Recently, I saw a patient who was suffering from multiple medical problems. One of them and perhaps the most important problem was obesity. And my patient understands this. But when I reminded him about weight loss, he said that he cannot eat the right food because of the simple and obvious reason: he did not have time to get what he needed.  He was too busy to eat right, to buy the right foods and to cook healthy fresh meals.

We all understand this. I’m sure we all have used this excuse before as well. Being busy is the part of our lives. So what has to be done?

Do you know that good planning prevents poor performance? I think this is the key: planning! Not once in a while, but daily meal planning. What I do for myself: in the morning before eating my morning fruits and supplements with plenty of water, I plan my lunch, evening meal and next morning fruit meal to figure out what needs to be bought at the food or grocery store.

Usually in my daily meal planning I write the list of fruits, vegetables, meat, fish or chicken. And I try to buy the food before work. If I cannot do it in the morning, I do my daily meal planning in the evening and buy food before coming home from work. As soon as planning is done and food is brought from the store I am guaranteed that I get the right food. Usually in the daytime I eat fruit and drink pure water, which is easy to do and does not require preparation.

And even though this is time consuming, the evening meal has to be prepared at home to make sure that there is no processed food and no food additives like monosodium glutamate. I also use calorie calculation to plan the meals and the multiply it by 2 to make sure that I do not get too many calories. But it is optional.

That is how I do my daily meal planning. You’ll see, that even without excessively planning or watching your calorie intake, you will be much healthier. You’ll save money since you won’t be buying as much junk, you’ll feel good that you prepared a healthy meal, that you are prepared for the day, and you’ll have a newfound energy.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding daily meal planning please let me know.

Tags: Daily meal planning, Weight loss

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