Successful Meal Planning Strategies! | HealthStyle Fitness

Most of our very successful clients will admit that the planning stage of their journey was their #1 reason for success.

So then when life throws you a curveball (almost every day) you have food in place that turns that crazy pitch into a Ken Griffey, Jr. homerun.

Strategy #1: The Sunday Ritual

First, on your Ritual day, sit down and come up with your meal plan for the week. You must, must, must plan 7 dinners, 7 lunches and 14 snacks. Now, before you become overwhelmed, it’s a lot easier than it sounds.

Eat the leftovers from dinner for lunch the next day – that just cut out 7 meals that you have to plan.

If it is more convenient, consume nutritional shakes for your snacks. Quick, convenient and completely appropriate during meetings, conference calls or driving in your car – that just got rid of planning your snacks – Bam!

Now that you have your plan laid out (and once you do this 2-3 times, it gets really easy and quick), head to the grocery store. Make sure you don’t go on an empty stomach, or everything seems to find its way into your cart!

Once you get home, quickly prep, prepare and cook everything that you need to do ahead of time so that your week’s eating is seamless and efficient. It may be that you actually cook some of the foods ahead of time, wrap and then freeze them, or it may just be that you organize them into Tupperware containers in the refrigerator so that they are easy to grab and throw together.

Strategy #2: The Breakfast Ritual

Rather than preparing all your food for the week on Sunday, you may prefer to do a little food preparation each day.

This is actually how I prefer to do it, as I don’t mind getting up early enough to do it.

This strategy calls for you to cook all your food for the day in the morning, pack it up and go. It may be that this is simply your lunch, as you probably have time in the evening to prepare dinner. But don’t forget: plan for the unplanned. It may be that you are asked to stay late at work. Then what? Better have some good food ready or a shake at hand.

Plan for the unplanned, get the proper foods, and then eat them! You will be absolutely blown away by how your workouts now start to work in changing your body.

Don’t underestimate your nutritional plan.

And never underestimate the planning stage.

Additional Nutrition Resources to Help You Plan Effective Meals:

Fresh, healthy, prepared meals delivered to your door by a gourmet chef

High quality meal replacement shakes

Fitness Programs to Help You Reach Your Goals:

Cincinnati’s Total Fitness Makeover Program (Classes Available Now)

Cincinnati Adventure Boot Camp for Women (Next Camp Starts January 7, 2008)

Mason/Blue Ash Adventure Boot Camp for Women (Next Camp Starts January 7, 2008)

Cincinnati Personal Training

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Successful Meal Planning Strategies
Most of our very successful clients will admit that the planning stage of their journey was their #1 reason for success. So then when life throws you a curveball (almost every day) you have food in place that turns that crazy pitch into a Ken Griffey, Jr. homerun. Strategy #1: The Sunday Ritual First, on your Ritual day, sit down and come up with your meal plan for the week. You must, must, must plan 7 dinners, 7 lunches and 14 snacks. Now, before you become overwhelmed, it’s a lot easier than it sounds. Eat the leftovers from dinner for lunch the next day – that just cut out 7 meals that you have to plan. If it is more convenient, consume nutritional shakes for your snacks. Quick, convenient and completely appropriate during meetings, conference calls or driving in your car – that just got rid of planning your snacks – Bam! Now that you have your plan laid out (and once you do this 2-3 times, it gets really easy and quick), head to the grocery store. Make sure you don’t go on an empty stomach, or everything seems to find its way into your cart! Once you get home, quickly prep, prepare and cook everything that you need to do ahead of time so that your week’s eating is seamless and efficient. It may be that you actually cook some of the foods ahead of time, wrap and then freeze them, or it may just be that you organize them into Tupperware containers in the refrigerator so that they are easy to grab and throw together. Strategy #2: The Breakfast Ritual Rather than preparing all your food for the week on Sunday, you may prefer to do a little food preparation each day. This is actually how I prefer to do it, as I don’t mind getting up early enough to do it. This strategy calls for you to cook all your food for the day in the morning, pack it up and go. It may be that this is simply your lunch, as you probably have time in the evening to prepare dinner. But don’t forget: plan for the unplanned. It may be that you are asked to stay late at work. Then what? Better have some good food ready or a shake at hand. Plan for the unplanned, get the proper foods, and then eat them! You will be absolutely blown away by how your workouts now start to work in changing your body. Don’t underestimate your nutritional plan. And never underestimate the planning stage. Additional Nutrition Resources to Help You Plan Effective Meals: Fresh, healthy, prepared meals delivered to your door by a gourmet chef High quality meal replacement shakes Fitness Programs to Help You Reach Your Goals: Cincinnati’s Total Fitness Makeover Program (Classes Available Now) Cincinnati Adventure Boot Camp for Women (Next Camp Starts January 7, 2008) Mason/Blue Ash Adventure Boot Camp for Women (Next Camp Starts January 7, 2008) Cincinnati Personal Training © 1999 - 2007 HealthStyle Fitness, Inc & Brian Calkins - Cincinnati, Ohio Home :: Contact :: About Us :: Programs :: Private Studio :: Announcements :: Success Stories :: Store :: Resources :: Newsletter Close Window and return to briancalkins.com