Is anyone else exhausted from cooking?

(Joanna Parszyk ) #61

For me day without cooking is a sad day!
But l do appreciate some extra time on my hands when l do some fasting.
Cooking in batches safes a lot of time. When l shop for food l usually already know what l’ll planning to do from it in an upcoming week (l’m cooking Keto for myself, “normal” for my better half and sometimes Keto for clients).

(Carl Keller) #62

I’m a sous chef so I cook for 50 hours a week. It used to be that I would be exhausted when I got home so I would usually order pizza or chinese or anything fast. But since I have been doing keto I have a lot more energy and I often look forward to cooking something healthy to eat… even if sometimes “cooking” is just making a good salad.

#63

Yes, that definitely happens to me. I am not one of these people who enjoys cooking every day, at all…

My own personal shortcuts for those days:
-Eat cold cuts, cheese and pickles (or something else that doesn’t require cooking)
-When I cook, I cook big (usually on a weekend day) and freeze leftovers for good easy reheatable meals
-Grab a rotisserie chicken from the nearest grocery and have a salad or microwave some vegetables
-Get a keto friendly meal to-go from a restaurant
-Pick up a ready-prepped throw in the oven meal from the grocery store (Wegman’s has great options in my area)
-Cook the easiest items in my fridge, usually eggs and bacon or similar

(charlie3) #64

I work long hours, long commute, live alone, wasn’t a cook in the sugar days. In those day it was 3 meals plus two snacks X 7 days = 35 times eating. Now it’s 2 meals for 6 days, nothing on one day so 12 meals a week. So on Saturday shop the veg market, costco, and may be walmart after half day of work. Sunday is food prep. I make bacon and eggs for a breakfast, 5 lunches for work, a week supply oil and vinegar dressing for my nightly humongous dinner salad and cut the veggies for sunday and monday dinners. So on sunday I’ve made 8 of the 12 meals I’ll need for the week. On Teusday’s and Thursday’s I cut vegetables for 2 dinners. This leaves just enough time for exercise (80 minutes 5 times a week of brisk walking on breaks and lunch time at work, 3-5 40 minute cardio sessions on the Airdyne at home, and 3 40 minute lifting sessions at home). When work slows down or I have the nerve to retire I’ll get more elaborate with actual cooking.

Those 12 meals a week have a lot of calories. I like the food, I like being hungry when it’s time to eat, very full when a meal is done, and still have my highschool waist line and less than 12% body fat.