Why I don’t do meal plans 🧐 🥗🍎🍞
I’ve never followed a meal plan, I don’t create meal plans and I will never sell meal plans.
Why?
First of all, it’s illegal 🤷🏼♀️
It’s illegal for anyone who is not a RD to sell meal plans. Why? Because it’s essentially writing you a prescription. What food to eat, how much and at what time. Without having the proper education to back up their protocols, you can absolutely get yourself in hot water by hiring someone who doesn’t have the credentials to back up their protocols.
I am team #flexibledieting all day long, restriction doesn’t work well for me. I eat dessert every night, poptarts for preworkout and hate being told what to do. So macro tracking and IIFYM was the perfect fit for me 🤓
So why would anyone choose to follow a meal plan instead of counting macros?
Convenience. It’s so much easier to just eat than learning HOW to eat.
They don’t teach you anything about nutrition, only to eat what’s in front of you.
So what do you do when your friends want to go out to eat, but the restaurant they chose doesn’t fit within your plan? What do you do? Do you stay home and follow the rules or do you throw your goals in the trash to spend time with your people? 👯♀️ Why do you even have to pick? What happens when you travel? ✈️ You can’t meal prep all of your food on vacation, and you probably don’t want to. How do you know what to fuel your body with that won’t ruin your progress?
What about the next time you want to lose a few pounds? You’re still just as clueless as you were the first time around, the only way for you to “diet” is to hire someone to write you a new meal plan.
After you finish the meal plan, what did you learn? How to follow the rules?
With tracking macros, you have to learn about nutrition to make it work. 🍔
With my team, education is our first priority. Everything we do is built on creating sustainable habits to keep you healthy and happy long term. We track macros, we learn about nutrition, we level up our training knowledge. 🤓
Do we take the easy approach? Nope. Is it worth it? Absolutely. 🙌🏼
Why I don’t do meal plans 🧐 🥗🍎🍞