Menu's , how not to brute force it?

        Decided to make a game with controller support and figured I would need a whole lot more menu's to add to the game's functionality. Problem is, I have no idea how to make menu's without a boatload of if statements and integer values to keep track of what menu option I press and where to highlight the option I'm selecting. The other problem is that I don't know if there is any other way to do it than my brute force way.