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Meal Plan
Whether you're trying to lose weight, or just improve your diet, meal planning is an easy step to help you reach your goals. There are numerous advantages of planning out your meals in advance that can not only save your waistline, but also improve your health. You could lose 9 to 20 lbs. in 6 weeks.
Portion Control
Planning your own meals will allow you to see how much you’re actually eating. This also prevents you from overeating at restaurants, which tend to serve a way bigger portion than you should actually be eating.
Healthy Eating
When you’re hungry and your blood sugar drops, you’re more inclined to eat whatever you can get the fastest. This is why some of us settle for the closest fast food joint with unhealthy options. Meal planning eliminates this issue when you have a balanced meal at your fingertips, filled with nutrient-dense food prepped and ready to go!
Time Saving
Being hungry and realizing you have nothing planned is undoubtedly stressful. Instead of standing in front of your fridge or pantry deciding what to whip up, you can have your healthy meal ready in minutes. This also saves you the hassle of cleaning up after cooking.
Intermittent Fasting
Combining intermittent fasting and carb cycling can help prevent your body from adapting to a certain calorie or carb level, which can help you keep losing body fat for longer.
Carb Cycling
Carb cycling is a dietary plan that involves alternating your carb intake on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. The goal is to time your carb intake to when it's most beneficial and avoid carbs when they're not needed.
Food Groups
Protein
Protein is one of the most important building blocks of your body’s muscles, bones, cartilage, skin and blood and is necessary for almost all of the body’s physiological functions. In addition to being an essential macronutrient, it may also serve as an energy source when the body can’t utilize carbohydrates or fat.
Carbs
Carbohydrates are the body's main fuel source. During digestion, sugars and starches are broken down into simple sugars. They're then absorbed into the bloodstream, where they're known as blood sugar (blood glucose). From there, glucose enters the body's cells with the help of insulin.
Vegetables
Eating foods such as vegetables that are lower in calories instead of higher-calorie food may be useful in helping to lower calorie intake. Vegetables provide nutrients vital for health and maintenance of your body, such as vitamins A and C, fiber, folate, and potassium.
Fatty Protein
Simply put, a fat protein efficient diet targets your specific metabolic type and uses that to understand which foods best support your weight loss journey. Specifically, a fat protein efficient diet consists of foods higher in protein and fats versus carbohydrates.
Nuts
Nuts, though high in fat and calories, are remarkably nutritious. If you eat them moderately but regularly as part of a balanced diet, you’re not likely to gain weight. They may even help you lose weight.
Fruits
Eating foods such as fruits that are lower in calories instead of higher-calorie food may be useful in helping to lower calorie intake. Fruits provide nutrients vital for health and maintenance of your body, such as fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and folate.