Basics of a Healthy Diet - Meal Planning
When it comes to planning your meals it’s not as simple or as easy as just writing out your ‘ideal’ meals that you hope you’ll eat during the week! Here are some Fit Girl tips that might help you with your meal planning!
1. Get Some Inspiration
Check out recipe blogs, YouTube videos, Instagram and recipe books.
Find foods
which you will looking forward
to cooking and eating.
Forcing yourself to eat food
you don’t enjoy is not maintainable in the long term.
So keep an eye out for meals that you find appealing, but will be easy to recreate and will taste fab.
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2. What Suits your Lifestyle?
Next, look at your lifestyle.
What resources do you have
available at work? At home?
Who do you need to cook for?
How frequently do you want
to cook?
You don’t have to slave away
and meal prep a whole week
of food. You could always
just cook extra dinners and
take the leftovers for lunch.
Plan a cooking style that fits
easily into your lifestyle. If it
feels like too much of a chore,
change it up and try something new.
3. Stick to a Schedule
Once you’ve decided what
meals you will eat and how
you will prepare them, write
yourself out a weekly or daily
schedule, leave room for
error, such as a meal out, an ice cream at the beach or
a breakfast on the go.
Having a schedule that you can
tick off will help with your
accountability and will also
help you feel more prepared
when it comes to getting
your groceries!