This picture oozes such self-loathing it’s concerning.
Cutting sucks
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
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
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you were never fat, why are you trying to lose 20+ pounds?
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ed needs to suck it up for the sake of all that is Mexican.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Also username
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
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.”
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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”.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Meh. Everything in moderation. Including self-imposed suffering. Sleep late. Eat tasty food. Have days where you just exist. Fuel is for cars.
cheloxin@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
vroom vroom
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It does make those cheat days 100x more special though.
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Sounds like self-inflicted stockholm syndrome, tbh.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
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.
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.
iveseenthat@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Dude, that plate is upside down! The vegetables! So much carbs!
Cutting what? Money? Flavor? Health? Or happiness?
sockman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I can’t get over the broccoli portion!! I eat 20 times that!
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Once during the early pandemic, I inadvertently received 12 pounds of frozen broccoli from a grocery delivery (~5,5 kilos). I have never been too full for a piece of broccoli, and didn’t have the space in my freezer for all of it, so I decided to make a huge amount and see how much I could actually eat.
I made 6 pounds (roasted with spices and a little olive oil) and ate it all without issue. I honestly could have eaten more, but I was a little worried about causing myself digestive issues. I didn’t have any, even though doing the math, I was over 4% broccoli afterwards.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I’m cutting as well, and this plate is scarily similar to where I’ve landed for my meal prep. Pretty much chicken and rice, but I at least do a rub or marinade.
iveseenthat@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I mean, boiled breast? Eeewww! There are so many other better ways of making it!
gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Yeah it’s insane honestly. My own meals are probably like 70% vegetable or something. A lot of people already eat very few vegetables in my opinion, but OP really goes beyond that in this case. Bland, tasteless, and not even healthy
Alteon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
my brother in Christ, the blitz is over, the bombs have stopped - you no longer have to eat like this
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 2 weeks ago
Hail Satan.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Don’t deserve flavour, don’t deserve light.
Delphia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
On a cut like this you dont want to actually see your food.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Mental illness is a struggle we all must face at some point my brother
renzev@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks 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.
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
And this is why a lot of fit people have terrible eating disorders. Don’t do this, just control portions.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks 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?
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Most prisons serve better meals than this
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I bet most have gyms as well.
fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I will come to your residence and cook for you. I can make something tasty and healthy. Please don’t do this to yourself, I’m having a hard time not driving off a cliff due to witnessing this. I would be upset, but I’m too sad and disturbed. At least, the very least, black pepper. I’m begging you.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is this a general offer? Because that offer sounds kind of incredible.
fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I mean, with the economy the way it is, there’s some stipulations, but technically yes lol
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Saaaaame. I will feed you good healthy food and it won’t even be sxpensive. I’ll show you how to make it. Fuck, i’ll show you how to put a couple pots and a grow light in your kitchen so you always have some fucking electrolyte heavy veggies to snack on.
fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Love it! I have some seeds, but I have yet to grow them. Some heirloom white habaneros and blackberries, etc.
Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bro is fucking living in China during the famine, what the fuck
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
A whole chicken breast during a famine? That sounds luxurious. I was under the impression that animal protein was incredibly rare.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Long pig comes into season eventually
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The Good old English-like.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Seriously do you need a hug? Or some cheffing? What part of the world are you in? Lets work this out.
belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Ah, depression.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My depression is the opposite, cooking and baking fatty foods and eating it all
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
That’s the coping mechanism, effective or otherwise, not the depression.
Tired@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Which came first, the eating disorder or the depression?
belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This shit is ridiculous. Being a person should not require such nonsense.
60d@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Billionaire can afford chicken breast for dinner and other cool stories.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Trying to make weight for something or trying to improve your life?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That meal isn’t improving anyone’s life.
Sonor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It makes me appreciate the food i eat
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I thought that was mashed potatoes.
untorquer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bro doesn’t shit for weeks at a time.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is from people with the mindset of “food is fuel” and they’re trying to take the pleasure out of eating.
I mean I get it. You’re trying to eat healthy but you don’t have to punish yourself over it. I can make a fantastic salad with air fryer well spiced chicken.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
No?
They’re not trying to take the pleasure out of eating, they’re trying to get as massive as they possibly can. Which, yes, does take the pleasure out of eating. However, their mindset is almost certainly “I have eaten this exact meal 647 times in the past year, I must get bigger, I must get bigger, I must get bigger.”
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes and no. You’re correct about people skipping seasoning while bulking up. Which is what this looks like based on the protein bottle in the background.
I’ve also spoken to someone in person and online that skip seasoning while just trying to eat healthier.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
there’s no reason you have to skip making the food taste good just because you’re eating a lot, if you’re eating more then you’re gonna need more salt, and other spices aren’t something you can have too much of unless you’re snorting nutmeg…
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
consider that a chicken died for this and the least you can do is actually enjoy it
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A fellow member of boiled, unsalted chicken club!
Don’t forget the tabasco.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Take a second. You’re cutting yourself, and your spices, but realize that if you haven’t raped kids, you’re literally, OBJECTIVELY better than the president of the United States of America.
I don’t know if you care, but I think everyone having a hard time needs to hear this. We’re all better than the people in charge of the wealthiest and most dangerous country in the entire world.
This is such a fucking dark time to be alive. It fucking sucks. But, if you’re hurting, you’re likely better than the worst people out there. Because they aren’t hurting. As long as you can feel these things, you likely always will be better. Even if you do nothing but survive, you’re better than these awful fucking monsters that are literally destroying this world for future generations.
Don’t let you out anyone else convince you otherwise. This is for everyone reading this. We’re all fucking better. Make yourself a nice fucking meal, you deserve it.
PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lil soy saus? no?
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
England buddy noooo
9point6@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s like 5 calories of broccoli with all those nutrients, but like 350 of basically empty carbs.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Carbs are required for muscle building.
troglodyke@lemmy.federate.cc 2 weeks ago
Yeah, when I’m cutting I’ll do a fuck load of seitan, cut out the rice and have 300g of broccoli, with a flavoured with a ton of spices. Genuinely tasty and something I enjoy, cutting doesn’t need to be punishment.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
More like 40 but same difference
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Tasty food just makes you want to eat more.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not if you fill up with tasty fibre rich food
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Everyone has different nutritional needs. If you’re doing chicken and protein, 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.
nelly_man@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What does that have to do with seasoning?