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Originally Posted by Carisa
I think its the opposite if your not too busy to eat then your not too busy for weight loss, weight loss is about choices when you eat and how much you eat....thats it. You have to eat to live so you are obviously eating since your alive, which means you have time.
Absolutely!
This is cross posted, but it's why I think it's easier on me to eat well:
I make a lot of easy meals to supplement the more time-intensive meals that I freeze into portions on weekends. I cook big batches of tomato sauce, jar them, and freeze to have on hand. I do the same with zucchini turkey meatballs, curries, spicy beans, casseroles, burritos, portions of soup or chili for daily lunch, and all kinds of things that I'd want to eat. I often make instant brown rice to mix with some of the aforementioned meals.
-Make a little chicken when you can - grill, bake, crockpot, whatever. It helps to have it cooked when you're going for quick
-Salads are always easy, and can vary
-Soups with some veggies, broth, maybe pasta, maybe rice, maybe chicken (that you would have already made). All kinds of chili - chili is filling and can be incredibly healthy.
Asian noodle bowls are another variation. I use tofu noodles, but you can use rice noodles or anything around, some sriracha, hoisin, etc, and mix with your veggies and sauce.
-Flatbread pizzas. Take flatbread (I use flatout), bake, cover with toppings of choice, bake. I've made BBQ chicken, Thai chicken, regular pizza varieties, buffalo chicken.
-Tuna cakes - like crab cakes, but with canned tuna
-Roast your veggies. It's simple and tastes delicious with little to no prep
-Quesadillas are easy and delicious - I use Trader Joe's low carb
-Sandwiches and wraps
-I use barley as a "pasta" and mix with veggies and tomato sauce, maybe a little Parmesan.
-I make cheese sauce (for homemade macaroni and cheese) and even cook a little extra pasta to have on hand to make cooking even faster.
-Loaded microwave "baked" potato (roast your broccoli, maybe crisp up a chopped piece of turkey or center cut bacon),
-stir fry over quick cooking brown rice - you can even use the chicken that you've already cooked! Trader Joe's has a nice frozen stir fry mix in which the veggies taste much better than some of the others.
You can do this! You may not have an extra hour everyday to cook, but you can cook three meals in an hour when you DO have the time.
How much time do you spend preparing your meals now? I bet you can use that same exact amount of time to make something similar and even healthier!