Oh you, Meal Planning Service. You promise so much:
realistic recipes
personalized diet planning
grocery shopping lists
support of my health goals
However, you missed something B-I-G.
You didn’t tell me how to make time in my week to shop and cook.
That I still had to plan to implement the meal plan.
That I would need to address my habits and my daily M.O.
Eeek.
Y’all, it’s natural to want to believe that the meal plan is the be-all-end-all:
“I will stick to the plan if I can get the weekly meal layout and the recipes!”
“I just need to be told what to do!”
“If I didn’t have to think about it, this would be so much easier!”
The kicker is that the pre-designed meal plans don’t really address habits, the daily system, stress eating, the unforeseen, or much of the Life part of our Lives.
And this is where some of the awesome nitty gritty work comes in: addressing those foundational pieces that make or break our every day. It is then that the meal plan can bring about more of the results we seek.
But to be honest, when we effectively rework our habits, daily systems, and all those funky foundational pieces, the meal plan is no longer needed like we thought.
A little Friday food for thought.
-Dina
“You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.” — James Clear