This plan is a perfect balance of macronutrients making you feel as though you are not on a diet.

We will commence the 1500 calorie diet with a replacement of all the junk food in your refrigerator. This will be replaced with the necessary ingredients to make you the healthiest you have ever been. But rather than just ditching the contents of your fridge, why not invite

some friends round and explain that you are having a wild bachelor night before embarking on a change of life. Serve

up the stuff you need to get rid of: white bread sandwiches of canned spam with fatty mayo, jam, cakes,

chips, cookies and anything else that contains sugar, white flour, potatoes, pasta or animal fat.

Serve up all your sodas, even your diet sodas, full cream milk and cordials. If you still have any junk food left at the

end of the evening, give away doggie bags.

Now comes the exciting part. You have to eat so you must go shopping, but you have now have a new shopping list; one to provide you with the necessary ingredients to start

your 1500 calorie diet.

If you are grossly overweight and our 1500 calorie diet is a tremendous reduction in calories for you, go and see your

doctor and get a check up and some advice on how the new diet will affect you physically. He will not be able to give you nutritional advice unless he is a dietician as well

(highly unlikely), but he will tell you how your internal organs will stand up to a severe change of diet.

If you are what we might politely call 'normal cuddly', then the change will do you the world of good. Check out the 1500 calorie diet plan, make out your list, and then you

can do your shopping. We are aiming at providing macronutrients by way of 40% protein, 30% carbohydrates

and 30% essential fats.

Sample 1500 Calorie Diet Menu

Breakfast:

A dish of oat bran with or without a little skimmed milk. Slice up a banana and drop it in and sprinkle over with

coconut sugar or a little honey.

Mid Morning Snack:

2 egg whites and 1 whole egg scrambled on a piece of whole wheat toast

Lunch:

2 chicken breasts on a bed of shredded lettuce with 1 cup pinto beans

Mid Afternoon Snack:

2 Quaker oatmeal cookies and 1 glass of skimmed milk

Evening Meal:

1 salmon steak about 150 grams, 1 cup of broccoli florets, and 150 grams sliced yam. Followed by 1 cup of

strawberries or grapes.

Another Sample 1500 Calorie Diet Menu

Breakfast:

1 poached egg on whole wheat toast followed by a small carton of yoghurt.

Morning snack:

Make a fruit smoothie with a chopped banana, 1/2 cup of grapes, 1 small carton of yoghurt and blend until it's a

smoothie.

Lunchtime:

Make a salad with shredded lettuce, sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumber, chopped celery, halved grapes, chopped

apple, and olives. Dress with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar, sprinkle with dried basil. Top with a

hard-boiled egg or lean meat of your choice.

Mid Afternoon Snack:

1 small apple sliced with a peanut butter dip.

Evening Meal:

Wash 2 carrots, 1 small yam, 1 parsnip sliced, peel 1 onion and wipe them over with extra virgin olive oil. Season

them and place them in a baking dish with 1 chicken leg. Bake in a hot oven for around 1 hour on a medium heat.

1500 Calorie Diet Menu is Flexible

These ingredients are not carved in stone and can be replaced and juggled to suit you. After a while you will find that you are increasing your knowledge about what to eat and what not to eat. The internet is a great research tool

and it is cheap to get an education about any subject; dieting is no exception.

All you have to remember is to get your protein from lean meat like chicken, turkey and fish and your best fats are none-animal fats - extra virgin olive oil, peanut oil and

avocado. Eat fresh fruit and vegetables and whole wheat products as your carbohydrates.

Make this 1500 calorie diet menu plan the starting point for a change of lifestyle and you will reap the rewards with

a slimmer healthier body.

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