Plus, a lot of people don’t have TIME to cook three healthy meals a day. Some of us have work, school, etc. Popping a Lean Cuisine in the microwave is still a lot better than stopping at Jack-in-the-Box on the way home.

If it works for you (and it has for me!) then more power to you!

I think eating frozen meals everyday for 6 months can’t be worse for you than eating “to go” crap and being obese for most of your adult life. This plan works for me, and its slowly changing my life for the better. Now that the weight is dropping I can exercise easier as well.

Also, while they are probably just as horrible for me, Amy’s frozen foods are at least organic and I think they taste better than a lot of the more standard choices. (http://www.amyskitchen.com) Also, I use PhysicsDiet.com to track my results. They are sorta bare bones, but they get the job done without much hassle.

I have an apple and an orange juice for breakfast, I have a (big) sandwich + salad for lunch. Almost every night I have a 600 – 700 calorie pre packaged meal for dinner. They’re not very processed and there’s a lot of variety and yes, some even have raw ingredients. Between meals I mostly eat fruit or soup. Most days I guess I’m between 1500 and 2000 Calories. Some days I binge (fried food, chips, chocolate bar). I hardly exercise except 10 minutes bike to/from work.

I’ve lost 15lb in 3 months. Never needing to think about cooking does make it much easier. If I cook myself it’s too easy to prepare and then eat more than I need. Not having a kitchen full of ingredients or breakfast cereal makes it less likely that I snack on them.

This approach has given me more success than my previous attempts that were based on increasing regular exercise (which is also important but not practical for me right now). I’ve kind of stabilized and I have no intention of changing my diet back again. Yes being on permanent “restriction” is annoying, and never cooking is pathetic, but so is heart disease and a beer gut.

You’ve lectured about how there are things you have to admit to yourself if you want to be successful losing weight. You’re going to have to admit to yourself that you must eat fresh, minimally processed food regularly if you want to be healthy.

I’m glad that you lost weight through calorie control, but please…there’s enough bullshit misinformation out there about diet and exercise already.

Come on, man, I’d expect this kind of shallow tripe from Lifehacker, but I thought you were trying to rise above that a little…

-mike, who was at the gym at 5:00am

Of late, bringing the same lunch to work at least four days a week. Consisting of this:
2 handfuls of bag salad greens in a tupperware container
small tupperware cup of low cal italian dressing
Campbells soup at hand (preferably Chicken with Mini Noodles, only 90 calories)
Lunch Pak bag of Wheat Thins
60 Calorie Light & Fit yogurt
Fruit (apple or orange for nibbling on)

This has been doing the trick for me for over a month. If you can nibble on this and stay the hell away from the snack machine it’ll help you too.

Also switch to Diet soda, but that goes without saying. Doesn’t it?

And don’t worry, there are no ads and I’m not selling anything. It’s just good old common sense. :)

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