Don’t want to cook two meals?

This one is for you.

When someone says Cath, I just can’t cook two different meals at night. By the end of the day I am so fried that only reason I do cook is because the kids and the other half have to eat something. 

Or I don’t have the time to cook two meals.

Or the family are such fussy eats I just have to cook what they will eat. 

I get it. It is a real problem for so many women and can be a huge blocker because they feel like the can’t stick to a plan. So what ends up happening it they don’t start anything at all. 

In this quick video, I’m to share some things that work for my clients in the Burnout Fix so that you can break free of this, trapping you from supporting healthy weight loss. 

Key takeaways 

Dinner is only one meal a day - we can easily forget that dinner is only ⅓ of our meals in a day! So why do we let it block us from beginning to make changes? Not just that. When supporting exhaustion, burnout and weight loss, breakfast is the most important meal of the day to balance first. And sometimes the trickiest, but in The Burnout Fix, the first one that we work on. 

The all-or-nothing mindset - It’s when you can’t do everything “perfectly”, do everything you should be doing, you throw it all in. This we see over and over again when we over-commit to too many changes at once (dieting is a perfect example) and we can’t stick to it (and most of the time it doesn’t work) so we stop.

Women over 40 require a different macro balance from men and children - There isn’t just any way of getting around this. We need different levels of protein, carbs and anti-inflammatory fats. So when we don’t honour this need, we don’t see any changes and if we are trying to get our energy back and reach and maintain a healthy weight for you, it just compounds the problem. But don’t let this stress you out about dinners - start with breakfast, one thing at a time. 

Don’t worry about dinner yet. Give yourself a break. Start by balancing your breakfast so you are not snacking or relying on caffeine to get you to lunch. Then start working on your lunch. 

Once you begin to have more energy and fewer cravings, you can take a breath and realise that you can start chipping away at meal planning for dinners. Just start with a few a week. With time, there are some you can tweak for you, so you are not cooking twice, just prepping a slightly different side to the meal. 

With my clients in The Burnout Fix, we make sure, each week, step by step, that any plan you are working on is doable. It is achievable with what you have going on that week and considering your energy levels. I give you the tools so that you can then take control back of your health, your energy and support and maintain a healthy weight. 

Reach out if you want to find out more.