The Five Elements Podcast

11. How to Make Your Own Meal Plan

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This week on the pod, Coach Sam & Coach Dylan break down an article D wrote on how to make your own meal plan. They get into the nitty gritty of why meal plans don't work for long-term success, the important of "teaching a man to fish" and how to approach your own day to day meal planning. 


Roses & Thorns:

  • Dylan’s driving win, tackling limiting beliefs, the fear of asking for help, and the never-ending struggle of doing too much
  • Sam’s SAD and sick of winter, the 30th birthday existential fiasco, the pressure & expectations placed on women, and the grief of evolution


    • Black History Month Recos:

    (yes, we're late, forgive us)

    • “Somebody’s Daughter” by Ashley C. Ford
    • F.D Signifier on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FDSignifire


      • The Meat of It

      • Why we don’t recommend them & don’t find them to be effective
      • Dylan’s first & only meal plan experience
      • People don’t need to be told what to do, they need to be taught why they’re doing it
      • Why personal trainers aren’t all the same, and definitely are not equally qualified
      • Why there’s no such thing as a magic number when it comes to your macros
      • Maintenance is a range, and it isn’t static
      • The impact of flexible dieting on Sam’s journey
      • Why having a macro range instead of a set target might be more helpful
      • Why we preach trial and error
      • Why you NEED to understand energy balance to achieve flexibility + nutritional competence
      • The reason why calorie calculators don’t always guess your maintenance calories correctly
      • How to find your maintenance calories without a calorie calculator - which will *actually* be accurate to your unique body
      • Why accurately inaccurate is good enough


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