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CookieCrumbs
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if you'd asked 2 weeks ago I woulda sent you a bag of Christmas cookies. I ate waaaay too many of them.
But red velvet cookies with white chocolate is surprisingly amazing...
Anyway when I started working here I gained like 20lbs. Or near enough. Like every time we had an anniversary or retirement or "moral rousing" event there was cake and cookies. Every summer they'd give us ice cream. And theyd have fund raising bake sales. And our luncheons were always pizza. Oiy office life. The sad thing is that's how they reward us and it kinda works cuz i don't look forward to shit else. And because I'd get bored as fuck I'd often munch out on candy bars and shit.
So near the end of that year I was like "guys plz I can't eat gluten I'll die." And because they want to keep up "moral" they accommodated me by including fruit when they gave us desserts or when we had pizza they'd order wings, when we had olive garden at our Christmas party they got me chicken and potatoes. And I actually did stick to the diet for nearly a year before Christmas rolled back around and I was like ...fuck. COOKIES But by then it was fine. I lost the weight and got into the habit of eating a breakfast of yogurt or fruit and only snacking on granola (the whole grain shit, not the sugary shit), nuts, or peanut butter crackers.
So for work I'd say have something that will accommodate your cravings but elect for healthier options (always have a bar of dark chocolate in my desk) and as for a diet overall - start out more restrictive than you intend to be. Not only does this help you 'detox' but it also helps your tastebuds adjust and appreciate things like fruits and vegetables more.
And speaking of fruits and vegetables, I fell in love with casseroles on my diet. Throw a bunch of veggies or vegetable noodles in with some sauce and it's a casserole . There are also higher calorie bread and fruit varieties that you can make light on sugar but still satisfy a sweet tooth. Plus casseroles are like the easiest shit to make. Get a big glass dish, mix your shit together, throw it in the dish, throw it in the oven, and leave it till it's time to eat it.
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Breakfast is a tough one for me. I usually don't eat it until my first break at work since I never want to get up earlier than I already do, and I only get 15 minutes.
I will never understand this sentiment!
I need to eat ASAP after I wake up.
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Yeah for much of my life I would forego eating until dinner. I still really don't get hungry until later in the day, but like cookiecrumbs said eating is all I have to look forward to at work, especially now that I don't smoke cigarettes. I will show up in the morning and not even be hungry, but I'll already be thinking about lunch because at least it is something to shove into the gaping hole inside me.
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Start small with your changes, work your way up, soon the healthy stuff will be easy, and you'll prefer it over the garbage.
Don't be to hard on yourself, everybody slips up from time to time, the important thing is realizing that if you continue to slip up, you'll be 40 years old and not able to see your penis, that's gotta be like the second death for a guy.
Do what works for you, everyone is different. I have tried eating ways my sibling would eat, but I can't eat like that all the time, but I need some of what he likes occasionally, just not everyday like he does.
Also, people consume healthy stuff in large quantities, and they think that just because it's considered healthy, then it's OK, but you can still become overweight by smashing healthy stuff.
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I gotta stop putting maple syrup on my oatmeal squares and Raisin Bran
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moonrockmushy said:
Breakfast is a tough one for me. I usually don't eat it until my first break at work since I never want to get up earlier than I already do, and I only get 15 minutes.
I will never understand this sentiment!
I need to eat ASAP after I wake up.
It's the same for me generally except just after my period, then my appetite plummets for about a week which is great. Then I become ravenous again for the rest of the month and breakfast is an absolute MUST! I think it's a hormonal thing (definitely for me anyway).
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CookieCrumbs
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For thde most part I physically can't eat as soon as I wake up. And generally I can't do a carb or meat heavy breakfast. Stomach gets angry. Which is why I usually eat fruit or yogurt.
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Yeah the only time I ever eat a real breakfast is when I can lay in bed and rest for a couple hours after waking, otherwise I don't really crave anything other than black coffee. I'm tempted to put an electric kettle and french press right next to my bed actually, because so often I want coffee but don't want to leave bed to get it.
I've never really been a morning eater, and my sister is the same way, so I think it is genetic. Sometimes I will make myself eat an orange or a banana or a granola bar or something like that if I am feeling peckish, but I never want a meal.
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Eat a banana with peanut butter in the morning. Goes down easy, is good protein and a decent amount of calories and it'll warm your stomach up for when you get home from work so you can eat a lot more than you would have been able to
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I don't like the texture of most yogurt. I wish I did because it seems like a really healthy food that I want to eat more of.
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CookieCrumbs
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I don't like the texture of plain yogurt all that much either. I usually have fruit and granola in it. Isn't nearly so overwhelming that way.
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moonrockmushy
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goldcaphunter said: I don't like the texture of most yogurt. I wish I did because it seems like a really healthy food that I want to eat more of.
You ever try keffir or w/e it is called? It's like liquid yogurt. Pretty good.
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goldcaphunter said: I don't like the texture of most yogurt. I wish I did because it seems like a really healthy food that I want to eat more of.
You ever try keffir or w/e it is called? It's like liquid yogurt. Pretty good.
I have not. But I have been thinking about making that mushroom keffir someone around here posted a tek for not long ago.
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moonrockmushy
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are we talking store mushrooms or poop variety? Either way I'm intrigued.
Anyway I made it another day without a drink and only ate fresh foods. I did have a soda with lunch but it was a local craft root beer, so I think it qualifies as a vegetable or something.
Breakfast- Bread and cheese (just a tiny bit of cheese, and also some jalapeno stuffed olives in brine or w/e olives come in)
Lunch- Couple slices of roast beef and a potato
Dinner- Soup with a little french bread
Just had the rest of my french bread and an avocado, a carrot, and might have a little chips and pineapple salsa or celery and PB if I can't fall asleep soon. Not even really hungry just bored. I wonder if it would actually be healthier to take up smoking cigs again I'm gonna try and weigh myself tomorrow so I can track any progress, but I always forget to do it on one of the scales at work.
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Psilocybe varieties. Also I fuckin love root beeeeer! Jalapeño stuffed olives are also fuckin delicious. I've been smoking again lately. Already I've noticed a marked decrease in my exercise intensity output :/
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goldcaphunter said: I don't like the texture of most yogurt. I wish I did because it seems like a really healthy food that I want to eat more of.
You ever try keffir or w/e it is called? It's like liquid yogurt. Pretty good.
I enjoy the taste of kefir a lot, but it is usually sky high in sugar.
I like to put roasted peanuts in my banana yogurt
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So I'm 205#. More than I'd thought. It's funny because sometime in December I joked that if I keep eating like shit I will break 200 by the new year, and apparently I made it.
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Have you tried intermittent fasting at all?
I guess the science behind it is that humans never evolved to eat at regular intervals, we just eat when foods available (which is way instant snacks and fast food are so appealing, instant calories = short-term survival and reproduction). There's lots of stuff online about it, anyway it's really helped me.
Usually I have my first meal at 2-3PM (trying to get to 4PM) and finish eating around 8-9.
Good luck on your journey
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If I don't eat and I've been up all night I get sick. Like rn I'm forcing down a piece of after one hour sleep last night.
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shroomdood said: Have you tried intermittent fasting at all?
I guess the science behind it is that humans never evolved to eat at regular intervals, we just eat when foods available (which is way instant snacks and fast food are so appealing, instant calories = short-term survival and reproduction). There's lots of stuff online about it, anyway it's really helped me.
Usually I have my first meal at 2-3PM (trying to get to 4PM) and finish eating around 8-9.
Good luck on your journey
I disagree. I would imagine, most of the time, that the early humans did have regular food sources, they were expert hunter-gatherers and finding "snacks" would have been easy, excluding rare situations like natural disasters and travelling through harsher environments. It's why our bodies are so efficient at storing excess nutrients and macros, so we can use use it (fat) when we really needed it.
I could see any fasting being counter productive for people who live healthy to be healthy (e.g. build muscle, speed, endurance, etc, etc) and not just to lose weight for aesthetics  And considering Moon is trying to recover from addictions/lifes issues, his body needs valuable micro and macro nutrients to recover.
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