Why You Lose Weight With Meal Prepping (Part 1)
March 31, 2018 Ashley 0 Comments
So, here we are.
Three months past that resolution to lose weight, and the only thing you’ve lost is resolve itself.
Maybe it’s work wearing ya down. Maybe it’s the kids. Maybe it’s the stack of exams you’ve been studying for. Whatever it is, I hear you. We get home after a beleaguering weekday, and all we wanna do is order a bucket of oil drenched carb strings from Happy Hunan. Sure, the version of you at the gym this morning had visions of Pinterest level healthy ingestibles you’d whip up tonight. But right now you? Post-plodding-along-in-traffic you? That chick’s the antithesis of morning-you. In fact, she kinda even resents healthy, happy morning you a bit, if we’re being honest. And I totally get it. I recently saw this Facebook post from a pal about how she was awarding herself “worst mom of the year” label for being so tired one night that she fed the whole family cereal for dinner. It doesn’t end there, either. ’cause that kinda post is not only common, but constantly sandwiched betwixt my buddes sharing about their feeling eating. (And drinking).
Sounds like something you might do?
Well, don’t beat yourself up. Just rest assured that we’re totally gonna fix this.
’cause I’ve been there too.
See, before I started school, I had regular people stress. The kinda stuff everyone does. I had my two jobs, my bills, relationships, and those occasional existential panic attacks that accompany your brain waking you up at 3:00 A.M. to issue the friendly reminder that we’re all ambling haplessly toward a casket. (“Whoah, that got dark quickly….”) No bigs. Common problems, am I right? I could handle all’ve that, keeping my balance in diet and exercise alike. But then … school started. And my free time stopped. And my mind went all “blue screen of death” on me. In my former lifestyle, I had time to restart my frozen noggin. But, under this newly installed program, I had to have open too many tabs. And we all know how slow things go when you do that. Suddenly, I found my home in disarray and my mouth eating my feelings. It wasn’t that I was eating the wrong stuff. It’s just that I was eating more of it than necessary. To assuage hateful sentiments, I’d make my stomach match my schedule: overstuffed. Why? Well, we have a set amount of willpower each day. This is why the morning you we talked about earlier has all those awesome weight loss plans at 6:00 A.M. (maybe), while evening you’s transmogrified into a troglodyte who’d club a kid in line over the head for his happy meal. Now, thankfully, I’m on a plant based diet. So the worst that happened to me when I went all jaw juggernaut was that I gained a few pounds. The best thing, that happened to me, however – was finding a fix that helped get it off quickly: Meal prepping.
Okay, hear me out.
’cause if you’re anything like me, you’re already eye-rolling.
And picturing a Betty Crocker/Vargas pinup hybrid, traipsing around a pristine kitchen.
(“All these options! I can’t decide which flavor of atherosclerosis to choose…”)
Allow me to laugh along with you at that unrealistic imagery that’s neither’ve us. Instead, let’s make it more realistic. Picture, instead, yours truly – in ill fitting, probably food-stained sweatpants and a messy ponytail, taking all of ten minutes on a Sunday (while the deep conditioning mask is doing it’s job, because I might as well do all my adulting at once) to do the following: 1.) Allow six tupperware bins to cascade out of the cabinet. 2.) Issue a few profane and creative phrases as five of them fall on the floor. 3.) Dump some mushrooms, tofu, seitan, veggies and onion slices (or whatever else tickles your tongue) inside. 4.) Pop ’em in the fridge. The only thing I hafta do each night when I come home, is plop the contents in a pan with some seasoning and I’m eating faster than that one terrible place down the street (who I’ve given one too many chances) can get to my door with the wrong order. Yet again.
So, what actual results have I noticed?
All.Of.Them. Seriously, I was just expecting weight loss from this. But I got so much more from it.
Read on to see the 8 ways meal prepping improved my life.