I started only prepping lunch meals, with like X 1 billion snacks – fruits, nuts, bars, cheese and rice crackers bla bla bla you get where I’m going with this.
I was never satisfied – always wanting more, I would end up craving more food!
These days I eat 5 x per day they are all MEALS – if I want a snack I’ll have a piece of fruit, a protein ball, the banana bread I made but I don’t carry 10 different snack options ‘just in case’ I have my food and I know I won’t be left hungry, unsatisfied or bored.
I also realised my lack of consistent results was because I wasn’t sticking to any food plan, I was eating too sporadically, too indulgent, undereating in protein and definitely binge eating on weekends on all the fatty foods, because I thought that was what balance meant.
Thankfully I found a coach, a superwoman of a coach in mid 2018 who taught me about energy balance and body composition which totally change my life and how I eat. Which has completely changed how I live.
PROS to meal prep
- Stay on track WITHOUT counting calories OR macros
- Know the exact ingredients of what you eat
- Learning about your body – what feels good and what doesn’t
- Meal prepping is the missing strategy for most people to seeing faster and better results, a good mindset, is also very important too.
- Meal prepping gives you the upper hand, the control to know what you can eat vs. what you think you can eat
CONS to meal prep
- Takes time
- Can become boring with same foods if you don’t change it up
- Mum won’t like it taking up her fridge space (haha)
Is it really that bad?’
If you think this is too much effort, well welcome to the club it’s a lot easier to buy lunch or choose a bowl of cereal but how will it make you feel after eating that? I would argue that your goals mean a lot more to you than being another lazy person on the couch, or at the desk with a pre-bought meal that is full of sugar, soy and gluten.
