Starting a VLCD Diet – Menu Tips!!!

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Starting a VLCD Diet – Menu Tips!!!

Today’s TV tip Tuesday is all about finding the menu that fits you. To begin with we will outline the elements that are fixed, first of which is the quantity of TFR items needed per day. We recommend having four items from our TFR range each day, regardless of whether you are male or female. Having four TFR items per day ensures that you get the right balance of nutrients.

Many customers believe that having less products a day will speed up weight loss, in some instances it may slow it down as your body will try even harder to hold onto its reserves if it feels that there too much of a nutritional deficit.  This brings in the next key element which is the fact that we suggest limiting the number of bars consumed in a day to one.

The third and very important element is the amount of water that needs to be drunk on any given day, we suggest trying to drink between two and four litres per day. The important thing to remember though is that drinking too much water at any one point in time can be dangerous and therefore it is important to try and space it out as much as possible. For those of you that are new to the plan tea and coffee do count towards your daily water allowance and the guidelines for these is to try and keep them black, and any type that comes from a leaf is ok to use on the plan, avoid ones containing extracts from fruits or flowers. 250ml of skimmed milk a day can be used but it is best to try and avoid this and if you need a sweetener it is important to use the tablet form sweetener rather than the spoon-able type.

The fourth and final point for today’s discussion is the snacks. The snacks which are located at the bottom of the list when ordering a bundle are not to be confused with anything from the TFR range above. They are high protein but are not nutritionally complete which means that they cannot be used in place of a TFR product. These items are useful at times when you are struggling in the plan as they are ketogenic and therefore will ensure that you remain on track. Ultimately you want to aim to have only one of these every second or third day.

The above key elements can be used to refine your plan and draw up a menu that suits you, and there is no harm in changing things half way through if it keeps it interesting for you. www.thenewyouplan.com

For instance when I started the plan my daily menu looked like this:

Breakfast: shake (my favourite is the new Vanilla shake)

Lunch: bar (I love them all but the new hazelnut bar has toped my list)

Afternoon: shake (Vanilla again)

Evening: Hot meal (used to be spicy spaghetti but now I also have chicken noodle curry)

Towards the end of the plan I changed and my menu looked like this:

Breakfast: shake

Lunch: shake

Afternoon: shake

Evening: bar

This is what suited me as I don’t need to be to adventurous with my menu, some customers I speak to insist on having something different at each point of the day and their menu may look something like this:

Morning: porridge

Lunch: shake

Afternoon: soup

Evening: Hot meal

The purpose of showing these menu plans is to show how diverse the products are and how freely you can use them to draw up a menu of your own.

This brings me to one of the last questions that I am most frequently asked which is, when should I be having my products? Again the answer to this depends on your personal circumstance and one of the only real guidelines here is you need to have at least 4 of the TFR products in any 24 hour period.

I personally found that trying to space the items as evenly as possible throughout the day and consuming water regularly between the products helped keep my energy levels consistent throughout the day and the routine helped keep me on track as I am quite a forgetful person.

[box type=”download” size=”large” style=”rounded” border=”full”]We would love to hear how you plan your menus so we can pass the ideas onto others and we would also love to hear how you plan the timing of your NY products throughout your day, again to help give others an idea of what might work for them.[/box]

Thanks for reading and I hope you all have an amazing week.

Kind regards

Grant

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