You know there’s no calories in normal seasoning?
Tasty food gives dopamine. Dopamine gives you motivation to do stuff.
You’re just unnecessarily doing it on hard mode without at least some pepper
Edit: also halve the rice and triple the broccoli
It’s like 5 calories of broccoli with all those nutrients, but like 350 of basically empty carbs.
Carbs are required for muscle building.
I go with beans. You get carbs and nutrients.
And protein
More like 40 but same difference
Tasty food just makes you want to eat more.
Not if you fill up with tasty fibre rich food
it genuinely pisses me the fuck off that producers aren’t just putting fibre into everything they can, just use the leftover chaff from making white flour!
Fibre is the closest thing i know to a magic cure-all supplement, eat more fibre and basically all the little discomforts related to digestion just fucking disappear and you feel generally better and healthier.
But like it’s really annoying to actually get extra fibre without fairly significant changes to your diet or spending extra on fibre-enriched pasta that’s engineered to be basically identical to normal pasta, and yet there are plenty of products that seem like adding fibre would make no change at all to the texture, like just put some grain chaff powder in muffins!!!
halve the rice and triple the broccoli
Everyone has different nutritional needs. If you’re doing chicken broccoli rice, it’s probably because it’s much easier to measure out an exact amount of macronutrients to fit your needs and fill up the rest on broccoli to make it as satiating as needed.
What does that have to do with seasoning?
I guess it wasn’t clear what I was responding to. I edited my comment with the quote.
This picture oozes such self-loathing it’s concerning.
When you’re a fatty, loathing is at an all time high. I was never fat, but I’ve lost 20 lbs since February eating pretty similar to this
If you were never fat, why are you trying to lose 20+ pounds?
I was 6 ft and 200 lbs. Not obese by any stretch. Trying to lose the dad bod and get back to where I was before I retired from field work.
My goal is to actually be leaner than that, now that I actually have time to pay attention to fitness and diet.
I’ll tell you that for most people it’s less about food intake and more about physical exertion.
I’m not saying eat cake for every meal but as long as you’re burning more calories than you’re taking in that’s all that matters unless you have underlying health conditions. Keep being you but just exert yourself more. Work until failure.
I say this with love as a person who has struggled with dysmorphia and has taken several steps to overcome it.
When I was in Chicago went to my Mexican friend’s house for home cooked Mexican! Yeah. Looked like that.
Wife: “Ed’s guts can’t take spicy.”
Shoot me.
Ed needs to suck it up for the sake of all that is Mexican.
Also username
Seriously. And you will very quickly get used to it. Like you wouldn’t believe what happened to me when I started making red lentil dal on the regular, but after a while, my bowel movements went back to regular and no more “ring of fire.”
LOL, nah. (I’m actually giggling.) Ed was 50 at the time, had IBS or something.
And yes, practice makes perfect! I eat peppers that would make a billy goat puke, no problem.
Wife and I were at the Mexican joint Friday night and I was scarfing the homemade hot salsa, the kind you have to ask for. “You are drinking that!” Another time she accidentally stuck her chip in and got it in her mouth. Coughing and crying so hard I was worried for her heart condition. Good times.
The dual-use of the English “spice” (ground minerals used to improve flavor) and “spice” (substances that cause food to taste hot and intense) leads to many unfortunate losses of potential flavor.
Gymbro bodysculpt enthusiasts are wild. They won’t have tasty meals because they don’t want food to be associated with pleasure, only fuel.
Maybe it works, maybe its a clever brain hack, but I suspect its from the same pseuds that brought us nofap
Theres a gym bro at my work who eats the same meals everyday. Its something like plain oatmeal, protein shake, boiled chicken, greek yogurt. Every day, no seasoning, all plain and boring. He was complaining to me that he has to almost force himself to eat sometimes and im just thinking like “yeah no shit, you eat wall paste every meal”.
I mean i meal prep my lunches, been over 10 years, updated it once recently. Rice, refried black beans, corn, sweet onion, green pepper. Everyday for lunch. I think it’s tasty and being able to eat the same thing everyday for years is what makes me a great partner lol
See, that makes sense to me. Its not like your eating that for every meal so you still get variety. And you don’t have to think about lunch when getting ready for work/school or whatnot.
the difference there is that you think it tastes good, if it just keeps tasting good every time you eat it then yeah why stop?
Meh. Everything in moderation. Including self-imposed suffering. Sleep late. Eat tasty food. Have days where you just exist. Fuel is for cars.
vroom vroom
It does make those cheat days 100x more special though.
Sounds like self-inflicted stockholm syndrome, tbh.
but like, every day can be cheat day if you just make healthy food that tastes good…
and not only is that obviously more enjoyable, but it means there’s 0 temptation to slip back into bad habits because the good habits are self-reinforcing, half the reason i enjoy exercise is because i know it means i can eat more delicious food.
It’s so insane to me because i’ve trained myself to be quite in tune with my body’s needs.
Turns out animals are evolved to seek out the food they need to function and thus we have the ability to actually enjoy healthy food and even get cravings for things with the specific nutrients we need at that point in time.
Thinking that food shouldn’t be pleasurable is like thinking that a well-functioning diesel engine should be making horrid grinding noises and intermittently release smoke from the gaskets…If you just stop eating so much sugar and as much as possible try to cook things from scratch, or at least eat things where you know precisely what ingredients are in it and how it would have been prepared, you should be able to regain the proper feedback from your gut and have a very healthy relationship to food.
I’d also recommend as often as possible trying to wait to eat until you’re really hungry so you can calibrate your sense of hunger (but like, be smart about it, make sure to eat something if you’re gonna do stuff that needs calories and stable blood sugar levels), and try to taste everything once so your body can associate that thing with the nutrients in it.
Also also try to sneak in vegetables into every meal in some way, even if it’s just adding 2 peas or whatever. That’ll psychologically and physically normalize it, so you start wanting it more. Your gut flora is a pretty significant part of what decides your cravings and if you consistently eat something the gut flora will change to things that like digesting those things and thus make you crave them more.
Are you taking this picture from your bunker?
This is the most depressing lighting I’ve ever seen.
Seriously, it looks like your taking this picture from The Backrooms.
my brother in Christ, the blitz is over, the bombs have stopped - you no longer have to eat like this
On a cut like this you dont want to actually see your food.
Don’t deserve flavour, don’t deserve light.
Most prisons serve better meals than this
The cut would be more successful with more broccoli and no rice, IMO. I’ve had decent success with eliminating all carbs and starches. But for god’s sake use some fucking spices
Seriously do you need a hug? Or some cheffing? If you’re near los angeles, i can just show up and mix some cheap-ass spices for you.
Bro is fucking living in China during the famine, what the fuck
A whole chicken breast during a famine? That sounds luxurious. I was under the impression that animal protein was incredibly rare.
Long pig comes into season eventually
Ah, depression.
My depression is the opposite, cooking and baking fatty foods and eating it all
That’s the coping mechanism, effective or otherwise, not the depression.
Which came first, the eating disorder or the depression?
I think depression? Like, whenever I have a depressive episode, I turn into a slop eating bastard, who goes 22hrs without eating and then overeats within minutes. And bland food as a form of self punishment is also a thing.
Trying to make weight for something or trying to improve your life?
That meal isn’t improving anyone’s life.
It makes me appreciate the food i eat
Billionaire can afford chicken breast for dinner and other cool stories.
The Good old English-like.
This shit is ridiculous. Being a person should not require such nonsense.
