Heart Healthy Meal Plan (1500 Calorie) Non Low Carb - Healthy Weight Loss Diet Plan

Reposting from ChangingShape.com

When selecting a heart healthy meal plan, make sure you are consuming a balanced and complete diet. Your assignment is to set realistic and attainable diet goals. Start by following the simple guidelines below.

Nutritional and Healthy Meal Guidelines

1. Commit to consuming 4 - 6 small meals and snacks everyday.
    
2. To succeed, you must plan ahead by packing your foods the night before. Thus, you should always have fresh and low-fat foods around.
    
3. Keep it simple. Don't get too caught up on the specifics or your diet. Start by simply just counting calories.
    
4. Eat your foods slower.
    
5. Make healthier food selections like fruits, vegetables, whole grain cereals, and beans, low-fat or nonfat dairy products, low fat meats, fish and skinless poultry.
    
6. Avoid foods that are high in fat and calories.
    
7. Avoid foods that are high in sugars such as pastries, candy bars, pies and candy.
    
8. Use a variety of fruits and vegetables in your nutrition plan. Start by trying to eat 5 total vegetable and fruit servings every single day.

Here is a sample healthy low fat meal plan (1517 calories).

Breakfast
	Amount	Item	Protein	Carbs	Fats	Calories
	12 ounces	coffee-w/caffeine	0.40	1.40	0.00	8.00
	1 cup	Milk	8.00	11.00	5.00	120.00
	1 tbps	cream,fluid,half and half	0.44	0.65	1.73	19.55
	1 pack	Oatmeal-instant,maple,brn sugar Quaker	4.50	31.60	2.10	152.00
	Total:		13.34	44.65	8.82	299.55
AM Snack
	1 cup	Cottage cheese- 1%fat	28.00	6.00	2.00	164.00
	0.5 cup	Pineapple-canned, chunks	0.00	18.00	0.00	70.00
	Total:		28.00	24.00	2.00	234.00
Lunch
	2 each	bread whole wheat-slice	6.00	24.00	2.00	140.00
	1 cubic inch	cheddar cheese	4.26	0.15	4.12	56.36
	.15 cup	mayo	0.32	8.47	11.77	137.37
	1 ounce	turkey breast/white meat	8.50	0.00	0.20	38.25
	.25 small	Tomato-small	0.25	1.43	0.10	6.50
	Total:		19.33	34.36	18.19	378.48
PM Snack
	8 each	Cracker/Nabisco-Low Saltines	1.60	16.00	3.20	96.00
	1 ounce	Turkey/white meat	8.50	0.00	0.20	38.25
	Total:		10.12	16.00	3.40	134.25
Dinner
	5 ounces	Halibut - broiled	37.50	0.00	5.00	198.75
	1 cup	rice-white cook steamed	6.00	62.00	0.00	164.00
	2 tbps	Thousand island-reduced cal. Kraft	0.00	6.00	2.00	40.00
	0.5 cup	Vegetables - mixed, frozen, boiled	2.60	11.90	0.10	54.00
	1 small	salad-sm. Garden w/tomato, onion	1.30	9.50	0.40	49.00
	1 tsp	Sugar-white	0.00	4.00	0.00	15.00
	12 fluid ounces	Tea-prepared w/tap water	0.00	1.00	0.00	4.00
	Total:		44.80	82.50	7.40	470.75
	Grand Total:		115.58	201.50	39.82	1517.04

Grocery List

Food	Quantity
Apple - medium with peel	7 each
Banana - medium 8 inch	7 each
Bread whole wheat - slice	14 each
Broccoli	7 spears
Cheerios	10.5 cups
Chicken Breast / White Meat	28 ounces
Coffee- w/caffeine	84 ounces
Cream, fluid, half and half	7 tablespoons
Halibut - broiled	35 ounces
Mayo type, reg., w/salt	1 cup
Milk - 2 % fat	7 cups
Orange - medium	7 each
Sugar - white	14 tea spoons
Rice - white	7 cups
Thousand island - reduced cal.	7 table spoons
Turkey Breast / White Meat	14 ounces
Tea	82 ounces