#53, The 24 Hour Plan and How it Can Save Your Waistline

This is such a huge pain point for almost every single lady I work with. You probably feel the same way. You know exactly how to eat to support your body, but there is a huge disconnect between that knowledge and the actual follow-through that would make you successful and have you losing that extra weight. 

Today I want to walk you through how to make and successfully follow a 24 hour plan. This simple habit is a life-coach hack that has helped thousands upon thousands of women get results. 

A 24 hour plan is a written list of what you will eat and when. 

First I’ll tell you how to make it, then we’ll discuss how to stick to it. 

Making a 24 hour plan. 

1. Pick a time of day that you have low amounts of stress, cravings, or desires for food. For example:
   First thing in the morning.
   Before you go to bed. 
2. In an easy-access location like your planner or notes app on your phone, start a list of what you will eat. Write down what you will eat and when. This might look like, “Breakfast: Burrito, Lunch: Salad with chicken, Snack: Trail mix,  Supper: Lasagna and steamed Broccoli” Don’t worry about quantities. Most ladies' eating issues come from spontaneous and reactive eating, not the quantity of the food they planned.
3. Make this plan reasonable. You don’t want to ridiculously restrictive. For example, if you tend to try and eat only salads and walnuts, but then find yourself binging on sweets in the afternoon, purposefully plan to have and completely enjoy one candy bar in the afternoon. Planning and portioning those treats really helps. Plus, follow through is KEY.

Sticking to your plan.

1. Decide in advance that you will say no to anything off your plan. 
2. Prepare a phrase that helps your brain switch from reactive mode, to higher function thinking such as, “We can always have that tomorrow.” or “Our plan is great, we don’t need to torture ourselves by agonizing over everything else.”
3. The more you do it, the less negotiating or arguing that will happen in the toddler part of your brain. Habits are powerful. 

What are the benefits of a 24 hour plan?

• Easily track what you ate and how it made you feel.
• Learn from your patterns of cravings and desires.
• Force yourself to deal with life in a real way that actually guides healing. 
• Lose weight and stay healthy. 
• Less decisions to make at times that you are stressed or upset. 

Next week, I’ll be discussing the benefits of making a weekly meal plan which can make this 24 hour plan even easier. 

Don’t forget to sign up for that meal planning webinar. It’s free and it might just give you the leg-up on your health goals that you have been needing all along. 

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