Question: I’m doing well at making the necessary changes to enhance my resilience, but I’m still finding my nutrition program lacking. It’s not that I don’t know what I should be eating, but rather I need some strategy to execute a supportive nutrition plan. I just don’t seem to have the time. Any ideas?
Answer: There’s no question that some supportive behaviors are easier to change than others. Nutrition seems to be one of the hardest.
When it comes to changing the way our bodies look, to get leaner, and to stay healthier, nutrition is number one even over our workouts. Thankfully, it takes just a modest amount of planning and a little bit of time to successfully structure the execution of an effective supportive eating plan.
Here’s what you’ll need:
1. A supportive eating plan
2. Your daily planner
3. Enough food storage containers
4. Four weeks
Your Supportive Eating Plan
While it seems understood that to have a supportive nutrition plan designed to help you lose fat, look better, and feel better, it can be terribly confusing as to which plan is best.
The human body is very adaptable in regard to nutrition, so many different diet plans may prove successful. However, the reason so many diet plans may be effective is that they follow similar principles. Therefore, I suggest you seek out one that is based on simple, sound principles of nutrition and that is easy to adapt to your lifestyle.
My suggestion is the Meta Shred Diet from my good buddy, Dr. Mike Roussell from Chapter 11 in ALL GAIN, NO PAIN. Dr. Mike is the best in the business and remains my go-to guy for all things nutrition. Meta Shred is a no gimmicks approach filled with superb explanations of the nutritional principles that are effective no matter what diet program you choose. It also happens to be one of the easiest programs to execute with a day-to-day explanation of exactly what you should be eating to support your weight loss goal.
By the way, Meta Shred is marketed as a 28-day plan which is the perfect amount of time to establish your supportive eating behaviors. I’d also like to point out that I still use the Meta Shred principles every day to stay under 10% body (going on 2 years!).
Your Daily Planner
Your supportive eating plan is important. If you schedule it, you’ll do it.
Most folks are challenged by time. There never seems to be enough time to everything done especially when it comes to meal preparation.
I’ll offer two solutions.
Solution 1: Let’s say you’re doing two intensity-based workouts and two-capacity workouts per week. That’s about an hour per workout on four out of seven days. On two of your non exercise days, use the same time of day that you’d be working out to prepare your meals. On the remaining non exercise day, review your copy of Meta Shred to select your plan and select your meals.
Solution 2: Take a couple hours on Saturday or Sunday and knock the whole thing out at once.
Get Your Food Storage Containers
There’s two things I can’t seem to get enough of… colored tabs to mark important passages in my books and food storage containers.
Makes sure you’ve got enough of them and I suggest you purchase the best quality you afford so they last a long time.
Portion out your meals and store them in the refrigerator for when it’s time to eat. One of the keys to executing your supportive eating plan is to eliminate the emotion that goes with choosing what to eat. Unplanned eating is less likely when you’ve already decided what you’ll be eating.
Four Weeks from Now
You may not be perfect when it comes to executing your supportive eating plan. I’m surely not.
Each week strive to make progress on the execution of each step of the plan. Plan. Prepare. Store. Eat. Strive for an A- (90% effective) each week when you reflect on the week each Sunday.
In a matter of just four weeks, this lifestyle adjustment will be second nature. You’ll also most likely have noticed measurable progress toward your weigh loss goal.
Get started on your pain-free comeback to the gym today
