Meal Planning and Menu Creation - Making Right Food Choices
Written by Yasar Shahzad Friday, 02 July 2010 19:25
Meal Planning and Menu Creation - Making Right Food Choices
In previous sections I have taught you all, you need to know about your daily nutrition requirements to lose fats and build lean muscles. Now I guess the question is in your mind that which the best foods are containing the best nutrition for building Lean Muscles and losing the fats. In this section “meal planning and menu creating”, I am going to give you all the nutrition theory together into a real-world, actionable plan that you can follow easily on a daily basis. I will tell you exactly which foods are the best for building lean muscle and which ones are the worst. I have revealed a simple formula for merging individual foods into fat-burning meals and I will teach you how to turn those individual meals into a daily menu plan for fat loss and building lean muscles. Most important of all, you’ll learn that you must plan your diet in advance and never “wing it.” As achievement expert Brian Tracy warns, “Lack of planning is the cause of all failures.”
You are what you eat, everything you eat either helps or hurts. If you’ve been blessed with an efficient metabolism and you think you can "get away" with frequent dietary indiscretions, you’d better think again! Everything counts. No food has a neutral effect. Everything you eat burns your body fats or feed your belly fats. Once you understand and accept the maxim that you are literally what you eat, and that every food you eat either helps or hurts, you'll start to get extremely careful about creating your menus and planning your meals.
How to Make the Right Food Choices
The results you get on this program will be equal to the sum total of all your food choices. Every little thing you eat counts and add up over time to produce an increasing result. This end result – a fat free lean body – is achieved one tiny step at a time, one meal at a time, one workout at a time. As Motivational speaker Jim Rohn puts it, "Success is a matter of a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. Failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day." This is so true when it comes to nutrition. Every choice you make must be thought out and carefully planned into a written daily schedule. When it comes to food, acting without thinking can be disastrous. You’re more likely to eat the wrong things when you don’t have a written plan and schedule. Without planning and preparation, you’re leaving yourself at the mercy of whims, cravings and circumstances. So be ready to learn the real world secrets in planning and creating your menus and don’t let your self-made excuses come in your way.
There are never any good reasons for diet failure, only excuses
Being a consultant in the health and fitness, I must have heard every excuse ever invented for why people eat the wrong things or “fall off the wagon:”
“I was traveling.” “I didn’t have anything else with me.” “I had to eat airline food.” “The only place to eat was mcdonalds.” “It would be rude to turn the food down because I was a dinner guest.” “It was the only thing on the menu.” “I couldn’t help myself…I had a major craving.” “I was starving – I had to eat something.”
This is just a small sampling of the reasons i’ve heard for why people don’t eat what they know they should eat. The fact is, there are no good reasons, only excuses, because you always have choices. Even if you’re eating at a fast food restaurant, you still have choices, don’t you? You can have a chicken salad instead of fried chicken nuggets. Even when it appears that you have no choice at all, you still have a choice: You can choose how much food you’re going to eat. It’s better to have a small serving of something bad than a large serving of something bad. The nutritional value might be poor, but at least you’re obeying the law of calorie balance.
