Who plans their day out?

I'm not a planner, but I started to plan my meals and it's helping me a lot.

I do. I have every meal planned out M-F without even having to think. Cook/prep most on a Sat or Sun day and take what I need. Creature of habit. If I know it will help me maintain/get to my goals, I stick with it. Weekends are a slight variation (but NOT much) each week that I know what I'll be eating for the majority of my meals.

Planning your meals ahead of time is a sure fire way you STICK to ratios/calories you need to get where your going. The question you have to ask yourself is, how bad do you want it? If your trying to lose a few pounds or even a lot of pounds, you need to have things prepared so that you can be accountable to yourself and track your progress.

I'm the same with my workouts. Certain days I spin, certain days I do a circuit style class (think p90x) and all of them have a body part to do after. What exercise while weight training is varied each week to keep the muscles from adapting to quickly. That's my variety. Weekends are set as well just with a higher demand on activity. Know what your going to do, do it, see progress, smile.

Some people call it obsessive, I call it dedicated. But it got me to where I wanted and that's what matters in the end. Plan it and you'll get there.

I do!! It helps me not overeat! AND to see if I have room for treats every once and a while! If I don't plan my day out i"ll eat anything

I plan it out until I'll be leaving work because i'm aiming to only eat what I bring with me. So that's basically half my day. Then when I get home I can see where I'm at and go from there.

Yep. I plan out every day in the morning. I would plan out the entire week if I could minus dinner.

Yup, I find I stay on track much better when I pre-plan. At work, I tend to have the same thing almost every day, so I copy that forward for the week. We eat out a lot, so lunch is often leftovers from other dinners. I have chocolate every day, so that and my gummy vitamins are pre-logged as my after dinner snack. Then it's just dinner and a snack to log. Even if it isn't pre-planned out days in advance, I log it before I eat it. I work in an office, so I log most of my day first thing in the morning.

This also helps me meet my various macro goals (esp protein). So I'll tweak things to choose foods that are high in protein and meet my calorie goals (e.g. peanut butter on a cracker instead of a cookie).

I'll do it the night before for the next day - and workouts are generally planned for the full week. Plus, if I know what meals I'm having tomorrow, I can check that I have the stuff in to make it, or if I need to pick something up.

If I know I'm going to be eating out, I'll look at the menu online where possible, and choose what I'm having in advance. That way, I know if I need to have a lighter lunch or breakfast, or maybe try and fit in an extra workout.

I'll tweak it as I go along though and won't beat myself up too much if I go off-plan, but generally it works well for me.

I work the moring shift at a hotel from 7am to 3pm. They allow us to eat free breakfast since we have to be here so early. This causes so much temptation. They first month or so I eneded up gaining weight from the muffins/pastries/waffles ect. So now I plan out my breakfast and lunch before I go to slee the night before. It's usually the same thing everyday but It's filling enough and low calorie. It leaves me with 900 or so calories left for dinner. So I get to eat a large dinner and not feel bad about it.

I plan most days, but its not a hard and fast plan. It just helps me stay around my goal better. I make lots of tweaks to it as i go on with my day:)

I have to fix and bring my lunch and snacks so I plan that part but not until the morning. If I don't do that - I end up eating from the gas station next door and no good comes from that. I also like to know what my calories and protein are going to be before I eat them (and adjust if needed) so I like to enter them in the morning. I eat similar things over and over though so it isn't hard. I have a family so have food around. I'm not looking around at a foodless kitchen like I might have when I was on my own. I don't plan for breakfast. I used to eat whatever the kids didn't :anon: but now I have a protein shake so no planning needed.

I don't usually plan the evening meal. Life is easier on a number of levels when I do though!

I do try to plan ahead, absolutely. I usually pre-log my breakfast the night before and have a rough idea of what I will have for dinner in order to plan/log lunch.

For example today I had a small breakfast and lunch with lots of protein in both meals, because tonight I know my husband and I are going to my mom's place for dinner and having a huge veggie-laden salad and pineapple upside down cake.

I pre-log as much as possible. I'm kind of nerdy about numbers and like to try to get my calories within the 0-3 cal range every single day ;-) Of course I never know exactly how much exercise I'll get in, though!

I also pre-plan and do some of my cooking on Sundays, putting each day's lunch into a container. I leave the house at 6:30 am for work and it makes it easier for me to just grab it from the frig and go. I also keep a pack or even keep a few snacks at work, just in case it's 3:00 pm and need something to get me through until dinner. That way I won't be starved when I get home from work and go straight for junk.

And even though I normally don't do my workouts until after dinner, I like to log them at the beginning of the day. It keeps me accountable (I'd feel so guilty if I got lazy and decided not to do it and HAD TO DELETE IT!!!). Logging ahead of time also lets me know how many calories I have left to spread out through my meals and snacks.

I always plan, if I didn't I would be even bigger than I am now

i like to know what i am going to eat before i eat it to make sure i stay within my calories and macros. i learned the hard way that logging things after i eat usually leads to going over in one or the other, or both.

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I eat pretty much the same breakfast every day so that ones usually a given. But everything else is always different. And what I fancy eating at the time! But today, whilst I ate breakfast I logged my lunch for the first time haha. Only because I made soup yesterday and knew I was having it for lunch today!!

Once I did log my lunch before I ate it. Got distracted and then thought I ate my lunch! An hour later I was starving! Went to go get something more to eat and discovered I hadn't actually eaten my lunch paha!! I'm a special case!