Excuses #1
I don’t have time to prepare meals!
Think about it, there is time in every ones day to anything they need to do. It boils down to prioritizing what’s important to you. If you want to take control of your diet, it begins with time management. We all have the same amount of time in one day than the next person. There are 24 hours in our day, sure we don’t stay awake for all of them but I’ll show you what we might be doing with our time. The way I break it down is into three sections;
-8 hours to sleep
-8 hours to work
-8 hours to play
(Now this might not hold true for every one, but it’s a good way of discussing my point)
When I say play I mean this as your free time. So you have 8 hours to plan for the free time that you now have. Okay so you’re saying you don’t have that much time and I’m sure your right. Put into account travel time to work, getting ready in the morning, taking the kids to practice, and now you have half of that time. Let us say 4 hours. This is still a substantial time in the day where you can prepare food, and do grocery shopping. Now you don’t have to shop everyday, as I mentioned before you will want to shop every 4 days. So this leaves you with preparing food for the day.
You will need to strategize your time and manage it well. Ask you’re self where you spend most of your time. Is it in front of the computer surfing aimlessly, is it in front of the tube watching reruns of Everyone Loves Raymond. Is it hanging out with your friends after work at a bar? Now I’m not saying you do this, but it just goes to show you this might be where others are spending their time.
You can delegate tasks to the whole family to prepare meals and meals in advanced. If you have children you can get them to prepare they’re school lunch, while you prepare your foods for your days work (think about how much money you can save not eating out at work) the average person spends anywhere from $10-30 a day for 5 day work week. That’s anywhere from $50-150 a week being spent on lunch. You can take this money and buy fresh food at the super market rather than spending it and still have left over money for the week.
Preparing meals isn’t that hard and doesn’t take that long. You can prepare your meals for the day ahead but I don’t recommend any later than that because you always want the food to taste fresh. You want to be shopping every 4 days so the food can remain fresh and maintain its highest form of nutrients. As groceries age it tends to drop the level of benefit it holds. So again try to schedule a visit to the grocery every 4 days. There are many super markets that are open late and a few that are 24 hours. There really is no excuse why you can’t make it. Refer to the article in the archive of this site on how to go shopping at the market.
You can prepare many different types of foods, and there will be dishes that will take more time than others. It’s up to you to know how much time you have for making meals. This is based on your schedule. As mentioned above, although most of m clients spend no more that 45 minutes in the kitchen preparing their meals for the whole day.
You can cook chicken in advanced. You can cook chicken for 3 days, if you want to have fish you can do the same, this goes for steaks too. Many people will be asking, well wont the food taste dry? It might, but it’s up to you to have it seasoned and cooked right. So it can taste good. You can always squeeze a bit of lemon over your food. Lemon is very good and it also helps cut grease and tighten up your skin!
If you haven’t been in the kitchen before or you rarely make food, I would suggest you learn how to prepare meals. I will help you as much as I can through the upcoming articles and through my practice if you decide to visit me. I also offer courses on how to prepare and make meals!
If you use a cook book, you can alter it according to your good nutritional habits. You can replace many ingredients with other ones that are healthier. You can replace your protein source (meat) with a leaner type of meat. You can replace white rice with brown rice as another example. Instead of white flour you can use whole wheat flour. You can make your own sauces instead of buying them at the stores and you have more control over them because there won’t have any additives or preservatives in it. You can replace butter with olive oil. You can make protein bars instead of buying them. Many of the packaged products out there aren’t really even that good for you. The goal would be to prepare your own food for the day. In the long run you will have incorporated healthy habits into your life and families and you would have saved a lot of money too from not eating out all the time!
Refer to the articles on the right hand side to give you more insight on when to eat, and the timing of eating. As I mentioned before if there is anything I have not covered let me know, and I will post a related article promptly. Thank you for reading and have a great new day preparing your meals!
Learn how thousands of people are transforming their lives with one simple eBook. What are you waiting for Go check it out! Click HERE
Dean Boukaras, CPT
Build the Body of Your Dreams, Online
I don’t have time to prepare meals!
Think about it, there is time in every ones day to anything they need to do. It boils down to prioritizing what’s important to you. If you want to take control of your diet, it begins with time management. We all have the same amount of time in one day than the next person. There are 24 hours in our day, sure we don’t stay awake for all of them but I’ll show you what we might be doing with our time. The way I break it down is into three sections;
-8 hours to sleep
-8 hours to work
-8 hours to play
(Now this might not hold true for every one, but it’s a good way of discussing my point)
When I say play I mean this as your free time. So you have 8 hours to plan for the free time that you now have. Okay so you’re saying you don’t have that much time and I’m sure your right. Put into account travel time to work, getting ready in the morning, taking the kids to practice, and now you have half of that time. Let us say 4 hours. This is still a substantial time in the day where you can prepare food, and do grocery shopping. Now you don’t have to shop everyday, as I mentioned before you will want to shop every 4 days. So this leaves you with preparing food for the day.
You will need to strategize your time and manage it well. Ask you’re self where you spend most of your time. Is it in front of the computer surfing aimlessly, is it in front of the tube watching reruns of Everyone Loves Raymond. Is it hanging out with your friends after work at a bar? Now I’m not saying you do this, but it just goes to show you this might be where others are spending their time.
You can delegate tasks to the whole family to prepare meals and meals in advanced. If you have children you can get them to prepare they’re school lunch, while you prepare your foods for your days work (think about how much money you can save not eating out at work) the average person spends anywhere from $10-30 a day for 5 day work week. That’s anywhere from $50-150 a week being spent on lunch. You can take this money and buy fresh food at the super market rather than spending it and still have left over money for the week.
Preparing meals isn’t that hard and doesn’t take that long. You can prepare your meals for the day ahead but I don’t recommend any later than that because you always want the food to taste fresh. You want to be shopping every 4 days so the food can remain fresh and maintain its highest form of nutrients. As groceries age it tends to drop the level of benefit it holds. So again try to schedule a visit to the grocery every 4 days. There are many super markets that are open late and a few that are 24 hours. There really is no excuse why you can’t make it. Refer to the article in the archive of this site on how to go shopping at the market.
You can prepare many different types of foods, and there will be dishes that will take more time than others. It’s up to you to know how much time you have for making meals. This is based on your schedule. As mentioned above, although most of m clients spend no more that 45 minutes in the kitchen preparing their meals for the whole day.
You can cook chicken in advanced. You can cook chicken for 3 days, if you want to have fish you can do the same, this goes for steaks too. Many people will be asking, well wont the food taste dry? It might, but it’s up to you to have it seasoned and cooked right. So it can taste good. You can always squeeze a bit of lemon over your food. Lemon is very good and it also helps cut grease and tighten up your skin!
If you haven’t been in the kitchen before or you rarely make food, I would suggest you learn how to prepare meals. I will help you as much as I can through the upcoming articles and through my practice if you decide to visit me. I also offer courses on how to prepare and make meals!
If you use a cook book, you can alter it according to your good nutritional habits. You can replace many ingredients with other ones that are healthier. You can replace your protein source (meat) with a leaner type of meat. You can replace white rice with brown rice as another example. Instead of white flour you can use whole wheat flour. You can make your own sauces instead of buying them at the stores and you have more control over them because there won’t have any additives or preservatives in it. You can replace butter with olive oil. You can make protein bars instead of buying them. Many of the packaged products out there aren’t really even that good for you. The goal would be to prepare your own food for the day. In the long run you will have incorporated healthy habits into your life and families and you would have saved a lot of money too from not eating out all the time!
Refer to the articles on the right hand side to give you more insight on when to eat, and the timing of eating. As I mentioned before if there is anything I have not covered let me know, and I will post a related article promptly. Thank you for reading and have a great new day preparing your meals!
Learn how thousands of people are transforming their lives with one simple eBook. What are you waiting for Go check it out! Click HERE
Dean Boukaras, CPT
Build the Body of Your Dreams, Online
2 comments:
Do you have any suggestions for some nutritious, delicious 15-minute meals?
It's much too easy to make a box of KD in that amount of time but I know that is not what I should be eating!! :0)
Thanks, I'll check back on the site for your reply.
Well if your short on time, I always suggest you make a shake. I don't meal taking water and mixing the powder. Add ingredients to the shake, like a banana, blue berries, strawberries, flax meal, greens powders, etc. The goal is to make the shake more than a protein supplement. You want it to deliver your macros and micro nutrients..Hope that helped...If you look though the achieves you'll be sure to find ideas on managing time and meals! Thank You!
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