Flexible Meal Plans

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast

The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Flexibledieting, Fitness

5 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we’re talking all about meal plans. To kick things off, Miguel explains the research behind meal plans (1:35). There are two main types of meal plans. On one hand, you have a rigid dietary restraint and that’s the idea that you have a meal plan where you’re either “on” or “off” with no in between. On the other, there’s a flexible dietary restraint. This is where you understand that certain foods and calories can be switched out. So what are the benefits to having a meal plan? Probably the most important being that it provides you with structure. With structure comes the ability to reverse engineer your day (5:37). There are going to be moments throughout your day when you can’t or don’t have the time to think about food. For these times, you have two options. You can either eat a typical meal that you know you enjoy or you can plan out your food/macros the night before. While you’re creating structure, you know that nutrition can be thought of as a dimmer switch. The goal is to track now, so you don’t have to for the rest of your life (9:03).

Moving on, we discuss society’s weight gain problem. If you follow Layne Norton, you’ve heard him say, “we don’t have a weight loss problem, we have a weight gain problem” (13:57). People can diet and lose weight, we see that. The problem is when people stop dieting and go back to their old behaviors like not moving as much or not thinking about their cravings. Diets aren’t some sort of a reset button. Something has to change in order for you to maintain your weight, new shape, etc. With that being said, the people that find success with dieting are those that incorporate their new behaviors into their life, for the rest of their life.

And now, to wrap this episode up, we touch on why we promote Flexible Dieting (19:55).

Show Notes/All Resources from Episode:

https://www.flexibledietinglifestyle.com/podcast-show-notes/

Zach’s Instagram @theflexibledietinglifestyle
The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle website - https://www.flexibledietinglifestyle.com
Miguel’s Instagram @mblacutt
Miguel’s website - https://miguelblacutt.com
Miguel’s coaching - http://revivestronger.com/online-coaching/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the flexible dieting lifestyle podcast.
0:12.5	I'm your host, Zach Rushelo.
0:13.9	I'm with my co-host, Miguel Blakut.
0:16.2	In today's podcast, I'm telling you guys, we are telling you guys that meal plans are dope. And so you
0:23.5	might be thinking like exact meal plans. Like we flexible diet. We don't we do the opposite of meal
0:30.3	plans. Meal plans are for losers. And I totally get it. But before we begin and we tell you guys
0:37.0	why meal plans are actually very
0:38.9	beneficial on how you can integrate them and add them into your flexible dieting game plan,
0:45.4	please give the videos, please give the podcast a screenshot, post up on your Instagram story,
0:50.6	let people know that you're listening. If you could, please leave a five-star review on any platform that you listen to the podcast on. It helps us tremendously. So, Miguel,
1:02.1	I mean, I think all of us, when we start flexible dieting, it's the idea that like meal plans
1:10.5	don't work. It's meal plans aren't
1:12.6	sustainable. Meal plans lead to disordered eating. Meal plans lead to not great results.
1:20.1	Can you chime in and let people know about the research of meal plans and what they actually do?
1:26.6	And then we can talk about the application of them and how people can actually find a hybrid
1:32.6	between the two.
1:34.3	So I think that it's important to understand that there are two main types of dietary restraint
1:39.3	because at the end of the day, like we are restraining the diet.
1:42.9	We're not just going on eating everything
1:45.0	we want. There's a rigid dietary restraint, and that is the idea that most people have when it
1:51.1	comes to meal plans, and that is that you have a meal plan or you have a certain structure,
1:55.7	and either you are on or you are off it, and there's absolutely no in between, there is no
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