I hate cooking. What do I do?

I don't know if this is going to be perceived as a rant post, or what, but what my journey so far has come to is this:

I eat out too much. Enough to make weight loss difficult, if not unsustainable, or impossible.

So I should eat out less right? I think everyone on this sub knows its easier said than done.
I see a lot of people with some minor or major victories base a lot of their diet on something they cook for themselves, or even meal-prep throughout the week.

I don't know if I can do it. I mean, I have cooked things I liked to eat before - the eating part is just fine. But I live alone. Whenever I buy ingredients, I end up wasting most of it because it goes bad too quickly. It makes me tend to buy more processed foods that have a long shelf life, or just not stock up at all and eat out.

Not only is that expensive, but it's ruining my relationship with food, and my body.

It feels like every time I carve out a pound or two of weight loss (fluctuating a bit lower than normal ranges for a week - not just a one-time weigh-in below normal), I have a bad day at work, or an emotional event, or something else that makes me seek out my comfort food.

And I think about cutting that food out of my life and it just feels miserable. I think about the extra time I would have to spend cooking, learning recipes, failed attempts, extra cleaning and dishes, and more. Is this normal? Am I just lazy?

I think about buying smoothie mix that advertises 2/5ths of my daily fruit and vegetable servings. Actually, no - I already tried them. They don't taste that good. I don't know how 'health-nuts' stay on that for very long.

So anyway, I guess I am asking two things: one, am I alone here? doesn't anyone else feel this way? and two, what do I even do? Is the answer really to suck it up and just cook things and stop eating the food I've grown to depend on for comfort when things go wrong?

Do I need to buy one of those pre-packaged home meal subscriptions? What am I doing?

submitted by /u/ThrowAway4BankFees
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/3yQxuWI