Grab a pen, open the Notes app on your phone, or pause this podcast and come back to it when you can give it your full attention.

Because by the end of this episode, you are going to have a meal plan that is built for your life, not just some template from the internet,

and you and I are going to build it together.

And in this episode of the Eric Roberts Fitness podcast,

it's stemming from, I literally just got off a call

with one of our new clients, Carrie, who signed up for coaching.

And before she came to us and signed up, she

had worked with another trainer previously years ago who had her on a meal plan. And I used

that term very loosely because the meal plan was salmon and broccoli and brown rice and egg whites and oatmeal.

And she was allowed, she was allowed to have fruit as a treat.

Or she was allowed to have, you know, some sort of sweet thing that's actually just healthy, sweet thing at night.

And I'm not saying that's inherently bad, but being allowed to have fruit as a treat,

I don't think that is a way to live life.

And I certainly know it's not a way to have a sustainable nutrition plan that you can

not only lose weight and get healthy with, but keep the weight off and stay healthy with. Because

that's what had happened to Carrie. She lost weight. Of course she did. She was eating like 800

calories. She didn't actually know, but when she

was telling me her meal plan, I was like, there's no way. That's more than a thousand calories.

So yes, she lost weight, but then what happened? She gained it all back and then some, because the

second she stopped eating like a robot, she had no idea to eat like a real human being when life gets busy. She had four

kids, four kids and a very demanding job. So she had no understanding of why that plan worked,

how to adjust it when life got crazy or how to build something that she could actually sustain. And that

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