So what\u2019s wrong with meal plans?
\nIn our early days, we learned something the hard way:
\nMeal plans and diets aren\u2019t useful or sustainable for the vast majority of clients.
\nClients often feel like they\u2019re either \u201con\u201d them or \u201coff\u201d them. The black and white nature of a meal plan suggests that people have to eat perfectly at each meal (to match what\u2019s listed in the plan) \u2014 or they\u2019ve failed. It\u2019s psychologically unpalatable and unsustainable.
\nEven more, meal plans are too inflexible.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t work with the reality of people\u2019s busy lives. Work meetings, children\u2019s programs, meals out, dogs that need walking, cars that break down, family members that get ill, etc. Meal plans take none of these into account.
\nFinally, meal plans assume people already have the skills to follow them.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s simply not true. Most people who aren\u2019t eating healthy today don\u2019t have the basics down.
\nWithout skills like:
\n\u2022 planning grocery shopping;
\n\u2022 choosing the right items from the store;
\n\u2022 storing and preparing food correctly;
\n\u2022 eating slowly and mindfully;
\n\u2022 tuning into hunger and appetite cues;
\n\u2022 avoiding problem foods; and
\n\u2022 choosing better options at restaurants…<\/p>\n
…following a meal plan becomes hopeless.<\/p>\n
You might as well ask someone who\u2019s only strong enough to bench press 135 pounds to do 405 pounds. No matter how badly they want to, they don\u2019t have the skills or capacity.
\nBut these aren\u2019t just intellectual objections. In our experience, only 1 in 10 people can actually follow a meal plan for more than a few weeks.<\/p>\n
At Tim Harris Personal Trainer we coach creating new habits and making changes that last a life time not just a few weeks… www.timharris.de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So what\u2019s wrong with meal plans? In our early days, we learned something the hard way: Meal plans and diets aren\u2019t useful or sustainable for the vast majority of clients. Clients often feel like they\u2019re either \u201con\u201d them or \u201coff\u201d them. The black and white nature of a meal plan suggests that people have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n