When it comes to sticking with your weight loss diet, if you’re primarily eating chicken, fish, oatmeal, brown rice, potatoes, vegetables, and almonds, you’re going to get bored.
Even the most dilegent of eaters wouldn’t last long on such fare unless they had damaged taste buds of some sort.
Luckily, weight loss diets don’t have to be this boring. There are plenty of ways to make otherwise non-diet food healthier so you can include it on your plans without seeing a weight loss set-back.
Here are some simple ways to add extra nutrition to classic favorites that you might have shunned for quite some time. Remember that weight loss success will boil down to total calories taken in during the day, thus so long as you are managing this and still getting in mostly nutritious choices, you’re right on track.
Frosted Flakes With All Bran Flakes
Loved Frosted Flakes as a kid but haven’t had it in ages since you’ve become an ‘adult’? Well, it’s time to bring back the frosted flakes!
By mixing half a bowl of the sweetened cereal with a half a bowl of bran flakes, you’re boosting the nutritional content while still adding a bit more flavor.
Fruit Yogurt With Cottage Cheese
While yogurt is generally still considered a healthier option, if you’re not choosing the very low sugar kind and watching the total fat content of the yogurt, you could do better.
Still though, if instead you opt to mix in half a cup of cottage cheese with a few spoonfuls of your favorite yogurt, you just doubled the protein content, decreased the total sugar, and created a perfectly healthy snack that can be part of any diet program.
Kraft Dinner With Tuna and Vegetables
Kraft Dinner, as tasty as it is, often means big dietary damage. Eating by itself, you’re likely to consume half the box which is going to leave you with a very large dose of carbs, a good amount of fat, and very little protein.
It doesn’t have to be this way though. Consider mixing in a can of tuna with your Kraft Dinner, along with some frozen vegetables while it cooks.
This will up both the protein and vitamin content, not too mention you’ll eat less actual Kraft Dinner since you’ll also be getting the other components of the dish to fill up your plate.
Also keep in mind that you can easily reduce the totat fat content of the Kraft Dinner itself by adding a bit more milk and a little bit less butter. This doesn’t impact the taste much but will really change the nutritional profile.
So, keep these three ideas in mind. Having some fun with creative ideas while on your diet program will definitely increase the chances you stick with it long term and that is what will get you the lasting results you’re going for.
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I mix chicken chunks into the mac and cheese, use skim milk and sub Olive Oil for the margarine. It doesn’t taste quite as good, but it definitely satisfies the craving.
I’ve never thought of subing in olive oil for the butter – fantastic idea Dan. Thanks for sharing!