Sport Fat burn / Lean Cuisine/Smart Ones once a day?

[iipadfoot]

Here's my situation. I'm not so much worried about "losing weight", because whatever I lose in fat I expect to gain back some in muscle anyway. My main concern is basically just starting to eat a little healthier, and lose my gut. Right now, I don't even eat breakfast. I'm just never hungry in the morning, and too lazy to make anything. I realize that's kind of how you jumpstart your metabolism for the day though, and I plan to change that. What I want to start doing is this..

Breakfast - 4 cups of a Green Smoothie
Snack - Yogurt with some fruit
Lunch - Turkey sandwich on whole grain bread
Dinner - one Lean Cuisine/Smart One meal

I work 2 jobs. So I REALLY don't have time to "cook" a meal for dinner. I'll basically wake up, make the smoothie, throw together a sandwich, grab a yogurt or two, grab a lean cuisine from the freezer and leave the house, not coming back til around 11 at night. My main form of "exercise" is basically just walking at work. On average I take around 27,000 steps throughout the day, and then some sit-ups when I get home before I go to sleep.

I know frozen meals like that are considered high in sodium and a lot of people say they don't help with weight loss anyway. But is eating one a day, when there's not too much sodium throughout the rest of the day in what I showed above, really that bad? Right now I eat 2 turkey sandwiches, and that's it. No real "dinner", basically just an oversized lunch. Would it be better to just keep going with the 2 sandwiches, or replace one with a frozen meal. I would think even though it's higher in sodium, I would get more of the nutrients I need out of the full meal for dinner instead of just another sandwich.

 

[PLB_old]

If you want to have those meals, just do your homework. Read the labels and find the ones with the least sodium and other additives. Is it possible for you to make up a large portion of a dish the day before your work week starts, then freeze individual portions to take with you to work? This way you know exactly what is going into the food that you're eating and you can put more veggies and protein into them.... I find that many of those meals are heavy on the simple carbs and sauces, and very low on the veggies and protein.

 

[xtonymarsx]

I have to agree with PLB on this one. Most pre-made or frozen meals go heavy on carbs and sauces to make up for their lack of flavor and content. And, although they may be like 200-300 kcal meals (which is about right if you are eating 6 meals a day), that doesn't mean they are anywhere near nutritious enough to be considered "healthy".

Also, it's hard to post to this because there is no other background information about you. You have 2 jobs. Do they involve manual labor? Are they desk jobs? Things like this help out a lot when it comes to determining the number of calories you should be eating daily. Also, your level of fitness and height/weight, and fitness goals help out a lot too. Just FYI