When it comes to losing weight, just like everything in life we need to a little bit of inspiration to achieve our goals. If you’re serious about budging the unbudgeable, providing yourself with visual reference for you diet plans is a good start; so we’re proud to bring you the Woman’s Day virtual diet makeover.

Eating Plan day 29

The rules:

• On top of the meal plan, you can treat yourself to two snacks from our list (see below) every day;
• For more weight loss choose lower kj snacks;
• Two or three cups of instant tea and coffee with a dash of skim milk also permitted on top of this;
• All beakfasts on the four week diet are interchangeable with other breakfasts, lunches with lunches and dinners with dinners;
• Have four alcohol free days a week.

  Top tip: Please note foods in bold are free kj and you can eat as much as you like.

  Breakfast

  
  Wake up to our delicious Bircher Muesli, see recipe.
  
  

  Lunch

  
  100g pink or red tinned salmon with large mixed green salad, ¼ avocado. One small banana as a snack.
  
  

  Dinner

  
  150g grilled white fish served with vegetables dry roasted together (eggplant, zucchini, pumpkin and red capsicum). Spoon 1 tablespoon low fat hommus over the vegetables.
  
  

  Snacks

  Each day choose from any two of the following:
  
  
  • 1 apple + 1 Baby Bel cheese (700kJ);
  • 10 wholegrain rice crackers + ¼ cup low fat dip (600kj);
  • Vegetable sticks + ¼ cup low fat hommus (600kJ);
  • 4 Vita Weats + 2 slices reduced fat cheese (600kJ);
  • 1 piece of fruit (400kJ);
  • 100g low fat yoghurt (400kJ);
  • Small skim Latte (400kJ);
  • 2 corn thins + 1 tablespoon no added sugar peanut butter (400kJ);
  • One row dark chocolate (420kJ);
  • 1 Chocolate Paddle Pop (450kJ);
  • Mango Weis Bar (400kJ);
  • 1 slice raisin toast (400kJ);
  • Small glass wine (150mls) (400kJ);
  • 2 Redskin Chews (170kj);
  • One Chuppa Chup (220kj);
  • 5 pieces of chewing gum (125kg).
  
  

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  Polite portions How to quickly determine portion sizes for your meals...
  • 1 serve of rice or pasta = a fist
  • 1 piece of meat, fish or chicken = the size and width of a deck of cards
  • 1 serve of cheese = one slice, or 4 small cubes that could fit in a matchbox
  • 1 serve of butter = your fingertip