Does anyone just get tired of all the maths? All the calculating and weighing and measuring?
I cook for my family, we don’t have much money for takeout or restaurants so we eat homecooked meals every day. Which means every day I weigh out ingredients, add them to MFP, cook, weigh the finished product, then divide and weigh out my portion. If we’re having rice I weigh dry, then weigh cooked and divide for my portion. Same for pasta, couscous, etc.
My brain is so preoccupied with making sure I estimate my calories properly, make nutritious meals that everyone enjoys and stay within my macros/allowance that some days it’s overwhelming. I’m spending my whole afternoon trying to wrap my mind around making a simple curry/rice dish.
I try to make the same things regularly so that I don’t have to figure the recipe out every time, I can just use the previous calculations, but sometimes the sauce is a different brand, the chicken thighs were cheaper this week so it’s thigh instead of breast, or the rice is running out so I can’t cook a nice even 200g it’s something silly like 189g.
I just get stuck and overwhelmed. 7 days a week I have to do this and I’m getting fatigued over it. I miss being able to just cook and eat without all the calculations, but I know I have to do this to ensure I’m creating a good deficit for myself to lose weight.
I’ve considered meal prep, but it’s hard to imagine doing a weeks worth of meals for a family of four in one lump. I think I’d take all weekend and have a breakdown!
I guess I just need some words of wisdom. How do I avoid burnout when I am so committed to losing weight, but don’t have the mental energy for all the calculating every day?
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