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lol, some people are so preachy about “food is fuel” and that you are only healthy, if you have a stoic mindset about food, and claim that it’s not good even if you still eat mostly unprocessed whole foods but arrange them/cook them so that they still satisfy you psychologically.
Lesson learned: just worry about what you eat, lol, at least for me, and not having big stress-eating episodes, going easy on added sugar, learning to eat in a deficit consistently when I don’t have plans involving food*, and not a perfect relationship with food too.
*A deficit matters even for just maintenance, most of the time, if you love to have a good time XD, and save hundreds of calories before those events. Not as much as just managing stress eating, though, which will save thousands of calories a week for me.
People who preach “food is fuel,” don’t eat that way 100 percent of the time usually, just, for example, breakfast and sometimes dinner most days, but still eating standard food for lunch and treats after dinner.
Diet Calendar Entry for 31 March 2024:
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1918 kcal
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Fat: 50.48g | Prot: 80.67g | Carb: 310.65g.
Breakfast: Milk (Nonfat) , Coffee, Bagel. Lunch: Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise, Dave's Killer Bread Plain Awesome Bagels, Bananas , Natural Ovens Bakery Organic 100% Whole Grain Wheat Bread, Pita's Gourmet Mediterranean Foods Original Hummus, Cherry Tomatoes. Dinner: Thyme (Dried) , Onion Powder , Black Pepper , Maria and Ricardo's Fiber Rich Whole Wheat Tortillas , Meijer Starlight Mints, Carrots, Cherry Tomatoes, Lettuce, Green Peas (Frozen) , Tea (Brewed) , Lensi Red Lentil Pasta, Maranatha All Natural Creamy Almond Butter. more...
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I'll be eating lots of non fuel today 🤣
31 Mar 24 by member: ObeseToBeast123
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ObeseToBeast, that sounds fun!
I have to be in a deficit today, even if I plan to maintain and not lose in the long run, which is the exact opposite of what I’m used to doing when I’m bored XD!
Lots of non-fuel when I hang out with certain friends though later on this week, the ones who are more into food, some more than others lol!!!
31 Mar 24 by member: LaineAndTheDog98
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Laine you have a funny sense of humor and I like it ! I think our food choices are much more important than just the calories they contain. Food is the only fuel and nutrition we put in our body. Should it be more than just fuel ? Yes…at times it’s celebratory, experimental, entertaining and comforting. I also have looked at some food journals if they are handing out diet and health advice. For what it’s worth even though I don’t post all my daily meals what I do post represents how I eat 95 % of the time. Sometimes I even share that other 5 %. Stay funny !!
31 Mar 24 by member: honeebuns
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Food is the centerpiece of almost every family and social gathering. Nothing wrong with enjoying yourself in those situations, and nothing wrong with enjoying food. All things in moderation, including moderation itself 😎 I say that somewhat jokingly but also a little bit seriously. Keep your trends over the long term on the right track and you’ll do great, going off the rails once in a while won’t ruin anything. Everyone preaching is just looking for attention, this is a calorie tracking app but it’s also social media, people are gonna do social media behavior 🤷♀️
31 Mar 24 by member: ddrudd
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I already lifted for 1.5 hours now im on the treadmill doing an incline run. I'll have lots of calories to play with but ultimately family time and fun later
31 Mar 24 by member: ObeseToBeast123
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I find lots of "preachy people" in all various forms of this change in our way of life in all sorts of venues. My adage is "you do you, I do me" meaning what works for you will most likely not work for me. And for me, I'm okay with that. For others not so much...lol.
31 Mar 24 by member: Heather MacD
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ObeseToBeast, I went on a good walk yesterday, but didn’t do the bike like I said I would XD. I’ll do both today. I’m walking more than before…walking isn’t much when it’s the sidewalk, but when it’s a park trail with a good incline, it is a lot—that’s a different kind of walking. I’ve maintained but dropped two sizes—from a 10 to a 6–from powerwalking, even with some crazy episodes with stress eating.
I don’t expect progress if I eat like this much longer, exactly the opposite, like I would gain weight in the next few months, so I’ll nip that in the bud too. I’ve at least tried, though—eaten a better variety of fruits and vegetables, even if the amount of them was never a weak point for me, and more whole grains, because I’m not low carb.
31 Mar 24 by member: LaineAndTheDog98
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very true there are some diehards about how to eat "properly". Then theres diablo who posts donut photos sooo its all balance and discovering your path and what's efficient for your lifestyle!! if someone purposely asks for tips im more then happy to give them, theres always different ways to view things. I've been on both sides of the fence "fit and trim" in my boxing prime while studying nutrition in college and now healing disordered eating along with obesity for my height.
31 Mar 24 by member: DAZEY_iz_Well
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I can relate. My new boss is very into food shaming me. Telling me I’m on my way to diabetes. I ignore her. And you should ignore those people too. If what they say gets under your skin take a minute and understand why. I was sensitive to her words in the beginning because I was frustrated with the weight loss but realized that it was just that and knew she didn’t have the whole picture and her opinion didn’t matter to me.
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Thx, guys! I just had a lapse with food, but called it “lunch,” because I ate lunch at this hour in 7th and 8th grade lol and was in good shape (thanks, mandatory PE class plus working out after school every single day)!
I even kind of did it on purpose—noticed I already had a boredom craving at 10:20 AM, so figured, better to eat a big, not-so-healthy, carby but not sugary lunch, and eat at a deficit for the whole day anyway, than to binge on double those calories in cereal and ice cream after dinner and have a massive surplus.
I planned a meal for dinner that I *used to* consider healthy before I researched nutrition more.
31 Mar 24 by member: LaineAndTheDog98
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When I was a teenager, I ate more meat than I do now, ate sweets every single day and considered them just snacks, loved food so much, and probably only ate 2,000 calories a day (which sounds just right for an active adult, but too little for a teenager, but I was more active than most adults, but didn’t play sports like the other kids). I ate things that were considered healthy back then, but not now because people preach stricter nutrition than 10 years ago. I looked great. Would I eat meat like people did back then? No, but I could do the rest lol. 2,000-ish is still not too much for me, because I am active by post-pandemic standards lol.
31 Mar 24 by member: LaineAndTheDog98
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Food is fuel, can’t argue with that. The laws of nature requires you to expend calories to get calories. Human society has changed that or should I say currency changesd that. Where one can expend very little calories and get and abundance in return. And that’s where the problem lies. That’s where the unbalance happens. Food is celebratory cuz once upon a time it was scarce and takes a lot of work to gather. So when people have it, they have great joy in sharing and filling their bellies
31 Mar 24 by member: Supergainz1
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And my gym coach praised me for working hard in PE class and talking about after school workouts even if I was less active than the other kids, because still being more active than the average adult, is more sustainable than hours and hours of sports!!!
Sorry about the 3 comments in a row. I just would love to be like I was in high school—minus the bits of time when I had a really bad relationship with food, because that wasn’t so good.
31 Mar 24 by member: LaineAndTheDog98
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Probably part of the issue with comments about others' food (life?) choices may be that it's easier ti look at someone else than objectively look at one's self, hmm.
31 Mar 24 by member: GopherIt2
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I know! I almost planned something that was “2010-healthy” when no one cared enough lol, but…decided I should plan something “2019-healthy” which is still less strict than today—not that anyone follows that, they just preach it and eat fries 😂😂😂. Like I do too often, until now. I will take a photo of it and show it sometime this week. Red lentil pasta and veggies, with tomato sauce, is on the menu for dinner, and considered healthy just 5 years ago.
Take that, people who think they should be raw vegan* but eat burgers and fries because they almost give up (me in the past)!!!
*Unless you are actually raw vegan and it’s healthy for you—congrats, JustBananas! And I mean it! Great discipline.
31 Mar 24 by member: LaineAndTheDog98
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Food is ✨ happiness ✨, being fuel is secondary :)
31 Mar 24 by member: Stankunas
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Edit: this post will not age well as I get older, and also would not apply if I had ever been extremely obese, which I haven’t. I read a few humbling posts by members who have to take things more seriously than most, just now, and are not just preachy, but actually have to take it seriously. It scared the shit out of me, how much I am avoiding.
Off this app and about to sing, 🎶, which is, believe it or not, exercise for me just because I pace fast while I sing. More exercise than that walk in the park, is the least I can do!!!!
31 Mar 24 by member: LaineAndTheDog98
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Imagine missing out on the pleasures of foods thinking you have to not enjoy the foods you eat for it to be healthy and finding out it doesn’t make an impact. I’ve eaten a boring strict diet for the sake of health, and when I over ate on it I still gained weight and got unhealthy. I’m currently eating tasty meals, fast foods from time to time, 2 cans of soda everyday(cured my gerd), baked goods for preworkouts. It’s the diet that made me switched to the “healthy” one to try to be healthy. Only this time I balance it with lifting. And what do you know, I feel strong n healthy. Even at a higher weight than when I was unhealthy.
31 Mar 24 by member: Supergainz1
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I know.
In order to get into a “maintenance deficit” lol to compensate for any surpluses, I might do exercise past just moderation, of just cutting back. “Moderation” with exercise is a cop-out for me, but good for some people. I am fortunate that I am physically healthy enough that “moderation” is too little exercise for me.
05 Apr 24 by member: LaineAndTheDog98
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