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How to Lose Weight on a Peanut Butter Diet

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If you love peanut butter, then you'll enjoy the Peanut Butter Diet created by Holly McCord. It involves healthy eating habits that help you lose the extra weight that you have been trying to get rid of. The Peanut Butter Diet is a diet that many people are able to follow for a long time.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
  1. Step 1

    Eat approximately 4 to 6 tablespoons of peanut butter each day. Peanut butter is a delicious and healthy food that can provide the dieter with healthy fats and fulfill protein requirements.

  2. Step 2

    Limit the peanut butter to lunch and snack times. For the Peanut Butter Diet, you eat items like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and apples with peanut butter. However, at dinnertime, you should keep your meals peanut butter free.

  3. Step 3

    Add healthy foods to your diet. Peanut Butter Diet meal plans suggest foods like mixed salad greens, kidney beans, apricots, fat free milk and peanut butter granola bars.

  4. Step 4

    Control your portion sizes. Smaller portions of healthy foods will help you follow the recommended daily caloric intake of 1,500 calories for women and 2,200 for men.

  5. Step 5

    Exercise often. An exercise program helps you lose even more weight on the Peanut Butter Diet. Half an hour of aerobics several times of week is recommended.

Tips & Warnings
  • Studies have shown that people on the Peanut Butter Diet have a lower risk of developing heart disease.
  • Dairy is limited on the Peanut Butter Diet. To meet your body's calcium requirements, a daily supplement is recommended.

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