How To Prepare The Right Nutrition Program For Yourself

We all know training is a big part of getting into shape and gaining better health, but even more important is nutrition. This is usually the missing link that keeps individuals from reaching their goal. It takes both training and nutrition to effectively reach your goals, but by fine tuning your nutrition program, you will reach your goals more quickly.

Dr. Chris Mohr of Meal Plans 101 to let him explain just how easy it is to reach your nutritional goals.

He and Jayson Hunter, RD, CSCS have designed a piece of nutritional software along with that makes it absolutely simple to create simple, yet effective meal plans.

How important is having a meal plan to follow in regards to nutrition compliance?

It’s just as important as having driving directions if you don’t know where you’re going. Having a nutrition plan is the map to get you where you want to go. Or, for the more technologically sounds folks, the meal plan is the GPS system for improving compliance. I don’t know how to get to Fargo North Dakota—but if I had to drive there, I would pull out a map and write my directions. The same is true for nutrition—most folks know what they need to do to lose fat or gain muscle, but they don’t have the specific directions to get there.

What do you think are the biggest barriers to following a good nutrition program?

First is not planning. Like I described above, you need to plan the best way to reach your destination—in this case, the destination may be fat loss or gaining lean body mass. Meal Plans 101 does the planning for you. If you fail to plan, plan to fail. Why struggle any longer; use the properly designed tools to help you reach your goals.

Second, is watching your portions. Oatmeal is fantastic for you, but sitting down every day to 2-3 cups of oatmeal per meal might be a bit much. Wouldn’t it be nice, though, to know just how much a portion size should actually be? We did that research for you, and it’s all in the software.

Do you have to be a nutrition expert to know how to eat healthy? How hard is it to create an effective meal plan that will allow someone to lose fat or gain muscle?

Nutrition experts are of course beneficial—I’d be knocking myself and Jayson down if I didn’t think they were. But we can’t be there with every single person who wants a simple meal plan put together for them and, quite frankly, it isn’t cheap to work with us individually. This software isn’t meant to replace the advice of a qualified nutrition professional, what it’s meant to do is provide you with science based tools, such as specific formulas (they are behind the scenes, so you don’t have to get involved with them) to tell you how many calories to eat for your goals, along with providing you the ability to choose your food preferences, so you don’t have a cookie cutter program, but instead a unique, proprietary meal plan that fits YOU!

You have mentioned your software. What is it exactly and how can it make the lives of my readers easier?

Simply put—it allows folks to plug in specific values they get from clients or from themselves and it will spit out your specific nutritional needs to achieve those goals. It will then give you the breakdown of just how much of each food group you should be eating, but you are able to customize it to your food choices!! It’s takes just a few minutes to get the grasp of this and then it’s just another tool to help you reach your health and physical goals,

One last question. How important is it to adjust your carbohydrates when it comes to weight loss?

This is the million dollar question. Some research supports a modified carbohydrate diet for successful weight loss, while others suggest a lower fat nutrition plan. The key is nutrient quality and the answer is probably somewhere in the middle. The right types of carbohydrates are excellent. Similarly, healthy fats are crucial, so drastically restricting one or another is not the best way to go about it, in my opinion. And that’s why you have the ability to choose both in the food options under each category.

Thank you for your time today. If you feel your nutrition is the missing link, then check out Meal Plans 101 to find out just how easy it is to get your nutrition on track. Don’t leave your nutrition to chance or else you may very well be wasting all that hard work you put in at the gym.