Meal Plans

The Nutrition Guide provided with Beachbody Insanity is insane. It does focus on eating 5 small, well balanced meals throughout the day and they also provide 100 - 200 calorie food blocks to add on to your meals if you need calories.

My caloric needs being as high as 3300 calories leads to meals that are 500+ in calories. My thoughts were: 1) there are too many recipes 2) I don't have time to cook all this as I work 9 hours a day 3) I am going to be skipping meals for sure.

Regardless, I tried making a menu for myself.

Meal 1: Breakfast 08:00am 500 cal
Pro-Oatmeal
1-1/3 cup oatmeal
1-1/2 scoop protein
2-1/2 tablespoon chopped almonds
1 cup fresh/frozen berries
1/4 cup of skim milk

Meal 2: Morning Snack 10:00am 500 cal
Yogurt Bowl
1-1/2 nonfat plain yogurt
2 Tbsp of dried craisins
3 TBsp of almonds
1 apple

Meal 3: Lunch 12:00pm 500 cal
Grilled chicken Salad
3 oz of grilled chicken breast
3 cups of mixed dark greens
1/2 apple chopped
1 tbs of almonds
cucumber, sliced

OR
Lean burger
whole wheat english muffin
4oz extra lean ground beef
1 slice of reduced fat cheese
1 cup of greens

OR
3/4 whole wheat pasta
1 cup mixed steam vegetables
1/3 cup of feta cheese
3 oz of diced grilled chicken

Meal 4: Afternoon Snack 03:00pm 500 cal
Protein Pizza Muffin
1 whole grain English muffin
1/3 cup mozarella
1 cup broccoli
1 orange

Meal 5: Preworkout 05:30pm 300 cal
1 protein bar

Workout: 6:00pm

Meal 6: Postworkout 7:00pm 200 calories
1 protein scoop
1 cup 1% milk

Meal 7: Dinner 08:00pm 700 cal
Brown Rice Bowl
2/3 cup cooked brown rice
4oz chicken
1 cup peas
1 slice of wheat toast with 1 oz turkey and 1 oz reduced fat cheese

Meal 8: Night Snack 10:00pm 200 cal
1/2 cup of oatmeal

However, in the end I just couldn't cook all this stuff. I did cook wheat pasta and baked chicken and burger. I also did prepare the breakfasts suggested (these are the easiest recipes), but it is just way too much cooking.

What I did was I did mass cooking and I just pretty much have the same food for a few days. I think as long as you have enough calories and protein in your meals you will be fine (and low fat). We'll see how it goes.