How the fuck do I meal plan /fit/

No idea. I've been trying to figure it out for years but am too autismal so I just eat whenever I want.

t. 5'8" and 102 lbs skelly walking himself to death because too imcompetent for meal/workout planning

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with a pen and paper, OP

>>38922360
Look at what you typically eat in a day, plug it into a tracker like MFP, see where you need to go(ie. decrease sugar/salt, increase protein/fat are common issues), and figure out what kind of foods you like that will be able to make up the difference. Make some more complicated foods on the weekend and easier foods as you go along.

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>>38922377
saved thnx

>>38922448
no, thank u

>planning meals
you just find out the amount of calories you need, and make sure you're hitting that and getting enough protein. the rest is literally what the fuck ever unless you're some 70 year old who can't digest shit.

>>38922393
>>38922598
How am I supposed to know how many calories are in everything I eat?

>>38922757
there's an app called myfitnesspal, you basically log every single thing you eat. it's daunting and I had an internal struggle with doing it for 2 months. even made a thread talking about how fucking stupidly time consuming that'd be when I had just started out, but yeah you get used to it.

>>38922757
use MFP

>>38922779
>>38922783
so if I make spaghetti bolognese I need to put each individual ingredient into the app to see how many calories I've eaten?

>>38922877
you should weigh everything and put log them before making the food. make it like a step 1 of the food preparation. the app is pretty widely used and its database is insane and it has a barcode reader, so you can pretty much scan all ingeridents and put in the weight and you're set

>>38922877
Yeah, my advice is buy a cheap $20 food scale, weigh out the spaghetti, cook
weigh/measure out the sauce
weigh out the meat
Pretty much every brand you could imagine is in there, and thanks to the recents tab any food you eat a lot will always be there. Plus you can add recipes so if you make the same meal over and over you only need to plug in the food once.

>>38922877
If it's worth it to you the few minutes out of your day to log everything ends up being NOTHING

>>38922448
Sleep tight snug smug

Fuck meal planning. I just buy a bunch of ham and eat it from the fridge cold when I wanna eat.

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Nail down your everyday staples first. Bowl of OATZ when you wake up, maybe a morning shake if that's your style, your FOUR SCOOPS CMON of whey post workout, quark/tvorog/Greek yoghurt at the end of the day for dat dere casein, whatever you know is good for you to have frequently.

Then fill in your remaining macros and vitamins from there.

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Use a eat this much or fit meal plan app. They give you a grocery list, a diet that's different based on your goals and all the different things you need to eat. Literally can be done by a child.

>>38924584
is post work out protein really a th ing? i always eat after a workout but am not consistent about my scoops