Welcome To Jeff’s Kitchen

The following post was written by Russ Turley:

Jeff sent me this picture a couple weeks ago and I was way impressed. I told him he should post it, but I couldn’t wait to show you all. He also sent along a description of what you see below.

“Here are my next 35 lunches. I usually eat 2 of these a day for lunch and afternoon meal, but miss a couple on weekends when we eat out so I now cook about every 3 weeks. It is a total of 9lbs of chicken breasts, 16 lbs of mixed vegetables and 18 cooked cups of basmati rice.”

Let’s break it down into calories for you. The chicken breast in each meal is 3 oz and about 150 calories per meal. The rice is a half cup which is just over 100 calories per meal. And finally the vegetables are a cup and a half and account for 150 calories per meal, give or take a few calories. This is 400 calories of clean eating.

This is what it looks like to prepare meals in advance. Jeff is living the lifestyle that we talk about on the show. He’s prepared meals for 3 weeks in I’d guess an hour, two if he was really slow. He doesn’t have to think about where he’s going to get lunch from, or if he runs out of time the night before to prepare a lunch. A quick trip to the freezer and he’s out the door. Sure that freezer is bigger than my whole kitchen apparently, but it’s easy none the less.

How could you make your life easier by preparing meals in advance? You don’t have to prepare this many meals in advance, but what about a weeks worth of lunches? How about boiling a dozen eggs for breakfast for the next couple weeks? Even the smallest effort in advance in the kitchen will make it easier throughout the week to stay on track toward your goal.

Make the time to prepare yourself good foods in advance and the weight will take care of itself.