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1000 Calorie Menu
1000 Calorie Menu is 7-day diet plan only for those obese people who just began their lose-weight diet plan, or those who want to lose weight fast and slim in short term. As a normal person needs at least 1200 Calories to keep basic activities each day, so no matter what conditions you are in , you shouldn't try this menu for above 2 weeks. 1000 Calorie Menu Nutrition and Heat Information Table
7-day 1000 Calorie Menu (exchange unit. 1ounce=30gram, 1cup=200ml,1tsp(teaspoon)=2g, 1tbs(tablespoon)=5g ) For detail recipes,pls click each day's first column on the left of the table.
Tips: If egg is not cooked with other food,it's better to eat boiled egg. Milk should be skim milk. Bread should be whole wheat bread. In ancient Chinese medical book "Huang Di Nei Jing" suggested that diet should take grains(cereal) as main food, fruit as assistant, meat as benefit,and vegetables as supplement. Interesting is, this diet food structure is the same as that of American Food Pyramid. In traditional Chinese regimen, porridge nourish human being most, especially for patient.Here is a story about how grain porridge saved a young man's life. Long long ago, if a man wanted to become a government officer, he must take part in an examination called "Keju".A young man studied very hard but didn't pass the exam for several times. He was anxious and melancholy,and laid down at last. Many doctors used many different kinds of medicine and treatment, but it seemed no one can save him. He was too weak to get up and couldn't eat any food,almost die. At last his family asked help for the most famous doctor in the country. After taking a look,the doctor gave his prescription: don't ask the patient to take any medicine, cook grain porridge, let the patient to eat porridge several times a day. Though the patient's family doubted his prescription's effect,they had no choice but take a try. A few days later after eating porridge, miracle happened. The patient began to feel hungry and want to eat food. You know when a dying patient begins to eat food,he has the hope to survive. Needless to say the young man got well at last. So often eating grain porridge is good to our health. And it's easy to make. Just put all the grains you can find together,such as rice,millet,brown rice,barley,oat,corn,buckwheat,Job's Tears,small red bean,kidney bean,peanut,sweet potato,etc.clean,add 10times water,soaked in water 1-2 hours,then cook 1-2 hours over low heat. Or you can buy the cooker especially for cooking porridge. Put all the grains and water in the cooker before sleep for the first night. In the morening of the second day, you can eat very delicious porridge. Or do it before you go to work in the morning, and eat after you come back from work. Fresh fruit juice can be absorbed 70-80% by our body while only 20-30% can be absorbed if we eat original fruit. For the edible fiber, you may get from other food such as vegetables. Further more, fresh fruit juice can be absorbed well in the morning. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory,human's metabolism is very active in the morning,and gradually inactive after 4pm. So if you intake very less heat after 4pm while exercising 4 hours each day(When others are having their dinner,you are doing exercise. And you won't feel hungary because you already eating the whole day's food before 4pm). You'll no doubt lose weight sooner or later while keeping very good habit and health.
If you don't know how to cook or are busy, you may ask a local Chinese restaurant to cook for you. Or you may hire a Chinese student to cook for you.
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