If you’re not someone who loves to prepare food, the idea of meal prepping can seem overwhelming.
It sounds like it takes too much time, effort, and planning.
But in reality, there’s just a learning curve that’s standing in the way of a technique that can benefit you and your health.
Meal prepping is a skill, and like any other skill, it can be learned. When you understand how to meal prep and you figure out ways to make it more efficient, you can set yourself up for healthy eating for the week in just an hour or two.
If you’re struggling with it, think about how to start small. Instead of preparing full meals ahead of time, think about the little things you can do to make the cooking process throughout the week go more quickly.
Maybe that’s roasting a lot of vegetables and putting those in the fridge to warm up over the next few days. Or maybe it’s just baking a cookie sheet full of chicken breasts or another meat that you can quickly add to a salad or some veggies. Or setting up bags of fruit and protein powder to pop into a smoothie in the morning.
Even just two or three small actions like that will go a long way in keeping you on track with your health. If you have chicken and veggies in the fridge, there’s no need to run through a drive-thru. If you have your smoothie, you don’t have to be tempted to grab a donut.
The little changes can make all the difference.
Step out of the mindset that meal prep has to be an all-day event that requires complex cooking skills and difficult recipes. You can focus on small steps that have a big impact.
Just like with any skill, the more you do it, the better you’ll become at it. Within a few months, you might be ready to prep those full meals or tackle harder recipes.
But you don’t have to let those big ideas stop you and hold you back from making small, actionable changes.
It’s no different than exercising. You wouldn’t expect yourself to go from never working out to running five miles and bench-pressing 200 pounds. You start small, build up your stamina, and develop the skills you need to be able to reach your goals.
Long-term weight loss is not about what you do. It’s about the skills you develop.
Remember that the goal is long-term health, not crash diets and massive changes overnight.
That’s one of the ideas I emphasize strongly in The Fat Extraction Method. If you’re ready to start making those small changes so that eventually you can get the big impact, go to fatextractionmethod.com
Building skills daily,
John