The 1200 Calorie Diet Plans have gained an increasing popular interest in our market in the past decades. A lot of books on this subject with corresponding recipes and daily menus have come out because of the increasing number of people who want to lose weight and avoid the health risks associated with obesity.

It is not easy to create a caloric deficit using this diet plan because people can’t stand the sudden decrease of carbohydrate intake. Some withdraw from the diet after just a week and sometimes as early as 4 days. It is not easy. So if you are thinking of going on a 1200 calorie diet plan, here is a sample menu so you could test it first if you will be able to stand it for a long period of time.

One Day 1200 Calorie Meal Plan

Breakfast Small glass grapefruit juice 1/2 cup oatmeal 1 glass skim milk 1 whole wheat toast 1 teaspoon jam coffee or tea

Lunch Vegetable chow mien with 2oz chicken or diced lean beef 1/4 cup rice 1/4 cupFresh pinapple chunks 1 glass buttermilk

Dinner 2 oz beef cup Italian noodles Cauliflower Lettuce with low fat dressing 2 halves pears Tea or coffee Skim milk

To make a low-calorie Chow mein, dice the lean beef or chicken, 1/4 cup peas, 1/4 cup bean sprouts, 1/2 cup celery, 1 small minced onion. If you can do away with a 1/4 cup soy sauce the better. Steam the peas, bean sprouts, celery. You can also boil the vegetables with 1/4 cup of water if a steamer is unavailable but steaming the veggies will preserve more of the nutrients that you would need instead of boiling them. Mix the vegetables and meat and serve on steamed rice. This alone is already a total of 410 calories of your 1200 caloried diet plan.

The problem with this kind of diet plan is people who try it do not last a week and go on food binges because they feel deprived of food and they feel the deprivation as early as the third day. There are diet plans today that has made ground breaking results for dieters who follow their new approach on dieting like shifting calories.