06/15/2023
You need a meal plan to lose weight❗️
When I first started my journey 9 years ago, I knew I needed a meal plan but it felt so overwhelming.
I don't know what to eat.
I don't know how to meal plan.
Meal prep is too hard.
I don't have the spoons to cook all week.
💥So I would avoid, procrastinate and put it off. 💥
Without a plan, I was not setting myself up for success and here's what would happen:
➡️I would wing it, have a protein shake for breakfast and then not eat until 2pm. By this point, I was STARVING.
➡️I would try to choose something that would fuel my body but it was like the hunger just wouldn't go away so I would keep eating to satisfy it.
➡️I must need to eat more because I still feel hungry.
What was happening was by waiting too long to eat, I wasn't intentional with what I was eating and I wasn't eating a variety of foods (which is what the body needs- protein, carbohydrates, fats) so my body was lacking what it needed.
This would also lead to night time cravings- this was my body yelling at me.
💥One of the most common complaints I see from women trying to lose weight is that they don't know how to meal prep or what to eat. 💥
So they search the internet and buy a meal plan that someone created so they can take the mental load out of it.
But they still don't meal prep because it's a bunch of foods they don't like or don't typically eat or complicated recipes.
The best thing you can do to meal plan is take a look at the foods you already enjoy eating and choose a veggie, a carbohydrate and a protein for each meal.
Look up a few recipes for foods you like to eat and try 1 to 2 recipes per week and plan around it.
A meal plan is simply a guide! It can always be changed but when you take the guess work out of what you are eating, you will avoid getting hangry and reduce over eating.
With practice, it gets easier over time because you get better at it!
"With discipline comes freedom." -Aristotle
Can you relate to this?