Hi guys! It's Petrina here, your go to girl for learning how to make fit work in a crazy
busy world and it is a crazy Monday and I've gotten to thinking every once in a blue moon
I have someone coming around and asking me "can you make a meal plan for me? I just need
a plan. I need to be told exactly what to eat and when to eat. Can you do that for me?"
and well, I'm not a nutritionist. I'm not a dietitian so the short answer is 'no' I
can't create a meal plan for you, but I can show you how to create your own customized
meal plan based on whatever dietary preferences you have, if you're vegan, vegetarian, you
want to do low carb, all on the Team Beachbody Club Membership. It's one of our most under
utilized features and now that you can get a free trial of the Club, you can do it for
30 days absolutely free. You can make your own month's worth of customized meal plan
for weight loss, weight maintenance or even if you want to bulk up a little bit.
In case you missed it, if you want to find out how to take advantage of the free 30 day
trial, just click on that little italicized eye in the upper right hand corner of the
screen and it will take you to the page on my website that breaks down exactly how you
sign up for that free Club membership. Maybe one of the reasons why it is so under utilized
is it's kind of tricky to navigate how to go about doing it so I'm going to walk you
through step by step. I want to break it down as simply as possible and show you how to
set up your own customized meal plan for your goals on the Team Beachbody platform. Let's
go on the computer!
Alright, we are in the Team Beachbody dashboard and from here you are just going to go to
the "Eat Smart" tab up at the top. You're going to click on the "My Meal Planner" and
from there, there will be a pull down menu. You're going to select "MY Meal Planner" and
from there you can either create your own personalized meal plan on your own or you
can use the meal plan wizard to do all of that thinking for you. For purposes of this
little demonstration, I'm going to do the meal plan wizard because if you're new to
this, it's probably best if you just let them select a meal plan for you. You're going to
click on that "Use the Meal Plan Wizard" orange tab and from there you're going to be taken
to a series of really quick and easy questions to answer. It's going to ask you if you've
completed a Beachbody program or other fitness program recently to get an idea of what your
activity level is. You're going to click "no" that this is your first fitness program if
you're just getting started or if you're someone who has recently completed Beachbody program,
you'll click the "yes" there. If you've done something else, let's say you're going to
Zumba classes or you're just doing your own thing, you're going to click that "yes I recently
completed a Beachbody program other than P90X". You're going to answer what your goal is,
whether you want to lose a lot of weight, lose some weight, lose the last few pounds,
which I think for many is the hardest goal to achieve or if you want to maintain the
same weight, but tone up or change your body shape, you're going to choose that or even
if you want to gain weight and muscle you can create a meal plan for that particular
goal.
It's going to ask you how many times you're going to be exercising per day and I'm going
to put "once a day". I'm going to select "insanity" as the primary program and it's going to ask
you to rate your activity level before starting your exercise program. For this, be brutally
honest and I think if you're waivering between two different categories, select the one that
represents I think less activity just to be on the safe side. You can rate yourself as
very active or athletic if you've been working out for awhile. If you're like a cross fitter
or you've been training for marathons. Active, there's moderately active, which I think I
would check off if you work at a job where you have to be standing or walking a lot throughout
the day. Occasionally active or sedentary.
It's going to ask you whether you follow a vegetarian diet and we're going to talk a
little bit more about that later in the tutorial because there of course a difference between
vegan and vegetarian. I'm going to put no.
You're going to let them know whether you're a female or male, your age, your height and
your weight and then you click "submit" and it will make a recommendation for you.
As you'll see, there are four different meal plans offered throughout the platform. There's
the balance slim down, which is suggested for my goals and my weight. There's also the
low carb express plan that you can use if you prefer eating low carb or if you want
a faster track to weight loss. Low carb express plan is a good way to go. There's the power
vegetarian plan and also the active lifestyle plan, which again would be for someone who
is incredibly active, I think works out every day and that kind of thing.
As you'll see, it will also give you a recommended number of daily calories. For me it says 1,900
and I know from my own personal experience in losing a significant amount of weight,
it does impact the number of calories you need to eat in order to maintain. I need to
eat less than the average person for the weight that I am at for most of their lives just
to maintain my weight loss so I probably scale back a bit. It's up to you. You can scale
it down or scale it up if you know that you're going to be needing more calories to fuel
you throughout the day. That's kind of neat that you can manually adjust it and like that
they only let you bring it down to 1,300 calories a day. I think that's a good thing. Too many
people start starving themselves for weight loss and that is never a good thing.
It also gives you the option of including a serving of Shakeology every day. You can
unclick that if you don't have Shakeology on hand and then you're going to click on
the orange "I Accept" and it will take you to your meal plan. You can look through and
see what the plan looks like for throughout the week. If there is an item on there, which
there's bound to be. Everybody has their own tastes and preferences. Like for here, let's
see, I don't like tuna and it's got a tuna and tomato salad for lunch on Monday. You
can go in and click "edit" to change that. If you want to make a substitution, you're
going to click on the little blue arrow icons and it will give you a whole list of different
options you can choose instead. I'm going to pick the chicken parm sandwich to go for
that and it swaps it out as you can see right there.
You can print out your plan for the week to where it will show you all of the recipes.
You click on that little 'print' icon and as you can see, you can print it out. You
can scroll down and it tells you what the ingredients are and how to make the different
items that are showing up on your meal plan. You can also print out your shopping list
by clicking on the shopping list tab from the menu option on the right and it will spit
out what you can see is a detailed list of everything you need for what you're going
to be eating for that particular week. You can even edit out and delete certain items
that you know that you already have on hand or let's say there's white onion in a recipe
and you hate white onion, you can just delete that and it's gone.
There's also a really cool thing in the menu option called "My Food Preferences" so if
you have certain food sensitivities, allergies or dislikes you can select up to two different
categories that you can select pork, fish, chicken, shell fish, red meat, whole eggs
or nuts and you can take them off and they will not pop up in your future meal plans,
which is kind of cool too.
That's it. That's how you create your own customized meal plan for absolutely free thanks
to the Team Beachbody Club trial. Again, if you want to click on the italicized eye up
in the upper left corner of this video it will take you to the section on my website
where you can easily sign up for your free 30 day Team Beachbody Club trial.
That's it. Take care and have a great day guys!