Okay, so my trainer suggested I do this little program to jump start weight loss. It drastically changes my diet. I.E. No bread, pasta,potatoes,rice,cereal for a week, and next week you get potatoes back, but only sweet potatoes...

anyway I eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast, I eat a sandwich in between my classes for lunch (just plain turkey), and apple for a snack, dinner of chicken grilled and brown rice (usually). Well, I don't have time in the mornings to cook me up some eggs for breakfast, and I have no idea what I can eat while walking between my classes besides soup, but I don't have time to make homeade soup and the regular stuff normally has pasta or isn't good at all for me.

Any suggestions on what I should do?

"Jump start" weight loss?

As long as you are following the guidelines of calories in and calories out, a long with routine exercise and some strength training, you will lose weight. HERE is a link to a BMR calculator. Input your stats. The number that it gives you is the required calories you need to maintain your weight if you stayed in bed all day. But, if you're like 99% of people, you don't stay in bed all day.

Here is the Harris Benedict formula:

So basically, take the BMR that you got, and multiply it by the number that BEST REFLECTS your lifestyle. For example, if your BMR was 1700, and you are moderately active, multiply 1700 by 1.55 = 2,635 calories in order to maintain your weight.

A good idea is to subtract 500 calories from your maintience weight. This will give you a weight loss of 1 pound per week. So if that were my, I would eat 2100 calories and lose a pounder a week.

Sounds simple, and thank goodness, because it is. Seriously, if I was forced to not eat bread and cereal, I would strangle myself.

suggestion as to what you should do

easy

find a new trainer..

Saw mal's post as I was about to post this. I wouldn't trust that trainer's advice on food either.

Just before I joined here a dietician suggested I jump start my weight loss with an 1100 calorie a day diet. It had carbs but they were rather limited. I decided that if I needed more help from a dietician I would find a new one.

I couldn't believe she hadn't heard me telling her about all the times I had started losing weight and been very "successful" for a few days or a few weeks and then fallen in a massive hole, regained the weight and added some on.

I think trying to lose weight without an adequate plan for how you will satisfy your feelings of hunger and give your body all the nourishment it needs is dangerous in the sense that it makes you more likely to fail in the long term.

If you still decide to try to follow your trainer's advice I wish you well. People manage to lose weight in many different ways, despite the definite downside to attempting that suggestion.

As far as speedy protein in the morning goes, I daresay you could crack an egg and a splash of vanilla into milk, beat it with a fork, and top it with some nutmeg, as fast as pouring cereal and milk. (I would have thought you could turn your cooktop on to high, crack an egg or two into a flat fry pan and cook them very fast while you stirred and swirled them for 1-2 minutes, also - maybe while toasting some wholegrain bread to sit them on, but I guess you might have some awkward slow electric cook top - and there's a perception thing to consider too. ) You could try a tin of sardines or tuna? You could boil a few days worth of eggs at once in the evening (5 minutes), plunge them into cold water afterwards to make them easy to peel later, then just grab one per morning. You could slice off a piece of low-fat cheese and eat it. Or scoop some peanut butter with a knife and squash it along a celery stick.

I suppose you could wrap your turkey in lettuce instead of bread, or grill some eggplant and put it in between eggplant slices, or just think of eating protein and veges that aren't stuck together between classes.

There's really no reason not to add the extra protein and veges and keep your healthy carbs.

Good luck!

I don't agree with your trainer. Once you start introducing them back into your diet, your weight will come back.

My experience is eat whole grain carbs (brown rice, wheat flour, etc.) in moderation. Keep your blood sugars level.

Forget jump starting. Your body will know what to do w/o 'tricking' it.

yep. fire that trainer.

I'd agree about finding a new trainer. But if you want to "jump-start" your breakfast, I'd suggest a smoothie with some protein powder in it or maybe oatmeal cooked with skim milk.

As for lunch, the lettuce-wrap suggestion sounds pretty good?

PF Changs, a fairly decent chinese restaurant chain, has on their appetizer menu a chicken lettuce wrap -that's outstanding... makes you really appreciate lettuce