Mom Lost 70 Pounds Thanks to These 6 Daily Plant-Based Meals

Do you want to lose 40 pounds in 3 months? Consider starting with a diet overhaul. Ciara Foster, AKA Ciara Honey Fit, is a social media influencer who creates a lot of wellness and weight loss content on her YouTube channel. “Today I am going to do a much, much requested and overdue video, how I lost 40 pounds in three months. I get this question so much,” she says. Here are the simple changes she made to burn fat fast.

Changing Her Diet Was Key to Her Weight Loss

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Ciara reveals that she gained 80 pounds as a result of dealing with medical issues. “One of the biggest things that I did to lose 40 pounds in three months was to change my diet. I've eaten healthy for a while, but I got to a point where I was just so frustrated with my health and with the weight gain that I got to a point where it just seemed like I didn't even care as much anymore,” she says at the start of the clip.

She Met with a Nutritionist

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“The first thing I did was to see a nutritionist. That nutritionist also was a doctor,” Ciara says. “She helped to create a meal plan for me that was very specific to what my body needed.” She said it is important to have a “specified meal plan for you that will help you to lose weight.”

“My meal plan consists of a balance of protein, carbs, and fats, with protein being my highest amount of nutrition that I take in with some fats and some carbs,” Ciara says, revealing that she focuses and organizes her meals around this. “That's the basis and the foundation of my diet and nutrition.”

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Breakfast: Eggs, Turkey Bacon, Low Carb Tortillas, Almond Butter

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For breakfast, she has eggs, turkey bacon, low-carb tortillas, “and I'll put almond butter in them,” Ciara says. “So I've got my protein, starch, and my fat.”

Lunch: Salads

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For lunch, she has “Kardashian salad,” Ciara reveals, “because it reminds me so much of those big old salads that the Kardashians eat with two boiled eggs. Just because I'm not huge on meat, I'll eat mostly fish and seafood, but I really don't eat much like poultry or pork or beef. And I'll drizzle a little bit of salad dressing on it for my fat. And then I'll also have a starch, which lately I've been having Pirate’s Booty. I'm gonna start getting away from that and leaning more towards sweet potato and more like healthy starches instead of processed.”

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Dinner: Protein and Veggies

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“For dinner, I like to have protein and veggies,” Ciara continues. “My favorite right now is salmon and Brussels sprouts. I love Brussels sprouts and I love salmon. I make my own salmon. I just season it up really well, throw it in the oven, and it's actually really easy.”

She Added Cheat Days…

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“One big thing that really helped me with my diet was that I used Monday through Friday pretty much eat healthy, and then Saturday and Sunday were like my cheat days,” she says. “What I started doing was narrowing myself down to one cheat meal per week. Really just being more strict about my weekends. That really can make a difference in the long run in terms of how quickly you're able to lose weight,” Ciara says.

And if you wanna lose weight quickly and drop the weight fast, you really, really have to limit those cheat days and those cheat meals. And reducing my cheat meals or cheat days to one cheat meal helped me lose the weight quicker,” Ciara says.

Eliminating Alcohol

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“Something else that helped me to lose 40 pounds in three months was eliminating alcohol,” she says. “It was really, really hard for me because I am a wine person. Drinking is a social thing that affects the way that I interact with people at events that I tend not to and things like that. But if you want to lose weight quickly and drop the weight fast, then I definitely recommend eliminating or trying to cut down on your alcohol intake.” She set a goal for herself of two weeks, then a month, and then another month, and “ended up going the full three months without drinking.”

Meal Prepping

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“Meal prepping was very, very integral in me losing 40 pounds in three months,” Ciara says. This helped her eliminate fast food from her diet and eating out. “I like to meal prep at the beginning of the week, and that way, I have all my meals for the week or a good portion of them, and it just eliminates that factor of always eating out or eating fast food or eating things that are not good for me,” she explains.

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Meal Prepping

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“Even things such as salads at fast food places can have high calories and tons of sodium in them. Even just cooking at home can be a really good way to help you accelerate your weight loss.”

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Are you trying to lose weight on a plant-based diet? One weight loss warrior claims to have the secret recipe. Stasia is a wellness enthusiast who shares her plant-based tactics for losing weight. In a recent viral YouTube video, she reveals the three ingredients that were her secret weapon for dropping pounds without starving herself. “I recently lost 60 pounds following a whole food plant-based diet,” she says in the video. “I have struggled for many, many years to lose weight, even following a plant-based diet. So it wasn't until recently that I made a few changes, and I finally got it together, and I'm 60 pounds down at this point,” she says. She continues to explain that she is going to reveal “the easiest, most simple weight loss dinner that I personally recommend eating,” she says.

She Eats This Meal on Repeat

“I do know firsthand what it's like to struggle with weight as I have my entire life. And I also know what it's like to feel completely overwhelmed with all the different food choices out there. It's exhausting and completely frustrating when you're honestly trying your hardest,” she says in her post. “I'm going to be showing you the most simple weight loss dinner that you can easily prepare. You can eat it on repeat, and I'm going to tell you exactly why you should be eating these foods.”

It Is the “Easiest” Meal

“I really enjoy eating delicious food. I'm a huge advocate that we should really enjoy the food that we're eating, not just choking something down in the name of weight loss. But with that being said, sometimes there are those days that I'm just not really in the mood to cook, or maybe I'm just too hungry to be, you know, spending too much time preparing something. And when that is the case, this is basically my easiest meal that I default to all the time,” she continues.

You Only Need Three Ingredients, Starting with a Sweet or White Potato

“To make this super easy weight loss dinner, you will only need three core ingredients. The first one is that you're going to need a potato. Now, this can be a regular potato, or it can be a sweet potato–totally up to you. Personally, I love sweet potatoes, but I also love a good old regular potato as well. So honestly, it really doesn't matter,” she says.

Next, You Need ½ Cup Beans

“The second thing you're going to need is any type of beans. So, for me, I personally love making my beans from scratch because they are literally as soft as butter, so, so, so much better than the canned beans. I really just can't even do canned beans anymore now that I've been making them on my own. So I make them in an Instant Pot, and oh my gosh, they turn out perfect every single time,” she says.

The Third Ingredient Is a Non-Starchy Veggie

The third thing that you're going to need is some type of non-starchy veggie. “Again, it can be whichever one you want. So you could do zucchini noodles, which I love. You can do broccoli; I love that as well. Cauliflower, eggplant, any type of non-starchy veggie that you'd like, whatever floats your boat, you just need some type of non-starchy vegetable,” she says.

The Potato Will Keep You Satiated

Why do you need these three things to make the easy, perfect dinner? “The potato is actually known to be the most satiating food in the world. So that means that there is no other food that's going to leave you feeling as satisfied getting up from the dinner table. So potatoes just have that X factor. You're just going to get up from the table feeling like you know you just ate some really good food.”

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Beans Will Keep You Full

Why beans? “Beans have actually been a huge part of my weight loss journey. I actually prefer beans even over potatoes when it comes to keeping me full. So I found that potatoes were the most satisfying in terms of having that comfort food and just feeling like, ‘Hmm, that was really delicious, and I feel really good as soon as I'm done eating.’ But that beans actually carried me a lot longer than even potatoes. So in terms of keeping me full, I would say that beans come before even potatoes.”

Veggies Are Low-calorie

Lastly, why the non-starchy vegetable? “Non-starchy veggies are only about 100 calories per pound. A pound of vegetables is quite a bit of food. So, 100 calories for a pound is incredible. So we use our non-starchy vegetables to fill us up,” she says, noting that they will be “the cherry on top to the meal and make sure that it just tops us off with foods that are super low in calories, but that is going to make us feel like we're nice and full,” she says. “Not to mention, of course, all the nutrition that comes along with eating our vegetables.”

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Whip This Meal Up When You Are Busy

“Hands down, if you ever find yourself in a situation again where you really just don't know what to eat, then just remember those three things to follow, and then you can easily whip yourself up a plate in no time. So potato, beans and a non-starchy veggie are the three things you can build the most epic simple weight loss dinner,” she says.

Final Note: Don’t Overcomplicate Diet

“It doesn't always have to be super complicated. Simple works wonders as well. So, next time you're feeling a little bit lost, just stick to those three things, and you're going to be golden,” she concludes. And if you enjoyed this article, take advantage of these15 Quick Ways to Lose Body Fat Percentage in a Week.