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Look through the 6 Week Body Makeover recipes and you will notice that the majority of the foods listed are foods that you already eat in your everyday life. This is great because you don’t have to substitute a meal for a gross tasting shake or boring, small portioned, micro-wave dinner.

The important factor in reducing calorie intake while cooking is learning how to cook without oil and fat. Most people use large amounts of oil to make food not stick the frying pan when cooking meats and vegetables. Cooking oil is a waste of calories and should be avoided when on the meal plan.

You can buy a good non-stick pan so that you can eliminate all the fat from your cooking. Non-stick pans are great because the food virtually slips off the pan once you’re done cooking. Also, the clean-up of nonstick pans is easy, which is a great plus when you’re cooking for yourself (or for others).

The Michael Thurmond diet consists of eating egg whites for breakfast (you can also eat different proteins for breakfast if you want). Cooking egg whites is a snap when using a nonstick pan. Do not use oil when cooking eggs as you do not want to add empty calories to your meals. This inversely affects your whole meal plan. Make sure that the pan is very hot before adding the eggs, that way the eggs will fry fast and will not stick to the pan.

Vegetable stock is a great way to cook meat and add flavor to your chicken and fish. Make sure to get low sodium or no sodium chicken stock. White wine is also a good cooking agent as the liquid ads flavor to your meal. The alcohol will burn out during the process of cooking and will reduce the amount of calories in the white wine.