If you're organized about planning your meals and your cooking, you can make your laziness work for you.
There are so many ways to be effectively lazy and still lose weight! Don't make just one meal when you can make a week's worth of healthy food.
If you're going to the trouble to dice chicken breast for one recipe, dice up a family pack and separate it into several freezer bags at once.
If you're going to make two servings of brown rice, make the entire box.
Your freezer is your best friend.
You're going to dirty up a pan cooking bacon? Cook two or three packages and still have the same amount to clean up! Even lazier, buy the microwave bacon.
Require others to work, too.
If you cook for your family and they're not helping, you sit them down and explain the times will be a-changing.
We don't have to pretend to be Donna Reed or Mrs Leave It To Beaver.
If your family wants to eat every day, then they must help prepare food.
Period.
Or at the very least, clean up afterward.
Chopping, washing, shopping, cooking - whatever.
Seriously, you're doing your loved ones a disservice if you don't teach them how to cook and eat properly.
It's not rocket surgery and it's one of the few skills they need from cradle to grave.
(The other skills, in case you were wondering, are reading for pleasure, playing Scrabble, and practicing responsible toilet habits.
) If it's just you, get others to do your bidding.
Have the seafood guy cut your salmon into 4-ounce fillets.
Have the butcher slice deli meat in thin 1-ounce slices, rather than just buying what's in the tray.
You can even have someone do your shopping for you.
(You'd totally win the Lazy Queen tiara for that!) Even little kids can use the food scale to make 2-ounce snack packs of almonds.
It's not lazy - it's a math lesson! Think of all the cooking chores you do every day and see if you can combine them with other, related chores, or find a way to do them less often.
Think of all the kitchen chores you do alone and see how many other people you can involve.
Food prep should be less of a chore and more of a bonding and teaching experience.
Who knows - maybe every once in a while you can relax while sipping a nice glass of Chardonnay while the other people in your house make a healthy dinner for you.