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Weight maintenance, and weight loss, can be achieved through a balanced diet made up of ingredients that come together to meet both nutritional and caloric demands. In the process of creating a perfectly balanced daily diet, I quickly discovered that compiling this information involved a significant amount of time, research, energy, and patience. I wondered if there was a tool or book to help people like myself map everything out. Surprisingly, there wasn’t. And this is how the idea for The Complete Plate was conceived.

What Is The Complete Plate?

The Complete Plate attempts to bridge the gap between nutrition and flavor. It provides 30 daily meal plans for caloric requirements of 1500, 2000, and 2500 calories per day. Each day is perfectly balanced to provide 100% of your micro- and macronutrient needs, based on current Dietary Reference Intake (dri) values.

How It Works

The Complete Plate is not a program or a diet. It is a lifestyle made up of three components: nutrition, meal planning, and cooking. Together, these three elements create a union of food wellness and healthy eating habits.

the basics

Food wellness is a term we created to describe the ideal state for making healthy eating habits a part of your busy day-to-day life. The hope is that when food wellness is achieved, your mind and body will be able to perform at peak performance. But if one of the three components is missing, it is almost impossible to establish sustainable healthy eating habits and achieve food wellness.

Nutrition is the fuel you put into your body, and it impacts performance and mood. With the overwhelming amount of unscientifically based nutrition information available, it can be difficult to discern what is true and what is trendy. This is why having insight into sound nutritional information is a key foundation for obtaining food wellness.

Organized meal planning is essential for successfully executing and maintaining healthy eating habits. Meal planning reduces stress, saves money, and helps prevent consuming calorie-dense convenience foods.

Cooking your meals helps foster healthy eating habits. You may be incredibly organized and have immense nutritional insight, but you need to get all that wonderful knowledge onto a plate.