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7 day weight loss challenge and healthy meal plan for weight loss including healthy meal ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

Healthy Meal Plan For Weight Loss | 7-Day Challenge #2

If you have some frozen shrimp and lots of summer vegetables sitting at home, you have to try this delicious easy healthy salad recipe for weight loss! It's a super fresh arugula avocado and shrimp salad! So tasty, perfect for dinner or lunch during summer or any time of year, really!

Super Fresh Arugula Avocado Shrimp Salad For Weight Loss

You need to try this healthy cherry crumble with oats! A gluten-free and vegan oatmeal crumble recipe that is nourishing enough to be a healthy breakfast, but also provides just enough sweetness to be your go-to cherry dessert.

Healthy Cherry Crumble With Oats (Healthy Breakfast Or Dessert)

Healthy Meal Plan For Weight Loss | 7-Day Challenge #2

Last updated on June 30th, 2022 at 09:45 am

New month, new challenge! Start fresh and join the 7-day challenge to lose some weight and feel amazing! This is a one-week healthy meal plan for weight loss with delicious easy meal ideas and a grocery list included. The plan includes healthy recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as some snack options.

7 day weight loss challenge and healthy meal plan for weight loss including healthy meal ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

Now it’s a thing, it’s a tradition! Here’s to the second month this year I’m making a clean eating challenge and sharing a healthy meal plan.


Losing Weight Without Exercise Or Counting Calories

The challenge this month is to be eating lower carb after 2pm for 7 days. This method has served me very well in the past, whenever I needed to lose a few pounds without counting calories, overthinking and exercising all the time.

It’s a natural way to reduce your caloric intake so that your body can lose fat easier.

Recap On The Last Clean Eating Challenge

The last challenge became very popular very quickly, I guess we’re all on the same page: we know resolutions aren’t over after January and we all need a little bit of a reset and challenge every month.

For me, the first clean eating challenge definitely made me more conscious of what and how much I’m putting into my body. I still didn’t eat extremely healthy, but I felt good about it. I mean, I was invited to some events and birthdays and I can’t say no to a piece of cake because I’m doing a challenge.

The biggest goal for me was to snack less and to really let myself feel hungry before I eat. And I achieved that goal. It involved lots of water, but already by day 2, I felt like I have this snacking under control. I started having 2 real meals that were really healthy and indulged in small desserts here and had one smoothie a day (lately I’m not much of a breakfast eater).

This Challenge & Diet Plan For Weight Loss

For this month’s challenge, we’re going to try something a little different.

We’ll be again eating as healthy as possible, but also trying to eat lower carb after 2 pm. Look, it doesn’t mean keto, but just fewer carbs.

So if you’re vegan, don’t make yourself crazy trying to make this happen, strive to make your meals a little bit lower carb. Maybe instead of 1 cup quinoa, you use 1/2 cup quinoa and add more avocado, vegetables or nuts.

Also if you cheat, cheat. Life happens. Try not to make a big drama about it because that can lead to overeating. If you’re craving something, have it and promise yourself you’ll be okay with it, let go of the guilt. Then do better the next meal.


Why Eating This Way Works For Weight Loss

There are a few theories on why eating fewer carbs in the afternoon might work. One is that we tend to be less active during the evening, so it gets harder to burn off the carbs if you eat them at 8 pm which might lead to water retention and in the end those carbs stored as fat.

To be honest with you, I am not sure this is the truth, I haven’t found any good paper on this, although it does make sense, but who knows really?

As I said, I have seen it work for me 4 years ago, my stomach was flat in the morning which never happened before.

I personally think that when you consciously limit your carbohydrate, fat or overall calorie intake at a certain time of the day, the thing that happens is that you end up eating less OVERALL. And with me, I know I eat a lot of carbs on a regular day. I like my bread, I like my pasta and I would have them all on the same day. If I cut out one of these, I know I’ll end up eating less overall and my body will be able to handle the carbs coming in better.

Why this works might be 1/ preventing insulin spikes and keeping your blood sugar stable, 2/ the water retention, 3/ it could also be our circadian rhythm. Whatever it is, it works. This is simply my observation, experience and my thoughts.


Healthy Meal Plan Grocery List

If you do want to try this clean eating meal plan and challenge, you can get the grocery list here.


After The One Week

If you enjoy this one week challenge and want to keep eating healthy, but would also love to try some more healthy recipes, check out my Clean Eating Recipe Binder!

It’s a digital download with everything you need to start and live a healthy lifestyle – like cooking healthy, tips to stay organized in the kitchen, printables to help you track your habits, to create a meal plan and a fillable recipe card to help you create your own recipe binder. When it comes to keeping a healthy diet, it’s great to have a recipe binder with your favorite healthy recipes and meal ideas that you can just go to whenever you’re feeling in a cooking rut. Stay organized, stay motivated. If you want to check out the clean eating recipe binder, you can do so here. Make sure to use the code NTB20 for 20% off.

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Tasty Clean Eating Recipes

Make these flourless oatmeal apple muffins for the week ahead, they're a fantastic healthy snack or meal prep breakfast idea! Gluten-free and dairy-free recipe that is super tasty and perfect for clean eating too!

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This 15-minute shrimp and zucchini in garlic tomato sauce recipe is a fast and easy healthy dinner idea with minimal clean-up. It's seriously the most delicious quick one-pan shrimp recipe that you can make with super simple ingredients. For a full dinner, serve with some salad and bread on the side

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Easy avocado black bean salad without corn is a great vegan lunch idea or a quick side dish! You can make this gluten-free vegan salad using canned black beans, herbs, avocado, tomatoes and roasted red peppers. It takes around 10 minutes!

Avocado Black Bean Salad Without Corn | Easy Black Bean Recipe

This is the best blueberry smoothie made with 3 healthy ingredients: blueberries, banana and some cashews. This vegan blueberry banana smoothie is gluten free, dairy free and paleo.

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7-Day Vegan Meal Plan & Challenge

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15-Minute egg roll in a bowl with chicken! This easy and healthy egg roll recipe is perfect for a weeknight dinner. It's gluten-free, low carb and easy to make paleo! #dinner #healthy #recipe

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Anti-Inflammatory Diet And Recipes

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Mediterranean Diet

If you’re on a mission to find some healthy dinner ideas, you’ve just found a healthy vegan dinner recipe that you’ll want to make every week. This is a delicious healthy vegan lentil bowls recipe and it’s gonna become one of your go-to easy lentil recipes. High in protein and fiber, these gluten free bowls are satisfying and super easy to make, even if you’ve never made lentils before.

Healthy Vegan Lentil Bowls Recipe

Spicy chickpeas! Ready in 5 minutes this easy chickpea recipe is made with canned chickpeas, is gluten free vegan and will be great for weekly vegan meal prep!

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A super easy roasted vegetable recipe for spicy roasted cauliflower, sweet potatoes and a sad little red pepper. This healthy side dish recipe is great for meal prep, vegan, gluten free and paleo.

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Easy low-carb vegan hummus recipe with zucchini and walnuts! A simple and tasty healthy side dish recipe that will make your dinner so much better! Use as a side dish, snack, in Buddha bowls or wraps! | www.beautybites.org

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7 day weight loss challenge and healthy meal plan for weight loss including healthy meal ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

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