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How many healthy TV dinners are in your freezer right now? It’s ok to be honest, with names like “Lean Cuisine”, “Healthy Choice”, and “Smart Ones” how could you be going wrong with your lunch and dinners?
Sure these are low in calories but when it comes to losing fat (it’s not about losing weight, its about losing fat) are these helping you out? Of course they would love you to believe that are and they do a great job at convincing but in reality… they could be causing more harm than good.
They will help you lose initial weight but it’s hardly the amount of fat you could be losing if they weren’t in your life.
Why Lean Cuisines Are Bad (and their sister meals)
First off, sure they have fewer calories than if you go with the traditional meals, and they’re great because all you have to do is pull back the film, pop it in the microwave and a few minutes later you’ve gotten what sounds like a gourmet meal… BUT
How do they cut the calories? Sure the calories are low which helps with losing weight but to get them low they often take out fat and add in carbs. And more often than not these are not the good carbs I rave about… these are simply and starchy carbs! These carbs aren’t our weight loss friends, they are responsible for setting in motion a rise in your blood sugar… which cues your insulin to rise which then tells your body to store fat!
Things to check for… check salt intake, it’s recommended that adults get 2400 mg of sodium per day, check for “fortifications” which often means preservatives and additives.
All tv dinners are processed which is definitely not a clean meal, it’s a wise idea to stay away from foods with additives, preservatives, sodium etc as these play with your fat storage abilities and who wants to add chemicals to their body that they can’t pronounce?
For example, here’s just a few nutritional details from one meal. It has only 310 calories (not bad) but for that few calories it has 39 carbs. And the carbs are from white pasta and sugar used to make the sauce. A slice of wheat bread only has 12 g of carbs just to put it into prospective.
The better option…
I do have good news, there is a clean eating microwavable dinner available that can help with weight loss… Kashi is a great option. It’s all natural, great portions and I think they taste great too. The only problem I have is that of course they are more expensive.
The even better option is to go for fresh ingredients and make your own meals. Meals don’t have to take forever to make. You can have a great lunch box packed in less than 5 minutes. And during the week my dinners never take more than 30 minutes to fix.
The Facts…
Here are the nutrition labels for both the regular Stouffer’s Mac and Cheese and the Lean Cuisine version… I do agree that overall the Lean Stouffer’s wins over the real deal but when it comes down to it either are really helping to get the ultimate body! But it is better than eating fast food and big portions.
But for the best results go with natural, bag lunches!
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Lean Cuisines… Weight Loss Friend Or Foe?
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