RP Diet Coach & Meal Planner Reviews

by Mamalikeswine

I went from the templates to RPDietCoachMealPlanner about 3 months ago and loved it. Super simple to manipulate for what I needed, which as a mom of 3 under 5 is constant variation in my days/workout times/ meal times. Then they forced an update on me. The update was bugged and wouldn’t let me go to a fat loss template from maintenance even though I have more than 70lbs to lose, then the sent another update that supposedly fixed it. I haven’t tried yet bc my maintenance has me in a deficit right now and I will most likely lose here, but it’s weird to be cutting in maintenance. Anyway my main problem with this update is how much of a pain it is to manipulate your daily changes. I suppose it’s great for people who always get up at the same time, always workout at the same time, etc but for people with varied schedules it’s cumbersome to change daily variances and I have found myself doing more of if it fits in your macros style dieting via the rp app just so I don’t have to try to figure out how to change my workout/sleep time just right so it doesn’t mess up my macros. If this isn’t sorted I’m going back to the templates which is a shame because I really liked how RPDietCoachMealPlanner operated in regards to inputting foods and meal time reminders. But realistically if it’s too styled to be functional, I can’t justify the cost.

by Enoughalreadygivemeacluejeezus

The macro calculation in RPDietCoachMealPlanner is a great thing. As someone who is experienced with tracking and calculation, I think RPDietCoachMealPlanner does a good job. I also like that I have weigh-in reminders. The reminder to eat is a great feature for new macro users, but beyond stacking carbs around your workout, I feel like the four hour gap between most meals is just a little overly simplified. Personally, I’m not a late eater (I’m old, 9:15 is late for me).

Now, the user ability. All of the above mentioned are great features. The biggest issue with RPDietCoachMealPlanner is the sliding bar meal tracking. It provides for no wiggle room. What if you didn’t realize you were running out of chicken and had to substitute something that couldn’t possibly fit your protein/fat ratio for that meal? It doesn’t really allow for these instances. Furthermore, it feels like the sliding bar is meant to be fancier and pull away from tradition meal trackers like MyFitnessPal. Unfortunately, it’s trying to fix what isn’t broken. The frustration of figuring out how to use RPDietCoachMealPlanner to track meals could kill a newbie’s confidence. Just give me a barcode scanner and let me figure the fit life out.

by Yamancoolfosho

RPDietCoachMealPlanner gets results if uses strictly, that’s where I give it most of its stars. That said, pen and paper gets you there too if you’re compliant. RPDietCoachMealPlanner leaves a lot to be desired in terms of use ability. Once you end a diet phase you can’t see history. If you lock in next week’s macros incorrectly too bad, that’s your macros for the whole next week. I get not wanting people to adjust daily but at least on maintenance the user could get more control. Also, at least on maintenance, it would be cool if the user could control a little bit of the fat/carb split, like go a little heavier on one or the other based on preference. Food database is weak and it is unclear if the erroneous errors ever get cleaned up. I created a ton of customs that aren’t searchable that is now just a long ugly list. When I add new products with images and all it is unclear if they ever get added to the database. When copying a meal be careful when you edit, I’ve accidentally edited the previous (copy from) meal instead of the new meal several times. There are several more examples. Some of the stuff is small, some big, some hard to fix, some easy. From the update history it doesn’t look like they put a lot of effort into improving RPDietCoachMealPlanner , really just maintaining it. Would be nice to see some small but impactful updates. Tons of potential here.

by Not Gonna Pay You

RPDietCoachMealPlanner is good in the sense that it’s easy to track your macros with the endless amounts of food options to plug in to RPDietCoachMealPlanner , as well as including nutrition info for some items that aren’t listed. The downside of RPDietCoachMealPlanner is it doesn’t replace having a diet coach in person tracking your progress. The first couple weeks I started I dropped 7 lbs which is attributed to cleaner eating and less bloating. My weight stayed pretty consistent afterward with minimal movement downward on the scale but my body composition started to form nicely. Due to not losing weight, RPDietCoachMealPlanner recommended I reduce my nutrients. I did start to lose weight but I started to feel a little flat. Eventually I plateaued on my weight again and it recommended to reduce nutrients. I asked a friend who did amateur bodybuilding and was told my fats and carbs were way too low for the daily activity I did. He did say the protein was on point but I need to bump everything else up. It’s a great tool to track your protein but I think tracking your progress strictly in the scale can be a little frustrating. I feel for some people RPDietCoachMealPlanner in conjunction with working with a nutritionist is amazing, but by itself can be a challenge.

by Vgujjgftyu

The templates were hard to follow based on the “I didn’t bother to read the instructions” questions on FB. But if one reads the instructions and the free papers on why rp works and the way it is, the customer actually learns what’s effective and how to make the rules fit their life. With that knowledge and templates I could customize RP to fit my goals and life. RPDietCoachMealPlanner dumbs down the whole process. The user doesn’t have to learn anything about nutrition. But in the process of making it so simple, it has lost all flexibility. It fits the uber-athelete doing intense training, and that’s it.

Two minor glitches in the software itself. In its attempt to be super helpful in designing compliant meals it comes up with stupid quantities like 3.4 whole eggs and 4.3 strips of bacon. Second, the meal save function doesn’t work. I can create a compliant breakfast of two eggs, half strip bacon, 1 thin slice killer bread, and 1/2Tb jam, supplemented with 3/4 scoop of protein in water. I ask it to save that food combo as “eggs and toast.” Next week I try to populate my meal plan with “eggs and toast” and it puts all the foods in, but at stupid ratios; not the ones I saved.

All in all RPDietCoachMealPlanner is only slightly better than using the paper (pdf) templates and any random calorie counter.

by Me In FL

RPDietCoachMealPlanner is awesome! It’s very user friendly. And as someone who has used MyFitnessPal and WW app, this has by far been the easiest for me to stick with. I’m never hungry and I’m eating way more food than ever... and I’m down 4.5lbs in 10 days! Which for me is a big deal, because I don’t have much to lose, just wanted to lean up a bit. I’m also feeling very energized in the gym, able to move through CrossFit workouts a little easier. I’ve never timed my eating, just ate when I felt hungry, but being on this plan has really helped me see the importance of it. I went with 4 stars because it would be nice to add custom foods, but having a list with so many options has really helped me think less about what to make and eat. It forces me to think outside my comfort zone and eat foods I don’t immediately think of. I’ve counted macros before, but I would tend to have a tiny breakfast and use all my carbs at dinner 😂 Having RPDietCoachMealPlanner space out my macros for me and reminding me when to eat has been a game changer!! All around, great app! Highly recommend!

by Me Cairo

RPDietCoachMealPlanner is great in every way. I’m a data scientist and I like that it adapts as I give it my weight feedback. Perhaps there’s a way to provide fitness inputs like periodic blood tests or a basic exercise standard (mini-Murph time etc)...Even if exercise isn’t completely linked, it’d be fun to have all in one place (you might add a place to indicate energy level at the end of the day for those that like)

My only complaint is that it doesn’t have a ton of foods to enter (no bacon, OJ) and less education (doesn’t salt matter? Fiber? Does Kraft count as cheese (is it similar to real cheese or must I go to the deli counter to be ON the diet) What about coffee) in fact there is no where to input any kind of drink (does everyone only drink water all the time? Tea?).

Ideally I should be able to create an entree with ingredients and add that while bundle for simplicity (like Quiche) seems like making a bundle labeled a Quiche would be technically simple. And creating a subset of foods highlighted as not particularly recommended like V8 or a croissant (but available) would be better than just blanking the meal. Then hitting the meal wouldn’t necessarily have to be binary but continuous (you’d 90% hit your lunch because your Philly Cheesesteak had Cheeze Whiz, rather than Provilone)

by Malus128

It works great, makes things so easy, great recommendations on how much to eat. I have 2 requests though.
1) I bulk prepare my meals, and I’m not super super picky about macros, I’m not a competitor, just getting healthy. My request is an option to make all the meals divided equally. I understand there’s a benefit for having more carbs at a certain time of day care another, but I don’t really need to get that in depth. I’d like to see an option to automatically split up all of your macros evenly throughout your number of meals. I do it manually now but automatic would be good.
2) I don’t know if this is actually possible but if you could find a way to link to health apps that would be great. If I could link RPDietCoachMealPlanner to my apple health app and my whoop app and they all communicated to base my macro needs off of how much I actually do instead of it being subjective about how active you are. “I’m active 6 days a week” - walks 2000 steps 6 days a week.
Either way RPDietCoachMealPlanner has already made losing fat through diet alone immensely easier. Great job, can’t wait for an app that does this for workouts.

by JennnnnnnnnnnniiiiiiiB

I love this diet program, I’ve used it many times over the past 6 years (before and after RPDietCoachMealPlanner ) for many successful cut and maintenance phases. It has always helped me be extremely successful with improving performance, body composition, and weight loss. I’ve used RPDietCoachMealPlanner for 2 cuts in the past year or so, and then took a macro counting hiatus over the past 9 months. I am ready for another cut phase via the RP app I have to say that the sleep/recurring days feature is extremely annoying. It adds a lot of complexity to setting up each week and seems completely unnecessary. It’s very frustrating for someone like me who doesn’t have a set schedule each week (bedside nurse). It is discouraging me from wanting to use RPDietCoachMealPlanner for my cut because it’s taking so much of my energy and time to change my daily schedule each week. That’s why I am giving a 4/5 rating. It would be 5/5 if the sleep feature was easier and if the recurring day feature could be turned off. I liked RPDietCoachMealPlanner much better before this feature.

by VLK0212

I was looking for an app to track my meals. MyFitnessPal was awesome 10 years ago, but over time there have been so many added versions of food that finding the accurate version is difficult. This is a meal planner. You cannot log what you actually ate. RPDietCoachMealPlanner wants me to eat 40g of protein at bedtime. I’m not doing that. I won’t fall asleep with that food on my stomach. I contacted the company and there is no way around that. This isn’t what I was looking for. I’m glad they offered a 2 week trial so I could figure that out before investing. If you want to see that they suggest 30g of protein for lunch and then a list of ways to get 30g of protein and the appropriate portion size, this is RPDietCoachMealPlanner for you. If you’re looking to hold yourself accountable, keep looking. This isn’t the program for you.

***UPDATE***
First... these people reply for sure! They are very responsive. Cannot day enough for how awesome they are about that. I’m still struggling with believing this will be a match for me, but my friend got her to give her more realistic macros. The game is you have to lie to RPDietCoachMealPlanner to compensate for unpredictable things. Example: I wake up early because I take a medicine that requires I not eat for an hour after. I need to tell it I’m waking up when I’m eligible to eat. I’m going to set up another diet and give it another try. 😊 And will try Casein before bedtime. Thanks!

by Cas Nos

I think RPDietCoachMealPlanner is genius and I would give it 4.5 stars if I could. There are a few things I wish it could do. If you change something simple about a day like workout time or time you awakened, I wish it didn’t have to delete all the planned meals. I’m not IT savvy but it seems like an easy fix to have a choice to keep the existing meals. I love how it has the foods listed and you just choose them and it adjusts amounts to make macros work. The way it adapts weekly based on feedback is amazing. I just started this week but already see some body changes. Thank you, RP!
Update-week 3 and down 3lbs. The physique changes are more than the weight seems to indicate. It works!!!
I’m a physician on call and sometimes I get to workout when I thought I couldn’t or I have to stay at work when I had planned to workout. It’d be great if RPDietCoachMealPlanner left your meals in place that’d you’d already eaten and adjust the rest of the day if you made the change to workout or not with the rest of your meals. Just give the macros missed since you were able to train or take macros since you were not able to train.

by DJTShot

Okay, so I’ve tried RP Diet three times. This being the third. The first two times I had been using Cron-O-Meter previously and liked how I could see the overall focus of the day. Also I could see how each food entry had protein, fat, or carbs. So using RP initially was frustrating—I didn’t get how it worked. What’s more is that when I tried it out it had me eating so much the first week that I thought all hope was lost and it was a waste. Well, third time’s the charm… I didn’t have as much weight to lose this time thankfully (I had lost 25 lbs using Cron-O-Meter in 2020), so I only had 10 lbs to lose and sticking to RPDietCoachMealPlanner I lost the 10 lbs with ease and looked my fittest at my lowest weight. I’m now on a post-fat loss maintenance phase and the muscle retention is a whole different feel physically than I have felt before. I’m an RP convert at this point and will likely shift my Cron-O-Meter subscription as the maintenance nutrition has been a game changer for me.

by Dollofchina

I purchase the fat loss template first and used it for a couple years, I had good results. I saved it on my phone like an app so I could easily access it but, after watching the IG transformation page, the people who used RPDietCoachMealPlanner seemed to have a little more advantage, so I decided to try it, glad I did. First week was awesome down almost 3 lbs. that never happened with the template. The meal check-ins, the weigh-ins, the roll over, and weekly reviews make me feel accountable and conscious about my focus daily. I’m literally pushed by the push notifications. The program is worth every penny. RPDietCoachMealPlanner changed the game for me. Planning my meals don’t feel like a chore anymore. I enjoy it. The food lists allow me to also so what I have in the fridge or pantry that I can use without having to run to the store as much. Ok, done typing. I want to say thanks RP but felt a little commercially. But it’s clear that A LOT of thought went into the step by step processes for your athletes and customers! So, thank you!

by Big Gamers

This is by far the best macro app that I’ve come across. Plus they have a terrific community, podcast, and support team to aid in achieving your goals.

Update Request: After reading many books about achieving goals, they all recommend ditching the phone. I’ve taken this to heart, and try very hard to stay off my phone especially when I’m around my kids. One way I’ve found success in this is to have an Apple Watch. I can still be connected by receiving important text messages, but I won’t get caught scrolling or staring at a screen. Here is the request, when the meal prompts come up, did you eat your 12:00 meal? It would be so great if the watch allowed me to select the option - at macros, over macros, etc. It would make keeping my meals up to date so much easier since I’m really trying not to have my phone nearby. Maybe I’m the lone weirdo in this, but I think it would be a terrific update. Thanks for your commitment to helping others reach their fitness goals!!!

by Steve Fallon

I’ve been using RP products since around 2015. I started with the original Renaissance Periodization book where I used the principles to develop my own diet. I was somewhat successful, but found I needed some more guidance and accountability. I was fortunate enough to afford 1:1 coaching for several years where I had several successful cuts and bulks. After learning a ton and seeing great results I decided late 2021 that it was time to start venturing back off on my own. However, I still needed the accountability. So I decided to give RPDietCoachMealPlanner a try

I honestly wasn’t sure I’d like it since I got use to a more pen/paper approach and doing math to meet my macros. I ran a maintenance diet through the holidays and have loved it. The barcode scanner and restaurant options allowed me a ton of flexibility while navigating the the holidays. The check ins offered a good mix of accountability of having to hit my macros, but also the autonomy to go against the AI recommendations if I felt it was appropriate. With the help of RPDietCoachMealPlanner I was able to successfully maintain my weight through the holidays while still enjoying good food/drinks with friends and family.

Now that the holidays are ended I am trying my first cut to be part of the RP Diet Challenge for 2022. While I may not win the contest, I know my diet will be a success if I’m just honest with RPDietCoachMealPlanner and do what it tells me.

by Dawson_mama

Long story short, I’m nearly 40, a homeschooling mom of 3 and obese for most of my life. Been on this journey for 8 years now learning how to deal with my physical and emotional food addictions. Also learning how to develop discipline and consistency in exercise. Recently started training with a trainer but had trouble losing weight even though I’m gaining strength. Been on the RP diet for 2 weeks and lost 5.5 lbs!! Love how easy it is to meal plan and the reminders to eat! Makes it so easy to get the needed macros and calorie deficit all while cooking for my family of 5 and keeping house and homeschooling among other things. Wish RPDietCoachMealPlanner had more marketing toward my demographic but I’m so thankful I found it. Wasn’t sure it would work for me because I felt it was geared toward the performance athlete which I am not! But I gave it a try because I understood the science behind it and thought it should work for me too! So glad I did! Gonna keep on RPDietCoachMealPlanner plan because it is so helpful and effective! Reasonable price too for all the intuitive design! Thanks RP!

by Wheresmabelt

If you needed evidence that the world will be taken over by an AI system like Skynet, RPDietCoachMealPlanner would be perfect. I’ve been following RP for around 6 years now, starting with 1 on 1 coaching. I just finished a 3 month fat loss phase with the Diet Coach app and it was the easiest cut ever, no offense to my coach Alex. I mean, of course if Alex would tell me how many grams of something I needed to eat to hit my macros, then that would be even easier than RPDietCoachMealPlanner but he doesn’t have time for that.
Can you imagine me texting him, “Hey, so remember how I said I was going to eat some bread at 2 PM after my workout? Well, now I’m working out later and going to eat rice instead afterward. How many grams of rice do I need? Oh and how much fat is there in salmon? I’m eating that instead of lean beef.” He’d block me after a week.
Anyway, this is such a useful app. I’m starting a muscle gain phase so hopefully it’ll be just as easy at the fat loss. RP has some of the best customer service around so if you have any questions/trouble, don’t hesitate to reach out to them.

by Matt Turnr Fitness

Let me start by saying—this is not a calorie counter. If you’re goal is to reach a set number of macros whether it may be for weightloss, maintenance, or weight gain this is hands down the best app I’ve come across. I recommend RPDietCoachMealPlanner to all my clients, even if they’re not able to meet their macros. The way it recommends healthy food first and helps you step by step set goals, create balance meals and such really takes the stress off me as a personal trainer without a nutrition partner. I’ve been using RPDietCoachMealPlanner for roughly 7 months now and have nothing but good stuff to say about it. I will easily drop any other subscription I have to make sure that I keep the RP Diet App on my phone no questions asked. If you’re serious about your fitness RPDietCoachMealPlanner is a must have for your arsenal.

The only thing I wish is that it would still give you the total calories you intake for days that you might miss your macros you can still get in the right calories. But RPDietCoachMealPlanner is actively always being improved so I’m sure something like that will come in the future.

by H.Allison

I wish I’d known sooner that I could be using an app to track my macros rather than counting my calories!! I love RPDietCoachMealPlanner because it makes it easy. Other apps I’ve tried I have to enter what I’m deciding to eat, and when I have been making the best choices it’s tough. RPDietCoachMealPlanner reminds you when it’s time to eat and it gives a list of foods available for your macros. I usually compare the list to what’s available and decide my meals from there. The ones I enjoy I save! It makes meal prepping, shopping, and eating so much less of a chore! I have made more progress in ONE WEEK!!(Not exaggerating) with RPDietCoachMealPlanner than I have in literal MONTHS!! Idk about you but I find myself getting into a pattern where if the scales not moving at the pace I want I tend to want to throw in the towel. When I see progress it helps to push me along. If you’re at a plateau in your fitness/health journey and need to make some adjustments I HIGHLY recommend RPDietCoachMealPlanner!! Be consistent. Be committed to your goals and yourself. Use RPDietCoachMealPlanner as a tool to help you along the way, and you will be successful!

by TrevCali

I’m not into CrossFit, but I have a home gym and do beach body workouts as well as free training. RPDietCoachMealPlanner had me skeptical at first, my wife showed it to me a initially and I thought it was silly, boy was I wrong. I gave it a shot for a week to see if these MASSIVE meals it was giving me would actually help me lose the lbs. Truth be told, didn’t lose weight until day 3. Then something happened, perhaps metabolically? I started to shed weight daily... I haven’t reached a plateau where progression has slowed yet. RPDietCoachMealPlanner monitors your weight loss, adjusts macros, and keeps you on track. I’m down 10 lbs after 3 weeks and loving it. I have it set to 0 workouts despite working out 4-5 times a week, and daily walks, probably should be using the workout function but I like the freedom of working out whenever I want instead of scheduling it, that’s just me though. I am pretty sure if I can keep my self control, which is improving, I can be at my goal weight in less that 3 months. Then it is time to slap on some muscle and turn into a monster meat hog! Just kidding, I want a lean frame and to just be healthy for my kids. Calories are a thing of the past, watch those macros and enjoy your food! Easy as scanning your favorite stuff and making a meal that suits you.

by BrentwoodBitch

I purchased a year of the RP Diet App as I want to learn how to do macros and lost some weight. I did the trial just to learn and continued adding foods causally for a while with the mindset that I would start my actual diet as soon as my kids went back to school when I’d have more time to dedicate to planning meals religiously as the diet requires for success. So the day came last Monday and I went to end my current “diet” that I was on for a few weeks where I was learning the ropes and went to restart the actual diet and RPDietCoachMealPlanner would not allow me (it gave no warning that I’d be locked out of the fat loss diet). It insisted I need 1:1 coaching and had to contact RP which I did and explained via email. They got back to me and told me to hold tight till the next version came out thus delaying my diet, so I did. I have now waited 5 days and the new version is out (.4) and the error is not fixed and it still will not let me start a fat loss diet which is pretty frustrating after I was motivated, paid $149, and had it planned out and then was told it would be fixed and it’s not. So I’m still here waiting just playing with the incorrect maintenance diet till someone at RP helps me.

by DodgersBabg!

I’m a big fan of RP’s books so I decided to try out their RP Diet App after losing 120lbs and being stuck. I thought for sure this would help me get over this stage of being forever stuck. Of course, I started with the 14 day trial, and after my first week I was gaining weight. Perhaps I did it wrong, but it’s hard to do it wrong when it is telling you when to eat and how much to eat. I felt like I was always eating, even when I was hungry and the portions for protein were so large. I started off at 228 and by the week marker I was 233, and that’s disheartening, to say the least.

As for tips on how RPDietCoachMealPlanner could improve, I would just say the scanning isn’t perfect. For example, the rotisserie chicken from Costco if you’re eating just the breast, without skin, the only fat it has is what is running through it and it doesn’t reflect that. I also think it doesn’t workout that you can save a meal being under macros but not over. For example, if overall my macros are good but I’m over by 1g with my carbs or fat, it will not let me save it. It would be more accurate to allow to be over macros, equally as you allow for it to be under, and RPDietCoachMealPlanner have a better grasp for what you’re putting into your body to better modify.

Overall, I would use RPDietCoachMealPlanner for maintenance or muscle building, and perhaps in the future after I drop some good weight, I can try them again for fat loss.

by Pleaseonthekeys

RPDietCoachMealPlanner is fantastic. I love the push notifications for meals and the ability to create them and track macros. Beyond the templates, I also live that I can account for 4, 5, or 6 meals per day. This makes prep jus so much easier on days when 6 meals is challenging.

However, what I would like to see is something like the trifecta app that allows you to scan foods and gather their macro data from that. It would allow for more accurate dieting. I would also like the option to add foods to the meals in case of slip ups. Currently, if you mess up and have like a scoop of ice cream or something like that or just accidentally go over your macros, you can’t account for that. RPDietCoachMealPlanner just simply doesn’t allow you to enter foods that surpass you macros. Instead, it should cast a warning like, “you are exceeding your macros for this meal, are you sure you want to proceed?” And then count that as a missed meal over macros.

Update: the developer got back to me and is already working on that feature!! Awesome!!

by BoogerTits69

The general premise of RPDietCoachMealPlanner is great, but it’s not without problems. It had me eating so much food the first week that I gained weight. The second week, it cut my carbs roughly in half and my weight started trending downward, though I was still above my starting weight. For the third week, it again recommended that I reduce macros, but RPDietCoachMealPlanner doesn’t give you an idea of what your new macros will be and you won’t be able to see your new macros until you make a selection. You also cannot change your selection, so if you choose to reduce macros for the next week and RPDietCoachMealPlanner almost completely cuts carbs from your diet, which is what happened in my case, you’ll have no way to change that selection for an entire week. I know my body better than RPDietCoachMealPlanner does, so I knew better than to completely cut out carbs, while still training heavy, so I had to select “over macros” for every meal check-in for an entire week. This is frustrating since it kills your meal adherence percentage and makes the shopping list feature useless. Overall, I’d still recommend RPDietCoachMealPlanner with the caveat that you may have to take the macro recommendations with a grain of salt as the changes from week to week can be too extreme. That being said, I’m down 6lbs after 4 weeks. If you use common sense and don’t take the macro recommendations as gospel you’ll be fine.

by NorseLibrarian

I have dropped 30lbs in less than 6 months using this program and I now weigh less than I have in at least a decade. No easy feat for someone staring 40 in the face.

It makes meal prepping simple and easy by allowing the user to select foods they want to eat and telling them exactly how much of it to put in every meal down to the gram or tenth of an ounce. So easy to batch out meals, even if it gets a little more complicated on training days. The diet autoregulates on a weekly basis and lets you know if you should be changing your macros or changing which program you are on so it’s really easy to see if you should be continuing to lose weight for that phase or if it’s time to give yourself a break and move into maintenance or even a massing phase.

I haven’t tried the massing program yet, but I’m sure I will once I reach my weight loss goals which is sure to be right around the corner!

The one caveat is that RPDietCoachMealPlanner is designed with performance athletes (competitive bodybuilders, powerlifters, crossfit athletes, endurance athletes, etc) so it may not be optimized for the normal sedentary person and some of the vocabulary could be confusing to complete nutrition novices. However, learning how your body works and processes food is something everyone should want to know and it’s really not too complex so far as RPDietCoachMealPlanner is concerned so I think anyone can benefit from using this after a small learning curve.

by Ddrazen

Despite what you might be led to believe, there are no quick fixes and shortcuts to losing weight or undergoing a transformation. It requires a sound nutrition plan and a will to put in the effort.

The folks at Renaissance Periodization (RP) have done the nutrition planning for you. They’ve developed plans based on findings from scientific research to help you reach your goals. They’ve provided that guidance previously in the form of spreadsheets, but RPDietCoachMealPlanner is the next step forward.

RPDietCoachMealPlanner helps guide you along the way, reminding you when to eat, and adjusts your meals (protein, fat, and carbs) based on your weight. All you need to do is follow along and do the work.

As with any app, there are some issues. RPDietCoachMealPlanner will let you choose foods and it will provide weights that match your needed macros. Right now, you can only choose one food per macro (i.e. eggs or turkey sausage for a breakfast protein but not both). I believe RP is working on fixing that right now.

There is less info available on their diet with RPDietCoachMealPlanner than came with their spreadsheets. They have a Facebook group that provides a lot of guidance and tips, and their new RP Diet 2.0 ebook provides a lot of the why behind the program.

I can’t recommend it enough. I’ve struggled for years to find an ideal way to control weight gain and feel good about what I eat. That search has ended with RP. Now I just need to go do the work.