Jenny Craig Diet Plan

This successful diet concentrates on Food, Body and Mind.

When you join the Jenny Craig programme you are allocated a personal coach, and a personal diet plan is tailored to your lifestyle.

The diet involves using Jenny Craig portion controlled ready prepared meals and snacks, which are delivered to your home. There is also help and advice with getting more active and exercising regularly. You will have weekly contact with your personal coach to help with food advice and motivation.

Actress, Carrie Fisher, reportedly lost 30 pounds in just 18 weeks on the Jenny Craig diet and eventually managed to drop 50 pounds She has now become a national spokeswoman for the diet company. She also received psychiatric help with her diet and alcohol addiction, as well as following the Jenny Craig diet plan. A year on, the 55-year-old actress, has maintained her new figure.

Singer Mariah Carey is now the new spokeswoman for the Jenny Craig diet. She has successfully lost the 30 pounds of weight she gained during her pregnancy by following the Jenny Craig weight-loss programme. Her favourite diet food was the soup.

How does the diet work?

Once you join the Jenny Craig programme a personal Weight Management Coach will create a plan tailored to your needs and lifestyle. You will learn portion control and nutritional balance, and receive advice on increasing your activity.

You can choose to eat Jenny Craig meals and one snack each day – you can add certain fresh fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products to supplement these meals.

The Jenny Craig food is home delivered, which saves you worrying about shopping and preparing a nutritious and healthy meal every day that is also calorie controlled.

There are weekly calls with your coach to help you boost your motivation, gain tips and diet advice.

What foods does the Jenny Craig diet suggest?

A days eating on the Jenny Craig diet might look like this:

Breakfast

• Muesli with raisins and hazelnuts and semi-skimmed milk and a portion of fruit or
• Baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and onions with a slice of wholemeal toast or
• Porridge with a portion of fruit

Lunch

• Carrot and coriander soup with 1 brown roll and salad or
• Bacon and mushroom risotto with salad or
• Pasta spirals in cheese sauce with tuna and a salad

Dinner

• Beef lasagne or
• Prawn Korma with rice or
• Roast chicken with mashed potato

Snacks

• Wholegrain cereal bars or
• Chocolate wafer or biscuit or
• Potato bites - Chilli, Ready salted or Sour cream and onion or
• 1 low fat yoghurt or
• 1 portion of nuts or
• 1oz half fat Cheddar and 3 rye crispbreads

  3 servings per day of fruits: 1/2 cup: Melon, Grapefruit or Strawberries

  Unlimited

  Non starchy vegetables, Mineral or Carbonated Water, Soda Water, Diet Drinks, Diet Tonic, No Added Sugar Squash, Tea, Coffee, Fruit and Herbal Tea, Sugar-Free Chewing Gum, Sugar-Free Mints

Advantages of the Jenny Craig diet

Not just a diet the Jenny Craig programme works to help clients change lifestyle and bad eating habits.

Lots of weekly support from personal coach and a 24/7 telephone line provides support.

Able to eat out as your lifestyle is incorporated into your eating plan.

Vegetarian options.

Plenty of variety in food.

The eating plan limits sodium, added sugars and saturated fats.

Disadvantages

Expense in joining the programme and purchasing the ready meals and snacks.

Dieters will eventually have to make the transition from eating prepared packaged food to their own healthy menu planning and meal preparation.

More info: www.jennycraig.co.uk

Consult your doctor or medical professional before beginning any diet or exercise plan.