Make Me a Meal Plan

Well, I can write you a meal plan if you really really want it.

But, I don’t particularly think they’re great. Pray Tell?

Well, okay, firstly we all think that someone telling you what to eat and when to eat is a great idea.

I know, I have been there. And for a small minority of people it is. People like athletes, models, people to need to eat precise quantities of specific food groups, people who need to eat for performance and eat before exercise/sport and after.

That’s not who I coach, I coach normal(ish) people with normal lives who have normal kitchens who shop in normal shops and need to cook normal, family friendly meals.

Here’s my main reasons why I don’t advocate meal plans (ps- I am NOT writing about your own meal plans that you create to aid your shopping list here- they are a good thing)

1 - It doesn’t appeal to your tastes- sure, I could give you a nutritionally balanced meal plan with a range of foods with different colours, perfect macro split, calories and textures. But what if you really really want something like bolognaise and I have written you something like seabass. It doesn’t appeal.

2 - I give you a week/a month of meal plans. What then? Do you only eat those foods till the end of days? Probably not.

3 - Does it suit your timetable. Jimmy has hockey on a Monday, Annabelle has music on a Tuesday, you have a class on a Thursday. Is it realistic to expect that you/someone has the time to prep all this

4 - Budgets- Sirloin steak, fish, free range organic corn fed chicken, these are all great high protein nutritious foods that I could put in but when you have £50 budget for a weekly food shop that’s not going to work.

5 - Timing- Your meal plan might have breakfast/snack/lunch/snack/dinner/snack in it. But what if you don’t like having breakfast, what if you have an 11 o’clock lunch and then a early dinner?

6 - Waste- Your meal plan has salad in it for 2 meals, so you buy hunners of salad. After 4 days, salad has gone off and it goes in the bin. You buy loads of random spices to go in the meals. They go off a year later.

People don’t tend to stick to meal plans given to them for the above reasons (designing your own for 2/3 days at a time is much more successful).

Do you want your coach spending hours (and they do take a long time) writing out a plan you will never follow or would you rather have the knowledge to pick healthy foods and create better meals that suit your tastes, lifestyle, family and budget.

This is why I make suggestion of things to change, offer alternatives to current ways of eating, we want to be better, not the best. We want progress not perfection.

If you want to learn about how to identify, plan, create healthy, family and budget friendly meals and change your habits then register your interest in the Barassie Fitness 12 Week Change your Life Programme. https://goo.gl/forms/SkQ6X9UroHcceR2g1