The food we consume extends beyond mere sustenance, influencing our physical and mental well-being. The choices you make in your dietary habits can affect your energy levels, mood, and even cognitive performance. 4improve helps you to set and achieve goals relating to diet, meditation, exercise, and trackers to embrace a more holistic lifestyle. Its inbuilt meal planner enables you to make mindful dietary choices that resonate across all areas of your life, ultimately contributing to a more balanced and healthy way of living.
Benefits Of Meal Planning
Make Healthier Choices
When you select your meals ahead of time, you can prioritise nutritional choices, ensuring your diet is balanced and wholesome. If you have increased your training schedule, adjustments to the amount of carbohydrates and protein you consume can be easily implemented. Preparing snacks with our meal planner also helps you to avoid making unhealthy choices between meals.
Save Time
Setting aside time once or twice a week to pre-make food for the following days reduces time spent in the kitchen. Streamline your food prep process by preparing key ingredients in bulk and batch cooking tasty dishes!
Save Money
Planning meals can save you money in many ways. Selecting affordable recipes, avoiding over buying and doing a quick kitchen inventory before shopping all help to reduce your food budget. When your meals are prepared, you are also less likely to order a takeaway or eat out.
Try New Things
A study of 2000 Brits revealed that 59% cooked the same meals, rotating them throughout the week. Lack of time, budget constraints, and cooking proficiency were given as reasons for the monotonous dietary habits. The 4improve meal planner allows you to embrace variety whilst providing a solution to these three challenges - easy-to-follow, affordable recipes that can be prepared in advance.
Learn Portion Control
Following recipes can help you to sensibly portion meals. Eating the right amount of food for your build and activity level helps to support your weight goals, whether you’re trying to gain, maintain or lose weight.
Lower Food Waste
Planning meals with ingredients that can be used across several dishes minimises food waste. A shopping list that itemises exactly what you need for the week ahead also helps you to avoid impulse or unnecessary buys.
How To Use The 4improve Meal Planner
1. Browse 500+ recipes on the 4improve app. Dishes are split into 10 helpful categories - breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, beverages, salads and snacks, pre-workout, post-workout, high protein, and low calorie - and can also be filtered by ingredients.
2. Add recipes to your meal planner, selecting the date and time. Use the repeat option to save time inputting each dish. Change the number of servings to automatically adjust the quantity of ingredients.
3. View upcoming meal plans for an overview of your diet and compile your shopping list.
If you’re new to meal prep, we recommend that you start by making small changes. Focus on either breakfast, lunch or dinner for the first couple of weeks rather than attempting to restructure your entire diet. This achievable adjustment will quickly become part of your routine, laying the foundation for a more comprehensive and enduring commitment to healthier eating habits.
Download 4improve Today
4improve is the world’s first 360° lifestyle app, integrating meditation, exercise, nutrition, and trackers for water intake, steps, and calories. Our unique approach is centred around making long-lasting health habits through the implementation of small, achievable targets.
Rather than advocating for a drastic lifestyle overhaul, or setting numerous goals simultaneously, 4improve encourages a gradual and sustainable transformation. By focusing on manageable adjustments, such as using our meal planner to start your day with a healthy breakfast, the app empowers you to incorporate wellness practices into your daily life. These changes become long-term and integral to your overall health and happiness.
Thousands of others are embracing holistic living and improving their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Download from the App Store or Google Play and make 4improve your holistic health companion.