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Too Busy to Eat Healthily? No You’re Not

If you tell yourself you’re too busy to shop for and prepare healthy meals, you’re just making excuses.

If so, you have two choices:

  1. Continue to make excuses and continue to battle with your weight.
  2. Take action and take control of your weight.

Tips for Balancing Your Diet & Your Schedule

Maybe every generation thinks so, but life really does seem busier today. At the end of each day, few people have the energy to come home and prepare a meal; not to mention the weekly grocery shopping.

But the consequences of choosing prepared or fast foods are devastating to your weight and health.

By making just a few changes to your routine, you can make healthy food shopping and preparation a part of your busy schedule.

  1. Re-Think the Grocery Store: Here’s something you probably didn’t realize: buying healthy foods can make reduce the amount of time you spend grocery shopping.How’s That? Think about your grocery store; where are the vegetables, the meats, the grains and the dairy? They are all around or near the outer edges and aisles of the store.That means if you plan your visit properly, you can whip ‘round the outside aisles and minimize your time in the middle aisles, which is where all the frozen dinners, prepared foods and empty-caloried snacks are calling your name.
  2. Bulk Cook: The thought of preparing a meal from scratch each day is enough to drive anyone to the pizza joint. But if you pick a day – Sundays are good – and prepare at least parts of your meals for the entire week, you will reduce the burden of coming up with a complete meal each day.You can chop and toss a huge salad and seal it in plastic so it’ll be fresh each day of the week. Stir fry, spaghetti sauces, stews and soups can all be made in bulk and frozen or refrigerated for use later. Chicken can be added to lots of different meals, so cooking and storing a bunch of it will really save on your meal prep time during the week.
  3. Become a Leftover Chef: Before you recycle any food left at the end of your meal, think about if you can refrigerate it and use it later as part of another meal. It might take some creative thinking, but that piece of chicken can be chopped and added to a bowl of rice and, along with the salad you prepared, become a new meal.If you work at it you can cut the prep time for making your own healthy meals to a point where it is comparable to getting takeout food.

Your local nutritional counsellor has more tips for making healthy meals a part of your lifestyle, no matter how busy it is.

 

 

If you have any questions or concerns, stop by, call, or email your Herbal One centre and our qualified counsellors will be happy to give you tips and some great ideas that will help reach your weight loss goals.

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