So you have your overall plan - your goals that you want to achieve - but is that enough? The reality is that goals are rarely achieved with out specific regular attention to daily planning. It can be a bit of a chore, but its the difference between achieving and letting yet another dream slip by whilst you were "busy".
If you really want to make this happen, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.
The meal planner can be a bit daunting to start with, particularly if you are not used to planning your food in advance. But putting a little bit of time aside each day can be the difference between heading towards your goals or away from them. Do the yo-yo each day and you'll never go anywhere. It will be the difference between getting home at night without the right foods to cook a healthy dinner so resorting to a poor choice meal, or finding yourself going hours with no good food choices because you're on the road and having to eat something you said you didn't want to. 15 mins planning at night, can save you wasting a whole day.
So how to do it?
You can use the meal planner to generate a daily or weekly plan for you, and then swap the meals with other recipes until you have something that suits you. But this might take you more than 15 mins at first, as you get used to the system and we get your favourite foods and recipes on there. But I am here to help. Send me lists of foods you cant find and would like on there and I'll add them. You can add them too but if I add them everyone will see them, and I'm happy to save you the time.
As you experiment - if you find you've run out of time to plan for the next day - try entering what you eat as you go, so that you can keep track of how you are going for the day.
On the right hand side of the meal planner are two columns of figures - one is your recommended ranges of calories,protein, fat etc, and the other is what you have had (or planned) so far. If you can only manage to track your eating after you have eaten, at the very least add it all up BEFORE you have your evening meal - so you can see whether you need to be very careful about what you eat for the rest of the day as this is a time that many people eat a lot - lots of energy to fuel doing nothing!
You are given a range of calories eg 1200 - 1600. I suggest you use the higher number for days when you exercise and the lower number for days when you don't.
Use the next day or so to get organised and find your way around the site. I'll be sending a welcome email shortly about the challenge starting Sunday and how it works - lets get it happening!
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