In a past life I paid a chap to do a meal plan for me, the aim? Be ripped for our holiday to Fuerteventura! This led to me eating 7 meals a day for 5 months which sounds great on paper but these were the same 7 meals, every day. Let that sink in; Salmon, Chicken, Greek Yoghurt and Steak every day it cost me a bloody fortune and if I ever see one of Aldis Salmon pieces again it’s too soon. Long story short I failed to achieve my goals, the diet was just too strict, there was no flexibility at all. What about if I wanted to go out with friends or take Becki out for dinner? God forbid go to the cinema and have nachos! Because of that rigid approach when I did fall off and binge I really, really binged! I always spout on about how the best diet is one that you can stick to and that just was not a good diet.

I’m already speaking about Flexible Dieting before but I wanted to show you what flexible dieting actually looked like, how you could still live your life and lose weight…

So here we have Denise. After chatting with Denise about her daily habits and taking into consideration her height, weight, and age we know that to put her in a Calorie Deficit she can take in 1,600 calories a day or 11,200 a week. Here are three ways Denise could use her calories and maintain being in a deficit and therefore lose weight.

Absolute Machine

Total Calories consumed = 11,200

Weekend Warrior

Total Calories consumed = 11,200

The Booty Pump

                       Lift Weights                                             Lift Weights                       Lift Weights

Total Calories consumed = 11,200

The possibilities are endless, like Denise you make the calories work for you and never the other way around! Stop having your curly wurly and grapes at night (if you know what that means, you know ;)) and give yourself a chance at succeeding.