Breakfast, lunch, and dinner don’t exist anymore. Well, at least not in the world of fitness, or within more specific niches and communities in that world. Allow me to explain how I came to this conclusion. But before that, allow me to say this. I don’t plan or prep meals 99% of the time. I have been fortunate enough to always had visible abs and my eating style has always been the same. I eat like a wild animal in the way that I can go days without eating or eat 10,000 calories in one sitting. Almost anything is possible, still, take this to heart and mind.
From time to time, I’ll use My Fitness Pal to track my caloric intake. We all know that caloric surpluses and deficits are a key component to either gaining or losing weight. Depending on what you eat and how you exercise, that weight could either be fat and/or muscle. If you are fully committed and prioritize your weight-loss or weight-gain journey as more than important than enjoying what you eat, or if you don’t care what you eat, you’re going to make the most efficient progress. However, there are not so many who can maintain that dedication.
While trying to update my food log, I realized that it gives you the opportunity to log your meals into four sections a day, unless I don’t know how to use it properly. There is breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Basically, if I eat six meals a day, three have to be put together in the snacks area, so if I was to look back at that I wouldn’t necessarily know how to break those down. If I want really accurate tracking, in that case, I have to go back to pen and paper… but this is so easy! I want to only use this.
About a year ago, after professionally training for nearly eight years, I realized that I had been doing it all wrong in my initial consultation. While you want to use terminology that your aspiring or current clients can understand, you also want to facilitate societal changes that allow proper information to be passed along. For example, there isn’t necessarily anything wrong with a kipping pull-up when done properly, but you want to make sure everyone knows how it differs from a pull-up.
The same applied to meals. If we’re consistently asking people what they eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, then they’re going to think that they should be having three meals a day. A year ago I decided to change my approach and instead ask them what they had for their first, second, and third meals of the day. Four comes after three, five after four, and so on. I was trying to open the doors to eating more meals because I have found far too many individuals that don’t eat enough. Not as many as those who eat too much, but still a large number.
As we have an increasing number of individuals that want to be healthier, join me in this quest to destroy breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Instead, allowing people to know that it’s okay to eat when they should. Whether that means eat when you’re hungry, don’t eat when you’re not hungry, or eat as your coach tells you to reach your goals, it’s okay to go against the grain and fight to be hungry and fit!
If you go into settings then Diary Settings, you can change the meal name and they have 6 spaces. I have Break, Snack, Lunch, Snack, Dinner, Dessert. 😀