Up at the crack of dawn, the kids need their lunch boxes packed and to say that you’re rushed off your feet is an understatement. A split-second timed coffee doesn’t go amiss and a cereal bar sits nicely if your jacket pocket as you race to another hectic morning of meetings, subtle flirting and steamy gossip with your colleagues.

Lunch time arrives and it’s late again! You’ve got little more than five minutes to grab a low cal sandwich, packet of new ‘healthy’ baked crisps and some fruit before the backlog towers higher sending you to bursting point!

Your day ends. It’s back to the house to cook tea. Kids demand smiley faces with ketchup and curry is on the menu tonight. Feet up, TV on and it’s almost another day over... Sound familiar? 

The average day for most of us may appear to be healthy, but if like many you’re prodding your bingo wings and slipping up another dress size then you may want to rethink you’re daily eating patterns for a more slender figure.

Elite Personal Trainer and Nutritional Advisor Simon Lovell says: “Getting a good wholesome breakfast is essential but it’s also important to keep grazing throughout the day, up until your evening meal. This will help speed up your metabolic rate that will in tern burn calories and lose you weight”.

Simon has developed a healthy eating plan that is designed to combat convenience snacking while building in the foods people enjoy. The Lunch Box Diet was developed in conjunction with his Fitness First client base in Exeter and it’s been seeing some great results. Simon has just launched his Lunch Box Diet Club based on his idea where he will work one-to-one with members in Devon.

“Many people get to lunch time and crave foods based on their hunger pangs and this isn’t always the best choice. By planning slightly, giving literally three or four minutes a day to packing the special lunch box you will boost your energy, lose weight and be more focused. What’s more I’ve found that the diet works brilliant at those who work in offices because they can have their box beside their desk or chilling in a fridge”. 

The diet works by picking foods from three different groups and packing a food container daily. The eating plan requires little imagination and there are thousands of combinations so it’s very unlikely you will get bored. The Lunch Box Diet also provides many of the nutrients our body requires. Simon also allows reward days where you can still indulge in the naughty things.

Fortunately Simon’s combined experience in both fitness and nutrition gives his clients an added advantage as he can teach what to eat pre and post exercise, something that many diets fail to offer. Implementing more carbohydrate before exercise is important for booting energy levels, just as protein intake is for rebuilding muscle.

“Once people start of the plan it’s very hard to come off because your taste buds change, your energy increases and you feel much less hungry during the day. So for that reason there is no yo-yo effect, it’s a lifestyle change”.