Date and Issue: 1999. Pages: 1 page. Pictures: 1 color photo.
Article: 5-day diet.
Author: None. Country: USA.
Lose up to 4 lbs. fast on this simple 800-calorie-a-day diet. SO YOUR wedding bells are just a week away. And months of planning has whipped everything into shape — except you! Now only four pounds keep you from total perfection. What to do? Try this easy 800-calorie-a-day diet and look super slim on your big day.
MONDAY. BREAKFAST: 1/2 cup unsweetened orange juice, 2/3 oz. fortified dry cereal (try raisin bran, cornflakes); 1/2 cup skim milk. LUNCH: Chef's Salad, (2 oz. low-fat American cheese, lettuce, tomato, carrot, cucumber, mush-rooms, 2 tablespoons low-calorie dressing*); 4 whole-grain crackers; 1/2 cup skim milk. DINNER: Broiled Lemon Chick-en (4 oz. cooked chicken breast, skinned, marinated in 1/4 cup lemon juice with 1 small minced garlic clove, 1 tablespoon onion, dash of thyme and pepper); steamed asparagus, carrots. SNACK: 1 small apple.
TUESDAY. BREAKFAST: Poached egg made in a nonstick skillet served on i slice of whole-grain toast; 1/2 cup skim milk. LUNCH: 1/2 cup plain low-fat yogurt; 1/4 cup mixed fresh fruit **; 2 slices 40 calorie bread; 1/2 cup cottage cheese. DINNER: Stuffed Pita Pocket (1 small pita pouch with 4 oz. ground veal, tomato, onion and lettuce); chilled steamed zucchini and carrots marinated in 2 tablespoons low-calorie Italian dressing. SNACK: 1/2 cup pineapple canned in its own juice.
WEDNESDAY. BREAKFAST: 1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese baked with sugar replacement and cinnamon; 1 slice whole-grain toast; 1/2 cantaloupe. LUNCH: Chicken Sandwich (3 oz. broiled chicken with tomato, alfalfa sprouts, mustard on 2 slices 40 calorie bread); carrots celery, radishes. DINNER: Baked Herbed Fish (4 oz. cooked fish fillet — flounder sole or scrod — seasoned with 2 tablespoons lemon juice and 1/2 teaspoon dill); steamed green beans; 1 small baked potato with 2 oz. low-fat yogurt. SNACK: 1 cup skim milk or 1 cur milk-based diet hot cocoa; i/2 medium banana.
THURSDAY. BREAKFAST: 2/3 oz. fortified dry cereal with 1/2 medium banana; 1/2 cup skim milk. LUNCH: 112 cup low-fat cottage cheese with 1/2 cup pineapple *$ and shredded carrots on lettuce: 4 slices Melba toast. DINNER: Broiled Chicken Teriyaki (4 oz. cooked chicken breast, skinned, marinated in l tablespoon teriyaki sauce, dash garlic powder and ginger): steamed zucchini; 1/2 cup rice. SNACK: i/2 cup berries.
FRIDAY. BREAKFAST: 1/2 grapefruit **; 112 cup hot cereal; 1/2 cup skim milk. LUNCH: Tuna Sandwich (3 oz, water-packed tuna mixed with minced onion, chopped celery, 1 tablespoon reduced calorie mayonnaise on 2 slices 40 calorie whole-grain bread with tomato and lettuce); 1/2 cup skim milk. DINNER: Mushroom Omelet (2 eggs and sliced mushroom: made in a nonstick skillet): broiled tomato; steamed broccoli with lemon juice. SNACK: 1/2 cantaloupe.
* Label of low-calorie salad dressing should specify 20 calories or fewer per tablespoon. ** Unsweetened frozen or re. duced-calorie canned fruit (o, fruit packed in own juice) may be substituted for fresh fruit. Copyright © 1991 The Diet Workshop.
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