Every week clients ask for a food plan or meal plan to follow. Other places offer it as 30/10 or Jenny Craig…but I don’t write a food plan to follow every day. Why not?
I wouldn’t write a food plan for someone because we are all different, bio-individuals with different schedules, activity levels, microbiome and genetics.
The biggest goal for everyone is to eat the right ratio of foods that balance the blood sugar and reduce insulin surges. Often, starting clients out with a lower carbohydrates (lots of non-starchy, organic vegetables), moderate grass-fed/free range/wild caught protein and higher healthy fats in the right macro-nutrient ratio that keeps them full and satisfied for hours. We should feel full, satisfied and energized after eating… if the right ratio of foods instead of feeling fat, bloated, gassy, fatigued and inflammed.
I have my clients track their food log for a few days with their mood and symptoms after they eat or drink. What works best for you is different for someone else. I can’t tolerate fruit by itself or most starchy carbs… unless I want to have a headache and continue searching for food all day to feel satisfied and comfortably full!
Usually less food is best for most everyone. I don’t agree with the constant grazing and snacking to keep our “metabolism up” as I shared in my book “LIFE IS NOT A RACE”. I teach my clients to try an over night intermittent fast during the week -when appropriate. Also we do a five day liver detox/fast with Cauldron bone broth, ACV detox drink and vegetable drink fasts. The goals is to rest the digestive system, reset the liver and start to change our dependency as well as relationship to food.
Eat when hungry- not by the time of day. We don’t need three meals and two snacks per day. Often we just need to let ourselves learn how to feel hungry and not eat out of habit. We have stored fat in our cells… how do you think you are going to burn fat when we keep eating so much volume and so frequent? Plus we eat so many carbohydrates per day when we really don’t need more than 50 (or less for some people) grams per day.
I don’t like to follow a meal plan as I don’t know what I feel like eating until that day – sometimes your body feels like warm foods, or a big salad and then other days you just are happy with a super foods shake!
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Debbie Potts
