The Importance of Preparation

For me, the key to staying on track with my healthy eating is preparation and planning.

We all have busy lives and none of us want to finish our working day and then have to prep and cook a whole healthy meal. However, if you are trying to lose weight or just improve your health, then having a healthy diet the majority of the time is important.

I get asked all the time how I find the time to eat the way I do. My answer is always the same – I don’t find the time, I make the time. So, once a week, usually on a Sunday, I spend a couple of hours preparing and cooking some things for the week ahead that will help me make quick, easy and healthy meals and provide me with lots of snacks.

Spending a couple of hours in the kitchen all in one go might seem like a lot, but after that you will be able to make some of your meals in under 5 minutes. To me, that makes those couple of hours in the kitchen worth it.

This food prep doesn’t last us the whole week as we will eat it all, and some of it would go bad after 3-4 days. So, I either do a second food prep on Wednesday/Thursday or I wing it for the rest of the week. For me, starting the week (sometimes after a not so great weekend in terms of eating), is the hardest part. Once I have gotten in to a routine the first few days (which the food prep helps with massively), when that food does run out, I am more likely to make better choices.