Best Diet Dinner

When it comes to losing weight, the most effective approach is to combine more exercise with a healthier diet. Forget the Atkins Diet, the F Plan, the Maple Syrup and all of those things. Ultimately, you need to eat less calories - around 500 per day to lose 1lb a week.
Talking to most people though, the thing they struggle with most is what to eat at dinner. It's a time when you're tired, your hungry and you end up overeating, either by nibbling when you're cooking or even eating a mini-meal before you've even got to the dinner table.
The best way of avoiding this is to follow these simple rules:
1) Try and plan what you're going to eat the morning before and have the ingredients ready at home so you're not tempted to grab something unhealthy on the way home.
2) Plan to make something simple that will only take 20mins.
3) Most importantly, eat something that don't make you feel like you're on a diet. Instead of thinking that you're depriving yourself by cutting out food, change the way you cook and add spices and herbs. That way, you're adding food not taking away.

I always tend to opt for fish dishes as they're full of protein, which makes you feel fuller for longer and best of all, fish is so incredibly low in calories. Tonight, I made Seabass with clams and mussels in a spicy tomato broth - and that one fillet of fish only contains around 200 calories. It's delicious..


Sea bass with Clams and Mussel Stew

Ingredients

Sea bass fillet
Salt and pepper to season
1/2 lemon, squeezed

Wrap fish in tin foil with squeeze of lemon and place in oven at 200 degrees.It should take around 15mins but you'll know when it's ready once it loses it's translucence and you can see the fish can fall away in big juicy flakes.

The Broth
Garlic
Chilli
Plum tomatoes
1tsp olive oil
Lemon juice
Seafood

Saute the tomatoes, garlic and chilli in the oil and lemon and then turn down on a low heat. keep adding a bit of water as needed until the tomatoes break down into a rich sauce. Add seasoning if needed and plenty more lemon juice. Add mussels and cockles (cleaned and debearded) and put lid on pan. Leave for 2-5mins until the shells open. Discard any that haven't opened and serve the rest.

Watch out next week as I will be posting a new core exercise to do every day.