How to Prepare Meals Using the Flat Belly Diet

The Flat Belly Diet is a plan that allows you to eat some foods with healthy modifications such as adding or subtracting an ingredient. The diet originated in the pages of "Prevention" magazine before it became a book. To succeed on the diet, you need to learn what foods are considered healthy or unhealthy before preparing meals, and learn to create your meal plan before starting your diet.

Things You'll Need

• Nutritionist
• High-fat foods
• Fruits and vegetables

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Instructions

• 1

  Understand what foods contain the right amount of monounsaturated fats (MUFAs) that the Flat Belly Diet allows. There are five categories to create your meal plan under, including oils, chocolate and nuts and seeds. There are also categories for olives and avocados. Make a list of foods you eat to see which ones fit in each category.

• 2

  Talk with a nutritionist before creating your Flat Belly Diet meal plan. Ask about any health complications you might experience because the dietary plan focuses on eating on high-fat foods. Check to see if your nutritionist has any suggestions about which foods you should focus eating on during the 32-day program.

• 3

  Be creative in your meal planning for the 32 days; your plan keeps you invested in successfully completing the diet. Put together foods that you normally wouldn't combine in your lunch or dinner--for example, add peaches to a spinach salad. The combination sounds unlikely, but it can be effective for creative diet planners.

• 4

  Balance your meals between high-fat foods and a healthy mix of fruits and vegetables. For lunch, eat a chicken salad with handful of almonds and mandarin oranges. As a dinner option, you could have spaghetti with shrimp and snow peas. Watch what you eat, but also eat foods that you love. The diet is more successful when you like what you eat.

• 5

  Start the diet program by doing the program's 4-day anti-bloat jump start. This portion allows you to eliminate gas, excess fluid and heavy solids. For those 4 days, remove excess carbohydrates, spicy and fried foods and alcohol from your diet. After 4 days, you can start eating the foods off your 28-day meal plan.