Meal plans

letsgain01

I have no idea how to go about creating a meal plan. Can someone help me figure it out?

TavistockToad

Find some pals with the same calorie goal and look at their diaries?

nxd10

What are you looking to do? If it were me, I'm pretty stable for breakfast and lunch every day. So lunch might be a choice of 3 different types of rollups and some fruit. Then I shoot for the balance of what I want for dinner for the week. For example, I might say I want 2 veggie dinners, 3 chicken, and 2 pork. Then I play what I'll have with that.

You can log those all in and see what it does for your calories, then erase them. You can even save the meals you reuse all the time (like breakfasts and lunches, but dinners as well if you repeat a lot) and just select that to simplify your logging.

Personally, I'm not that planful.

kommodevaran

What kind of help do you need?

How to assemble nutritious and tasty meals?
Choose foods you like. Eat a variety of foods from every food group every day. Focus on whole foods with few additives, do the cooking yourself if possible. Google recipes for foods you like or want to try. Have vegetables and fatty protein for every meal.

How to balance foods to hit calorie and macro goals?
Enter foods into diary, tweak amounts.

If you have special needs, please state them.

letsgain01

I'm a breastfeeding bike messenger. So all in all I need to consume approximately 3500 calories to maintain my weight.
Carbs 413 g
protein 118 g
Fat 97 g

I've been researching foods and an trying to put together a meal plan that meets my needs but it's harder than just trying to reach a calorie goal.

kommodevaran

You don't have to hit your macros on the gram every day. Calories are most important. Then focus on getting enough protein, then enough fat. There will almost always be enough carbs.