One way to save time during the week (and to stick to plan) is to prepare food ahead of time. I spent part of Sunday afternoon preparing (from left to right, top row to bottom): Spinach Chick Pea Curry, basmatic rice, cucumbers/carrots/hummus, pre-cut cheese pieces (30g) for snack, clementine/pineapple fruit salad (banana will be cut at eating time), 2 bowls filled with my scrambled egg fixings*, 1 bowl with 2 servings of cereal (Kashi, All Bran, soy pieces).

* Scrambled egg fixings: diced low fat cheese, chopped spinach, chopped zucchini and chopped mushrooms. See my recipe: Suzanne’s Low Calorie / High Protein Easy Scrambled Eggs

What can YOU do to save yourself some time this week — and stick to plan?

There’s a lot of bad diet advice floating around out there that’s designed to make the dieter feel better about making the wrong choices. You need to be told the truth — because you could be putting your health (not just your waistline) at risk.

Make sure you’re not making one of these five diet blunders — and if you are, don’t beat yourself up about it — just get back on the straight and narrow path right away!

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Anytime the topic of discussion in my blogs, articles or newsletters has turned to my own personal grocery shopping list, there has always been a spike in interest. It seems that many people are not only curious about what foods a natural bodybuilder eats to maintain single digit body fat, but they also want to be taken by the hand and told exactly what foods to eat themselves while on fat-burning or muscle building programs. That’s why I decided to put together four separate “top 10″ lists of healthy foods that burn fat and build muscle.

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We all understand how important it is not to eat too much fat, too many carbohydrates or sugar in our diet. However, the majority of us don’t know how much and what is in the food we buy in the supermarket.

Luckily, all items that are packaged have to, by law, include what’s in them. For example, they have to tell you how much salt and fat is in the item. These have to be clearly labeled on the product. That makes it so much simpler — or does it?

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