Besides helping you get into the right mindset for fat loss, preparing your meals in advance will help you prevent making a detour into a fast food restaurant. If you have never done this, start small, for example by making a commitment to prepare one meal per day. It doesn’t have to be a gourmet meal – with a little effort, you can find a ton of recipes that suit your budged and which you actually have time to prepare. You can plan ahead by cooking bigger amounts of food that will last a few days.

Choose one or two meal prep days in the week and stick to them. Consider the busiest times of your weak, when the risk of eating ‘bad’ food is the greatest because everything else is impractical, and prep for those weak spots. Believe us, as soon as you start preparing your own meals, your fat loss progress will speed up simply because you’ll be able to choose the products yourself and also keep a better track of the calories you’re getting in.

So if you’re serious about getting lean or shredded, it’s time to buy appropriate containers and start cooking! Don’t worry if you don’t have enough skills or even passion for cooking. If you think of it as a part of the process of re-gaining control over your own life and investing into a healthier, fitter, more confident you, you’ll soon start truly enjoying it!