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The Sunday Kitchen Reset

One hour, once a week, that runs the rest of the household on rails — built because an unplanned week doesn't survive a GLP-1 appetite.

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The four parts

01

Clean-out

Be honest about what's actually still food in the fridge versus a science experiment wearing a lid. A fridge full of ambiguous leftovers offers no real answer to "what's for dinner."

02

The plan

One page, literally — if it takes more than one page, the plan's already lost. A skeleton for the next seven days: what protein anchors each dinner, what's ready for lunches, what Friday and Saturday already are.

03

Shopping

A master list covers 90% of what gets bought every week; the remaining 10% flexes with that week's plan. In person or delivery — convenience is a feature, not a failure.

04

Prep block

Proteins portioned and partly cooked ahead, fruit washed and cut, vegetables chopped, a carb base batch-cooked. A weeknight meal becomes assembly, not a project.

The Snack Ladder

Most afternoon kitchen-wandering isn't hunger. It's boredom standing in for hunger. Climb the ladder before deciding what you actually want.

1
WaterThirst gets misread as hunger more often than you'd think
2
Something with proteinCloses the gap toward the daily floor
3
Fruit or vegetablesReal food, low decision cost
4
Now decideFull meal or an honest, planned treat — either is fine

How the week runs once Sunday is done

Sun
Kitchen Reset — plan, shop, prep
Mon
Recovery day — low friction, whatever's prepped
Tue
Normal night, assembled not invented
Wed
Normal night, assembled not invented
Thu
Normal night, assembled not invented
Fri
Pizza or a restaurant — planned, not a slip
Sat
Long-ride day — recovery meal set up before the driveway
One Kitchen, Two Portions

Same meal, different quantities and timing — not two separate dinners. It's the small piece of engineering that removes most of the 6pm tension when two people are eating for two different training loads.

“What changed isn't our willpower. It's that we stopped waiting to decide things in the moment we were least equipped to decide them well, and started deciding them once a week, together, with coffee, when neither of us was hungry or not-hungry enough to make a bad call.”
— from Chapter 8, “Sunday, Rebuilt”

Not medical advice. This describes one household's personal system, shared for reference only.