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Imagine having to force yourself to chew and swallow substances because you will die otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Literally everything is weird in the wrong context.

For reference just look at animals and consider octopus sex, snail sex, baby deer pooping, etc

Also, it's not just eating, but the mouth itself is horrific with no context. We have a wet textured hole that we use often and casually insert metal spikes into, that sits right next to out most sensitive organ (eyes) and most critical organ (brain) and to add horror to it, we also casually grow rocks in our hole to grind and rip anything we insert into it, also we early on lose these rocks just to grow bigger ones, but only once. Also we have 4 extra rocks that we really don't want or need but we still grow them a decade or two after we are done growing rocks, and all they do it hurt us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Sex as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

One of the strategies for long term weight loss is to swap from an interesting and tasty diet (which are often high calorie density) to one as bland and uninteresting to you as possible diet (often low calorie density). Idea being you will eat less if you are only eating to survive rather eating to enjoy, you will leave more on the plate.

Personally I say fuck that, as life is hard enough as it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I tried this with potatoes. It's miserable and I broke after four days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

just eating potatoes for every meal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yep. Only potatoes and salt, plus multivitamins to make up for the massive nutritional defecit, for 5 days. I was already experimenting with an elimination diet due to food allergies and a friend mentioned this week long potato diet to help reduce food cravings. Potatoes were a safe food so I thought I'd give it a try.

It was awful. Day 4's dinner was an entire pizza.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah that's not the same thing as a bland food diet, that's up there with the cabbage diet for how awful it is.

Mine is: Scrambled eggs made with cottage cheese + porridge for breakfast Chicken, salad (no dressing) and rice for lunch Chicken, vegetables and rice/sweet potatoes/lentils for tea

No sauces, just dry herbs/spices as a rub.

Snacks are two protein shakes, naked bar (counts as a one a day of fruit/veg allowance), banana.

Repeat for past two years. Before that it was lentils, avo, boiled egg, before than goats cheese salad for lunch.

Its boring as fuck when you do it for months at a time but it works for me. Controlling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

Based on context clues, you’re British… isn’t the food bland enough already? I kid, I had great food over there. But, you know, take the shot when you see it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

Yeah we stole all our good food from our former colonies and improved on them, see curry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The only strategy to a long term weight loss is a diet you can maintain and only eating bland food is not it. That would work if no other food was available but that is not the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Only a small percentage of people keep weight off long term, Ive seen figures around 20% so whatever works for you is the right answer but its unlikely to be the same solution for the rest of your life. Its a higher relapse rate than alcoholics.

Speaking from experience, if you only buy healthy food it massively reduces the attack vector of unhealthy food, and by unhealthy I mean calorie dense food that leads to relapse due to its high processed sugar content.

If I am eating clean then everybody else in the house is eating clean, its no different from an alcoholic needing no alcohol on the house. Obviously food exists outside the house as well, but its about reducing your exposure to it as much as possible, which includes avoiding majority of restaurants.

Unless you have a problem with over consumption of food its very hard for people to directly equate it to an addiction. When people who can self regulate food intake, who have never had to diet in their life, try to give diet advice its like a fish giving running advice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

My two takes on this:

  1. food is fuel

I can and do subsist on a basic and bland diet if necessary. Food is a way to preserve my existence, so I have to eat. And when hungry I will eat anything for the sole sake of keep myself functioning. Some exceptions do apply.

  1. we're biologically hardwired to seek pleasure from our food

That is why sugary food and more simply fruits and berries appeal so much to us: it's sweet, it tastes good, it's nice.

We actively seek enjoyement in eating. When this no longer happens, worry yourself. Even old people enjoy eating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

I’ve met people who claim they don’t enjoy eating and only do it because they have to. Often, they’re the same people who use that Soylent stuff. I can’t comprehend that mindset. I spend most of my day looking forward to my next meal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

have ever lost your appetite from an infection, i did from the flu in 2018, it was very hard to keep eating, and it wasnt enjoyable and i would stop eating for that meal. it was a very unusual experience, since the flu was so much severe than previous ones.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

For me eating is just a chore. Yeah I'm under weight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Right there with you. I can't wait to be able to take all my nutrition in a pill form.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

Not the person you’re replying to but I’m the same as them. For me it’s neither of those options. There just isn’t anything I go out of my way for. I mean sure, I have preferences like anybody else but I’m the person that can eat the same thing 10+ times in a row and that’s totally fine. It’s more or less all the same to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (10 children)

Nothing tastes good and never hungry

If you watch the clip of David Lynch explaining why he eats the same thing every day, basically that, I just can't be bothered

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Which reminds me... I'm too depressed to have energy to eat, survival is a struggle.

Somebody please shoot me lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

Username checks out. And no.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 14 hours ago (18 children)

I had a friend who pretty much only eats because he knows if he does not he will die. He is perpetually underweight. He just does not enjoy eating at all. Even foods he enjoys he hates to eat.

Meanwhile, I am over here knowing I am full and standing in the fridge to see what I can make to eat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I would not eat nor sleep if it wasn't mandatory. I consider both chores and waste of time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Sounds a lot like me. Especially when I was a child, I was extremely underweight because of this. I rarely had any appetite to eat, and when I did, I got full after just a few bites. Talked to several therapists, no one was able to diagnose me.

Nowadays it's better. I eat as much and as often as possible, to the point of almost feeling sick, and I'm barely able to keep a healthy weight. Sometimes I wish I had problems with being overweight instead, since that's at least 10x easier to combat. Although, I bet life is easier being underweight than being overweight, as I've always been decently athletic with barely any training.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Felt. I like the taste of certain foods, but like I do feel like it’s a chore a lotta days

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

I felt like this when I was bulking and eating healthy. Eating 5k Calories of healthy food a day is a fucking chore.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

I guess we evolved to enjoy eating; those that didn't enjoy it didn't live as long

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine having to force yourself to chew and swallow substances because you will die otherwise.

How would it be different than breathing then? I don't get actual pleasure out of breathing, but its not a chore either. If I don't breath, I will die.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

We get good chemicals when we get enough air. I'm quite addicted myself.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago

All the biological processes are like that. pooping. sex. you think about sex without being horny and its like. I do that?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Whenever some fundie says something about sexual education, replace it with food in the argument.

Nutritional education should be a private matter between a parent and child.

Teaching about food in school encourages kids to eat more food.

We don't make this sort of argument about literally any other subject. The very fact that they make these arguments shows they are putting sex in a special place, and will be completely incompetent at actually talking to their kids about sex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Have you read the book Project Hail Mary?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I like the one about people having floppy teeth that get hard when they see good food.

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