Meal plans, I get it, you want to be told what to
eat because then problem solved you don’t have
to worry about that anymore. To tell me what to
do and I'll eat this way and I'll get to my goal
and I'll just do that forever and live happily
ever after. Yeah doesn't work like that. There's
a better way a much easier way. That's what I
want to talk to you about. My name is Joe Leech
I'm a dietitian and my company provides online
dietitian consulting. And if you're looking
for a meal plan, or you've thought about following
one or you are following one this video is super
important for you as going to save you a lot of
time. First things first I understand why we look
for meal plans, right? Because it's like it's
just so this issue is so tiring and frustrating
for me and I feel like I don't know what I can eat.
Just tell me what to eat, you can argue there’s
a case for that in the very beginning. Yes, but
it's the beginning and when you were ultimately
your goal is like I want to get from this issue
I have to this pain-free problem or this life
where I don't think about that anymore. It's
not an issue for me. Now, the meal plan is a
beginning but this journey has a middle and
an end and all you're getting is the beginning
if you just focus on a meal plan and I mean the
very beginning. Because we need to be real here. You
going to like a meal plan is it's someone else's plan.
Are you going to eat? Someone else's plan for
the rest of your life? Like what happens when
you stop? Meal plans don’t allow you to learn
about what your body wants and why they don't
take in context. So when you have cravings or
your circumstances or environment changes
and without the context, they're not applicable
to how we live our lives. But yeah the idea of
a meal plan looks so good, right? I say it's like
baby clothes with little pockets. Right but
they look great but they're useless. Baby doesn't
need to put his pens there or his phone or his
wallet, right? All that ends up in that pocket
is is dirt and stones and possibly shit. It just
potentially makes things a mess. And that's
what happens with the meal plan. The other thing
is like meal plans assume you eat perfect, it assume
you eat perfect. Guess what? You eat McDonald's
sometimes, we eat Pizza, we drink coffee, or we drink
alcohol or whatever it is. Humans, don't eat perfect.
And so they shouldn't you don't have to like
to be healthy and happy you don't have to eat perfectly.
It doesn't require perfection. You don't have
to be a robot. You are not a robot. The good news
is it it's easy to make the changes that you need
to without a meal plan if you just intentional
and methodical and do things incrementally,
so I'll explain how you should approach this.
With our clients, we want you to transform how
you currently eat to be in line with your with your goals.
But also your lifestyle and your habits. So
rather than reinvent the wheel and have a new meal plan
plan every week every two weeks. Look at how
you currently eat. Now what small changes and tweaks
can we make to make it more in line with your goals?
And if we use gut issues as an example say you
need to follow some sort of protocol that eliminates
potential triggers rather than you just having
to get you and your family to follow this whole
new way of eating or you and your partner. We’re
you having to eat separate meals and prepared
two different meals all the time let's look at
what you you and your partner typically enjoy
and how can we swap some things and make it in
line with your goals as well? Because it's a
lot easier than you think if you know what to
look for. Aim to make each meal or choice a little
better incrementally over time and it adds
up. That’s how a sustainable transformation
and change works. That's how life works. Say
like you want to learn to do shoulder press this
movement here with the dumbbells. And you want
to go from 10 pounds to 50 pounds or like five
kilos to 30 kilos. You don't just do that overnight
right you slowly build up you start at 5 pounds
you get a 7.5 10 excetera. Yet with nutrition
and diet people want to go from eating bloody
garbage to Instagram perfect diet overnight
just like that life doesn't work like that.
You have to do it incrementally. Learning a language
another good example. That's what I'm doing
right now. You can't just write down all the
words onto a piece of paper and then the next
day you're fluent. No one would expect that
yet when it comes to diet changes you expect
yourself to just get a whole new way of life,
like eating affects so many aspects of our lives.
Don't just think nutrition, but socially as
well you're just gonna gonna get a new plan and
Toda piece of cake. No worries, like get real people.
You need to observe your current diet and be
methodical about what you're going to change
and and implement those changes but incrementally
and it it stacks up very fast and the change has
become very pronounced. It's not a click your
fingers, but it works and I know that that
process like it is simple to do if you know what
to look for but of course if you try and do it by
yourself, it's very overwhelming and complex
and that's why we do what we do and I have the business
that I had because we've taken this complex
thing and making it very simple for you to do
and really telling you what to do each step of
the way so guiding you so you don't have to think
much and you don't have to stress and be feel
overwhelmed but it's it's not the meal plan
that is is what will help you feel that way and
get to that solution. It's actually individualized
guidance through a more sustainable process,
which is small changes tweaking what you do
what you currently do. Sorry rather than reinventing
the wheel. if you'd like some help with this process
that is what we do. I have a short training video
that like explains how we're different and
how it works with us. If you want to check that out
just put “TRANSFORM” in the comments and I can
send you that little video lesson and if you're
not interested, that's cool. Of course, you
can do something like this on your own just have
a think about have a think about what I've said,
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