Quality over Quantity

When people think about meal prepping it’s often a case of prepping to get through the week then see what happens at the weekend, this lifestyle could be costing you so much time!

If we look at the week in a whole and label meals

green for good, healthy and meets calorie goals

Amber for okay, sits just outside of calorie goals and maybe has some extra fats or sugars we don’t need

And red for terrible, these are meals that ruin your progress and set your body back into dealing with an excess of fats and sugars.

If you had a week that was green 5 days a week then red the other 2 days, just in terms of dinner meals then what we see leading into the next week is dips in energy, excess in tiredness due to the amount your body has to process the rubbish and worse recovery from exercise as your body doesn’t have the nutrients it’s used to/ needs to repair itself after training.

The way I tackled this was giving myself another cheeky meal that was just a little worse for me than immediately jumping in for the worst option just because I could. Cooking healthy meals or prepping meals for 4 days of green eating then 3 days of food with a bit extra sauce and maybe some dairy mixed about and a little extra snacking (1-2 extra), what did this achieve?

In terms of maintenance of the physique I worked quite hard to achieve I found so much more ease once changing from the suicide diet where you kill all progress at the end and this one smooth routine where I never have to spend a night sweating out a kebab, regretting the choice I made before.

Now note before I finish up is I’m not saying don’t eat shit ever. I go on holiday I’m not ordering salads, I have a birthday party, im not gonna refuse some cake, but when it’s just me on my own picking what to fuel myself I trust in myself to pick something nice for my body that will help me feel energised and healthy.

Hope this helps you maybe think about your own situation, all you have to do is buy that first healthy stock up and find a way to maintain it then you’re a totally different person when it comes to nutrition!

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