This is very common. People don’t realize how much opportunity for muscle growth they concede every time they miss a meal. And like you said, when you look back over a week or more in time those missed meals start to add up fast.
Realize this, once you miss a scheduled meal – just like missing a workout – it cannot be made up. You can’t go back in time. Your muscles miss a valuable growth opportunity each time a meal is skipped.
The main reason I’ve found that meals are missed is lack of discipline and planning. But the good news is – it’s easily corrected.
Plan Your Meals
- Write out a detailed schedule complete with the exact food you will eat and the exact time you will eat it. Check the meal off when you completed it.
- Review your meal schedule daily and make ending notes on both the days you complete your meals successfully and on the days you miss your meals.
- Also, write down the positive aspects of completing all your meals and also write down the negative aspects when you miss them.
- Each morning review your meal schedule and your notes from the day before.
What this is doing is reinforcing the importance of completing each meal and mapping out a detailed schedule for completing these meals. You’re making yourself accountable each day and descriptively detailing the negative effects skipping meals will have toward your progress. Over time this will build discipline and make skipping meals a thing of the past.
Tip
Make your meals easy. Supplements like Raptor-HP, VP2 Whey isolate, and VyoPro Protein Bar really give you no excuse to ever miss a meal again. They are better and more effective than whole food and eliminate the time-consuming tasks of meal preparation. Not to mention they will spark lean muscle growth much faster.
