# #53 The One Meal Habit Can Save You 8.5 hours a Week!

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Podcast: [Body by Design](https://stenobird.com/podcast/body-by-design-7043766)
Published: 2026-03-11T16:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

A lot of women think dinner is the problem.It is not dinner.It is the daily mental load wrapped around dinner that is chewing them up.I know this because I have lived it.There was a time I would hit the afternoon already mentally spent from the day, then still have to figure out what the hell was happening for dinner. Not just cook it. Think about it. Check what was in the fridge. Realise something was missing. Stop at the shops. Come home. Cook. Clean it up. Then wake up and do it all again the next day.That is why dinner feels so heavy for so many women.It is never just the 20 minutes of cooking.It is five jobs stacked into one, right at the point in the day when your brain has the least patience left.And when you add it up, that cycle can easily chew through 1.5 hours a day.That is 10.5 hours a week.A full workday gone to figuring out dinner. This week on the podcast I am talking about exactly that. How to stop making dinner harder than it needs to be, and how a little structure buys you back time, energy, and a smoother week. If your afternoons feel fried and dinner feels like one more thing hanging over your head, you will like this one. Lou 🧡

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