Meal plans are one of the services I provide. Tell me some of the foods you enjoy eating and I’ll put them together with the right serving sizes so you can reach your weight management goal, whether that’s losing, gaining, or maintaining. Well, a few weeks ago, for the first time since I’ve been writing meal plans, a new client complained about theirs.
The issue?
The issue had to do with the supposed lack of variety. Apparently, she was expecting a number of different meal plans, maybe one for every day of the fucking week. Considering the price that I charge for a meal plan, I don’t know how she reasonably thought she was going to receive multiple meal plans, all different and custom to her, for the price she paid.
Nonetheless, what followed was me explaining my reason for only supplying one meal plan and having her eat the same thing every day. Because eating the same thing every day is something you should start doing likewise, I thought I’d share with you what I told her were the benefits of doing so.
For one thing, prepping your food ahead of time makes life easier because all you have to do is reheat what you made and then eat it, which saves you the trouble of cooking after a long day of work or thinking about what you want to eat. To this end, when you’re eating the same shit every day, it’s more convenient to prep food because everything can be made in bulk and just divvied up for however many meals over however many days, as opposed to preparing several unique items for each day and/or meal.
Secondly, research shows that people who successfully manage their weight tend to eat comparable things each day. Some reasons for this include it being easier to prep food in advance, as mentioned above. There’s also the fact that the more often you eat something, the more it becomes a habit instead of a conscious choice. To this end, someone coming to me for help and in need of a meal plan suggests the lack of healthy eating habits. As such, eating the same shit every day can help with the establishment of such a healthy eating pattern.
So nuh!
*sticking my tongue out with my thumbs in my ears and my fingers wiggling*
Monster Longe is a personal trainer in San Diego. He has been lifting weights for +25 years and training clients in the gym and online for about half of that time. When not working with clients or making content that's easy to read, understand, and apply to everyday life, he enjoys long walks and leaving buildings crushed and entire city blocks decimated in his wake.
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