No, I actually like cooking but I have a problem with having enough energy. I also wake up by 5 am every day and I’m just tired after work. I meal prep so I have something good available and don’t have to think and act when I’m tired. I also have an issue with overeating more and eating more junk food when I’m tired so it helps with that.

I guess I also don’t want to have to plan and deal with making 5 to 7 separate meals every week, planning all that, buying that many groceries. I only cook for myself so that seems really like an excessive amount of shopping and cooking and things to buy when I can do it once and be done.

Edit: you know what I absolutely loathe though is cleaning and doing dishes and that’s high on the list of reasons not to cook every day. The cooking is nice but nothing that goes along with it is.

I am also extremely guilty of going to town on junk food. I’ll wolf down ab entire bag of chips if I have one so I usually avoid buying them lol

Oh, ya know, it’s just an ugly rumor I heard.

So actually I meal prep on Sunday morning and eat the same thing M-F which I’m ok with but 5 days is my limit and I don’t think the food would still be good by the next Saturday and Sunday anyway. But maybe you’re on to something and even though I think I’m ok with the same dinner every day, maybe I need to make like 4 days worth of food then do a quick and easy 3 day meal prep on Thursday to switch it up. Maybe it’s at least partially a psychological thing that I wasn’t even aware was happening.

I’m liking the idea of freezing more healthy junk food. Maybe that would help you cut back on eating out too.

Yeah I ate Wendy’s the other day and my stomach actually hurt and I was really questioning my life choices lol

I’m going to try that, thank you!

I’ll Google it but is that an actual product? This isn’t just a Soylent Green is people joke?

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I never thought of freezing pasta sauce in cubes but that’s pretty brilliant.

It’s usually 2 or 3 meals on the plate!

Yep I meant the sleep schedule being different on weekends.

Oh gotcha. I’d be all cranky and dizzy and probably have a headache by then lol

That’s such a wonderful sentiment. Thank you for that!

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Do you feel like the fasting is good for you or is it more of a punishment for the 2 prior days?

Wait do you did keto for 8 years? I can’t even fathom the willpower that must have taken. I’ve tried intuitive eating in the past and I don’t tend to have a great time with mindfulness and impulse control but I really should incorporate at least some aspects of it because I definitely have had my moments where I sat there asking myself why I was eating when I wasn’t hungry… then took another bite.

Oooh interesting. Does that mess your sleep schedule up during the week too? I’m always up bright and early every day.

I don’t think the meditation is going to work for me but I really need to figure out some healthy junk food like you suggested! I have a bunch of premade quesadillas in the freezer but with all that cheese they’re not too healthy, and I cook them with butter so that isn’t great either.