Healthy Meal Ideas for Weight Loss

Eat every 2-3 hours. 5-6 meals a day.

Breakfast: Milk/Banana/Fruits/Egg Whites/Boiled Egg
Snack: Fruits/Veggies
Lunch: Chicken thighs cooked in Garlic, sour cream, chopped coriander/steamed broccoli/steamed cauliflower/shredded cheese
Snack: Cheese sticks/carrots/veggies/fruits
Dinner: Steamed fish/Asparagus/Omelette with shredded cabbage+fish+mustard sauce
Protein Shake: 0.5 cups milk+frozen yogurt+frozen mangoes+protein powder

Body Building

Here are some great recipes from this site.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/gredeker2.htm

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/rotw26.htm

Light Fish Recipes

I've been trying to get some good fish recipes. Most fish fillet recipes ask to be grilled in the oven where the edges of the fillet get painfully dry and the middle is sadly soggy.
The only option is to keep all of it consistently soggy by wrapping it in tin foil for the duration of the cooking.

However, this recipe just gave me some ideas:
http://blog.bodybuilding.com/nikki01198/2011/08/17/recipe_for_delicious_tilapia/

It won't matter how the fish is cooked if the topping or salsa on top is delicious. I have cilantro, lime juice, red onions and tomatoes at home. I might just chop everything up, sprinkle the lime juice and salt, mix and top on the "grilled" fish. Of course, serve with asparagus or another vegetable on the side. Since I'm going to substitute the rice with complex carbohydrates, I might splurge and pan fry the fillet with 1 - 2 tsp of oil.

Here's another promising one if you have a little bit of orange juice in the house (which I do at this time):
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/fitexpert9.htm

I'll be substituting white fish for the salmon. I'll also be skipping a bunch of ingredients I don't actually have.

Traveling for Work: Eating Healthy

I've been traveling heavily for work recently, and in 6 short weeks I've realized that eating out and eating sandwiches is not going to work for me. I'm in my early 30s and realized in my late 20s that eating food from restaurants and even eating prepared food from grocery stores wreaks havoc with my digestion. I feel bloated and sluggish, I have low energy, there are issues of a gaseous nature that I won't divulge too much... And don't solve your digestion problems by popping a TUMS in your mouth. Do yourself and your longevity a favour and eat healthy. Solve the problem at the root... don't treat the symptoms. I know someone that has a TUMS tablet with his meals every single day... what does he eat you wonder? 100% restaurant food. Every meal is cooked outside his house.

While I just passed that judgement, it's really hard to not do that if your lifestyle doesn't support healthy cooking and healthy eating. But, guys, you make your lifestyle! Don't give yourself lame excuses. You really can spend 20 minutes cooking something simple... it won't taste as good as hot crunchy onion rings plated in front of you... but you won't have heart burn and you won't gain weight every day either.

Anyway, I'm done with my preaching. There are a few key items that I'm battling: I don't have a microwave in the room, I don't have a kettle or a coffee maker. However there are many grocery stores around the hotel. Another criteria is I'm not going to carry around 350ml bottles of condiments everywhere. So flavouring has to be really simple but good. SO Here's what I'm planning on doing. I have purchased a rice cooker. I'm going to start experimenting cooking MEALS with said rice cooker and see what happens.

Things I plan on experimenting with:
1. Rice with vegetables and shrimp
2. Potatoes and chicken with vegetables (don't know if I'll do a soup or a steamed dish)
3. Maybe pasta with chicken or ground beef
4. Steamed veggies and chicken or meat

One idea: Steam veggies in rice cooker and eat with rotisserie chicken. For warming up leftover chicken, maybe I can throw it in the rice cooker with more veggies.

Hmm... I'll have to try it out.

Condiments:
1. Soy sauce packets from Chinese fast food joints
2. Salt/pepper from fast food joints
3. Packets of pickles I discovered at an Indian take out place.
4. Ketchup? (I can't see myself putting ketchup on anything really)
5. Chilli sauce from Chinese fast food joints

I will post more when I actually cook something.

Here is a site with a couple of links that aren't bad:
http://frugaldoesabodygood.blogspot.com/2006/06/rice-cooker-one-pot-meals.html

I'm seeing a pattern with the dishes.... mostly rice. But why does it have to be only rice? I'm going to experiment with some other items and update.