is steak salad healthy for dinner? under 500 calories?

Way too much meat. Protein is highly overrated in Western culture. Any excess just turns to fat and meat already has a whopping amount of fat to start with.

Counting calories is a waste of time since diets to lose fat don't work because the body goes into a kind of starvation mode where it squirrels away every spare calorie as fat and will cannibalize bone and muscle tissue for energy.

Eating balanced meals as recommended in the Harvard Eating Pyramid and exercising at your target heart rate is the best way to reduce the percentage of body fat.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/index....

http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/healthtool-t...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=10930

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?cat=7

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=9955

Any exercise that is performed at your target heart rate for an extended period will burn fat. Walking, cycling, and rowing are some of the best. Use a pulse meter to ensure that you are exercising at the correct intensity. Too intense and you just burn sugar, not fat.

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