Comment on Cutting sucks
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I never understood why all the gym people I see in work seems to eat food with the flavour removed, like some paprika or pepper might ruin everything.
As some who has eaten like that before, I can speak for myself a little bit. Food is fuel and construction material. I need the nutrition to operate my body. Nothing more. The less I think about what it tastes like the more I can think about it as numbers on a spreadsheet.
That being said if I were OP I’d invest in a slow cooker and yes, some paprika. Maybe some dehydrated garlic.
Mental illness is a struggle we all must face at some point my brother
Food is fuel and construction material.
I live in the netherlands rn and basically at some point in history there was a guy called Calvin who convinced almost everybody to see food this way. To this day traditional dutch food is the blandest, saddest assortment of dishes imaginable. Thank god for immigrants bringing in some flavour.
Just smear some herring on it
Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
From personal experience its because we like food way to much. Its harder to eat less when the food tastes good. I found it was much easier when I treated food like an activity I had to force myself to do. I’d just cook some meat and boil some mixed veggies and then force it down. I was eating like 200-500g of pasta and almost a kg of food for dinner I felt so fucking sick after every meal.
At that point even if I seasoned the chicken I was so sick of it that I would still not enjoy it.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
i’m very confused as to what point you’re making here, first you seem to say you want to eat less and then you seem to say you wanted to eat way way more than a normal portion?
Fizz@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
Because i was training a lot at the time i had to eat a lot more to not lose weight. But also when I’m cutting and want to lose weight the same applies. I just dont want to see eating as an enjoyable activity or its all that will be on my mind.
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And this is why a lot of fit people have terrible eating disorders. Don’t do this, just control portions.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
I’d rather have an eating disorder when I’m choosing to eat clean healthy food in the exact amount i want than eating to much unhealthy food and being unable to control my weight.
However i dont class that as an eating disorder. Its fine to make the choice to put minimal effort into food. Especially when it becomes such an unenjoyable part of the day. And you have to eat big to get big 💪
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There is a big gap between eating like shit and putting some pepper on your chicken. If you literally can’t control yourself around food that is a problem and creating unhealthy eating habits to avoid that problem isn’t the solution… Unless you plan on forcing yourself to eat flavourless food for the rest of your life.
It is, and it only gets worse the longer you do it; please find a healthier solution before a bad habit becomes a full blown disorder.
Again putting seasoning on your food isn’t a complicated process, and forcing yourself to eat flavourless food every single day is definitely unhealthy. If you really struggle with self control around food then speak with someone about that problem instead; imagine eating tasty, healthy food in moderation.