Why I Don’t Write Meal Plans for My Client
I had a blunt conversation with someone yesterday, who really wanted to see weight-loss results, but they didn’t want it enough to LEARN how to make it a part of their lifestyle.
They wanted me to write a meal plan for them and tell them exactly what to eat and when to eat.
I know understanding macros, tracking everything you eat in an app, and being consistent with hitting your numbers takes work. But If I wrote you a meal plan and you followed it, you would hate the dieting process, and once you reached your goal weight you would bounce right back to your old eating habits. You’d also most likely develop some kind of unhealthy relationship and/or outlook with food.
The ONLY time I’ve ever seen a meal plan really work was with a high profile client who could afford to have me break the macros down, hire a meal prep company to match the meals to the macros and have every meal consumed cooked and delivered to them.
It did work, I won’t BS you. But most of us can’t afford this kind of luxury. Which is exactly why I practice nutrition as a lifestyle with my clients.
Here are some ideas you can start TODAY to make nutrition part of your lifestyle, instead of seeking out a meal plan from someone like myself.
Education
Learn what macros are, how they work in your body and what foods have more calories than others. Understand the difference between complex carbs, saturated and unsaturated fats and track YOUR bodies biofeedback after eating certain foods. We all process and digest foods differently and learning what works and feels best for you and your body is key to long term success,
Plan ahead
Choosing the right foods you buy at the grocery store, for all your meals throughout the week. Stock up on foods you can also freeze and pull out of the freezer as the week rolls along. Plan trips to the grocery stores, plan on the nights you will be cooking and allocate the time and energy necessary to making those trips and cooking your food.
Be flexible in your diet!
Allow for some flexibility in your diet. If it’s an all or nothing mentality, you’re basically setting yourself up for failure because no one is perfect all year round and no one can adhere to a strict and rigid diet for very long. Flexibility is KEY!
Enjoying the process is so unbelievably underrated inside the nutrition space and ironically it’s one of the biggest keys to staying consistent! When you see people who have been lean all year long, it’s because they work toward their goals on a consistent basis without having to make many sacrifices because they have made nutrition a part of their lifestyle.