measuring, no calorie counting, no fussing. Straight to the good stuff.
Breakfast is about one thing: getting as much fiber into your system as possible Find yourself a high-fiber, crunchy breakfast cereal. Throw a little 2% milk over it. Voila! Get to work!
Diana Mirkin has a great list of high fiber, whole grain cereals to choose from: How To Pick A Breakfast Cereal
Lunch, on the other hand, is about one other thing: getting as much calcium into you as possible. I recommend plain, non-fat yogurt (with live or active cultures) dressed up with some jam or cinnamon or dill or raisins or ... really, whatever you have lying around. I throw a little wheat germ in for the texture and a little bit more fiber.
The advantages to buying plain, no fat yogurt with live or active cultures is it is extremely low calorie, high in calcium and inexpensive. And you can take it to lunch. Usually a two-pound container lasts me about five days; perfect for storing in the refrigerator at work.
Found this 1994 article from USA Today that has a great deal of good information on yogurts: Yogurt
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