Jamie Eason Live Fit Trainer Meal plan

cassiemorris85 wrote: »

Hi there MFP community. I have had an account for a really long time and I am an off again/on again user of my account. I am trying to get better about logging in, logging my food, and staying accountable. I am also trying to get back into the gym routine. I started the Jamie Eason Live Fit trainer last week, so I started week 2 yesterday. It's a great way to get in to strength training if you have never gotten into it before or don't know where to start like myself.
Anyway; There is a meal plan that Jamie Eason has given to go along with the program and at first I didn't think I would follow it, that I would just try sticking with my calorie goals as recommended by MFP. Well, I changed my mind! The meal plan doesn't look too hard to follow at all, it looks rather easy without having too many "special" foods to by... like it's not strictly brand specific or anything. It's protein, vegetables, and starch, that's it!
Since I am JUST starting out, I was wondering if anyone has followed her meal plan before and what you found worked and didn't? What you would do differently? Any sage advice?
This morning started day #1 and I am already frustrated and I have only had one meal so far.
5 egg whites, a starch, and unlimited vegetables. Doesn't sound too awfully hard, right? Well 5 egg whites ALONE is quite a bit and then I had a serving of oatmeal and a little sauteed spinach. I couldn't finish it all. It was way too much. I don't know what to do differently because 5 egg whites will always be a lot on it's own and I am pretty certain that's not where I should skimp because that's the protein. Also, egg whites really aren't very good =( Maybe I need to cook them differently? They are so spongy...anyway. I guess I just want to know what others have experienced with this?

Thanks!

cassiemorris85 wrote: »

I'm on week 10 of her plan and it's probably the best training plans I've done. That said, I haven't stuck to her meal plan 100%, but I have pretty much stuck to the workout plan (with a few days missed here and there due to being out of town). Here are my thoughts and what helped me:
1) Meal prep. I cooked my meals on Sundays and Wed for the week. So when I left for work, all I had to do was grab my meals for the day from the fridge and go. I usually only ate 3-4 oz of protein, because it was just a lot of food. Check out aleshahaley.com. She has a lot of GREAT recipes you could try...she actually has done Jamie's plan twice through.
2) I made some of her protein bars. If you look at her meal plan, you will see there are a few things you can substitute for some of the meals. I pretty much always had her protein bars for one of the meals. I made a chocolate protein bar that tasted like brownies and I could pretty much eat them everyday!
3) For breakfast I NEVER could eat the 5 egg whites. I always have 1/2 cup uncooked oatmeal, and I mix in 1/4 cup egg whites in the oatmeal, and 1/2 scoop of chocolate protein powder, plus 1/2 cup of unsweetened almond milk and some ground flax seed. When I did have plain eggwhites, I used Eggbeaters. They're not quite as yucky to me as plain eggwhites for some reason.
4) About week 9 I got pretty tired of the meal plan. LOL. So I decided I'd switch to flexible dieting. It's worked much better for me and my lifestyle (and less stressful). I'm still following the workouts, just not the meal plan anymore. I know my results may be affected, but I'm planning to continue her workouts after the 12 weeks, so I'm fine with that.
5) Weekends were so hard for me. I'd probably we farther ahead in my results if not for the weekends. LOL. But that's life, and probably why flexible dieting is working better for me.

Good luck! Stick with it and I think you'll be happy with it.

Hi; Thanks for your in depth review! I have done meal prepping before and need to take it up again! It really helped me stay on track... for the most part. I did find that a lot of things didn't taste good after a day or two. I did 2 prep days and would prep for 3 days at a time. I tried storing things in the freezer too and only taking them out the day before I was going to eat them, and they still didn't taste very good =( So you put liquid eggs whites into your oatmeal, and it still tasted alright??
I want to know more about flexible dieting. I was hoping someone at my gym could help me figure out my macros so that I could attempt flexible dieting because that to me sounds much more in my realm of possibilities, however, it sounds hard too. How do you satisfy your macros without going over calories and how do you make sure it all balances the way it's supposed to? So much to learn about it. I was going to make Jamie Eason's carrot protein bars because that's what specifically was on the plan, but you think I could make the chocolate or the lemon ones instead? I am very black and white when it comes to reading things. Unless it says "unlimited vegetables" where I could assume that means any vegetables on her list, I always want to stick with whatever is exactly written. So she said carrot protein bars on the meal plan and so I assumed that was the only one she wanted us to have.
Weekends are hard for me too, and everything is harder when my husband is home (he works 3 weeks on and 3 weeks off) when he is home there is quite a bit of junk in the house because he has no desire to eat healthy what-so-ever.

Thank you so much for your input.

michellehumfress wrote: »

It's nice to hear another person is using Jamie Eason also. So far I'm enjoying it. I have been eating about 1300 calories a day until my cruise and working out. How much have you lost since working out with Jamie.?