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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1245: Why Meal Plans Suck

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin discuss the pitfalls of meal plans.

  • The unpopular statement, why all meal plans suck. (2:58)
  • The mistakes the guys made in their early days of personal training when it came to providing meal plans to their clients. (5:15)
  • Why MOST people cannot stick to a meal plan. (11:52)
  • Challenging the trainer to not go the lazy route. (15:46)
  • Is following a meal plan long-term considered a disordered form of eating? (19:09)
  • What restricted eating can promote. (20:26)
  • It is NOT for me. (26:56)
  • Real-life changes, so change your routine. (31:19)
  • How the answers are NOT what will give you success, it’s how you GET to the answers that will give you success. (32:58)
  • Tips to build long-term results and change behaviors. (36:30)
  • Nutrition is individualized. (43:28)

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People Mentioned

  • Food, We Need To Talk (@foodweneedtotalk) • Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts.

0:09.0

Saldas Defenow, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

You know, us here at Mind Pump, we really enjoy the podcast space.

0:17.0

There's some phenomenal podcasts out there outside of, of course, your favorite podcast Mind Pump.

0:23.0

And we found a new one that we really, really enjoy.

0:26.0

In fact, one of the hosts, UNA Jada, was actually a Mind Pump fan.

0:30.0

I've actually been on their podcast, but it's a very well done podcast that revolves around food and health.

0:39.0

It's exceptional. In fact, one of the recent episodes, episodes, disordered eating and eating disorders, is exceptional.

0:45.0

So the podcast is called Food We Need To Talk.

0:49.0

The hosts are UNA Jada and Dr. Eddie Phillips.

0:53.0

And they talk about nutrition and exercise and all things health.

0:57.0

It is an NPR podcast, so you know, it's super high quality, great sound, great production.

1:03.0

They have an Instagram page. It's at Food We Need To Talk.

1:07.0

I think you're going to enjoy it. Make sure you go check them out.

1:10.0

In this episode of Mind Pump, we talk about meal plans.

1:15.0

Meal plans are probably the most basic, consistent, I would say popular way of trying to lose weight or change body composition.

1:25.0

Unfortunately, meal plans totally suck. They just don't work.

1:31.0

And we explain why in this episode, you should never follow a diet that is based off of meal plans.

1:38.0

So we talk about why people don't stick to them and why when people do stick to them, it's still not a good thing.

1:43.0

We talk about how it commences people that healthy eating is not for them, how it doesn't set you up for real life.

1:49.0

And you know, it's like getting the answers without figuring out how to do the work without figuring out the process.

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