In an effort to start living healthy, I decided to eat strictly low-carb meals. While commendable, it should be backed up by knowing what foods to eat and when to eat them. In general, it’s best to eat small meals spread out over five or six times a day. Most importantly, make sure the meals are made with low-carb meal recipes.

We talked about the meal part, but how exactly do you get a list of recipes for those meals? Check local bookstores for low-carb recipes or go online to search for low-carb recipes. You’ll want to make a list of recipes for yourself and try to get a range of recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and low-carb snacks. So you won’t be stuck eating the same meal over and over again. As they say, variety is the spice of life and it is always good to have many food variations. This also gives you more time to prepare the meal.

What you can also do is stock up on your own food, and that is of course made using low carb meal recipes. You can plan it over the weekend and make enough portions to last you all week. It’s always good when you can easily eat the lunch you made in a container at home, instead of going to a restaurant and eating unhealthy foods. By preparing meals at home, the healthy food you prepared is out of reach.

One of the advantages of preparing your meals in advance is that you will also stop giving in to unhealthy cravings. After working hard at the office all day, the last thing you want to do after you come home is worry about what to cook and eat. Well, now you can change that habit from phoning your pizza order to hitting the reheat button in your microwave, with your prepared food inside. There is not a minute prep time, as this was done in advance. Your meal will be ready in a minute or two.

Apart from eating healthy using low carb meal recipes, try to do regular exercises in order to lose weight faster. If you are constantly doing these two together, then getting that healthy slim figure is just a matter of time.