Thanks for reminding me to eat some cookies with the coffee I just made so I could eat some cookies.
Possibly the cruelest irony of adulthood is that autonomy comes with a shit load of terms and conditions.
For instance, I could eat cookies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day if I wanted to. But it would result in diabetes, obesity, and eventually death. So yes, theoretically I could do it. But not if I want to live for very long.
Damn shame too because I have a weakness for chocolate chip cookies.
It’s brutal, isn’t it?
When you realize that your parents also wanted to eat cookies and Ruffles all the time too, but they didn’t want to die early and are just making you eat healthy so you don’t die early.
Ugh…
With great power and all that
Unless you’re metabolically lucky. I’ve been eating whatever I want for decades, and I’m in excellent health and never get fat. In fact I just had a checkup this morning lol. Just random genetics. I shouldn’t gloat but it’s fucking awesome!
I must hate you now. Sorry, dems the rulez!
You sound like this “Unless you are just built different. I’ve been smoking a pack a day for decades and I’m in excellent health. Maybe I should start smoking twice as much.”
ThEy’Re NoT ThE SaMe ThInG!!! <— typical social media mic drop reply
It is nice but we still bloat 😞 stupid summer and my sexy tummy
yes except now I’m fat
I don’t feel fat … but my BMI is obese. And, I feel like I’m “always” hungry. The only thing keeping me at this weight is that I keep up my exercise and just suffer through hunger sometimes. :(
There’s no way I can afford Wegovy, and I’m sure I’d be one of the people that get blinded by it even if I could afford.
I feel like I’m “always” hungry
If I’m hungry, I’ll cut up a banana, an apple, strawberries, and grapes. I toss them and cover them all with some yogurt with a bit of granola. It’s easy to make, it’s a lot of food, and it keeps me from binging on other higher-calorie snacks. I used this to lose some weight a couple of months ago.
I used to snack on dried pineapple or cashews, but I found I was still getting hungry frequently, sometimes within an hour of snacking. I’ve also tried to yogurt and granola snacks, to similar results.
If I don’t just “be hungry”, I overeat.
My “best” snack so far is popcorn, because the kcal/volume is so low, so it takes me longer to eat.
I have chronic pain. I was instructed by the pain clinic I went to, under no uncertain terms, to exercise 5 times a week. No taking a day because I feel sore or tired or because the overwhelming blinding pain is screaming at me not to. I just have to do it.
That was a year ago.
I am still going.
I went from sedentary for a decade to a healthy BMI and muscle mass because of 1 rule.
Don’t let how I feel guide how I act.
Fuck me it was hard. It is hard. It was hard today. It was hard every single day.
I have currently a torn labrum, a torn rotator cuff, 3 torn things in my knee, 4 bulging disks in my back, a herniated disk, arthritis in 5 joints, and a titanium cage holding part of my spine together.
If you can commit to tracking every single thing you eat in the app MyNetDiary ( it scans barcodes and is free), and exercising 5 times a week; I guarantee two things will happen.
1.) I will do the same and have an accountability buddy to keep me going.
2.) You WILL be successful in the weight loss and gaining a healthy life.
Your call if you want to transform your life.
I have PT exercises and low impact options for days. I have whole fitness plans and diet plans from distinctions, and hundreds of hours with PTs. I have so much to share with someone whose life I can help gain so so much…
You just have to commit to joining me.
A year from now you could be vastly different than you are now. So could I. IF we keep our promises to ourselves and one another.
Well, I’m down 100 lbs from where I started. But, between work and caregiver duties, I can usually only get to the gym 3 days a week, and sometimes less.
I buy quinoa and beans in bulk, so there’s not exactly a barcode to scan for those either. I actually need to avoid pre-packaged food even more than I do currently. The low-calorie ones tend to be high sodium, and a lot of just too many calories.
You can input any bulk food and its stats into the tool. I cook most everything I eat. Lots of veggies and chicken.
All my workouts can be done at home with a few inexpensive items.
I’ve done some body-weight stuff (sit-ups, push-ups, squats), but I can’t really get a good aerobic exercise inside the house.
I have a pretty good grasp on what I’m cooking anyway. I have my own spreadsheet where I extracted the Nutritional Information label (or looked up bulk foods on fat secret website), to plan to keep my calories until 14000/wk and keep my sodium down. For me, it was easiest to go vegan: beans, quinoa, greens, nooch, plant milk. I have been eating out more, and that’s no on there, nor do they publish nutritional information (local family chain). But, I also get the “vegetarian” faire there (there’s a white sauce so I’m pretty sure there’s dairy in it) but I know I can skip a couple of my meals to roughly balance that, caloricly at least. That got me down the first hundred. I still need to lose more, but it’s harder now; I used to be closer to a gym… among other things.
Aight. You do you.
I for for a fact I can work anyone breathing to the point they are maxing their heart rate and can’t stand for a half hour after we are done.
If you are not hitting that at home it’s on you.
I did 10 miles today on a stationary bike at a 3 minute mile pace. Then I set target heart rate of 145 and never dropped below it for 1 and a half hours as I did my circuit and strength plan.
Get creative with it. You can use nothing but a foam roll and get a completely wrecking aerobic workout.
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I know I “find” snacks far more often than I need…
I’m absolutely sure I experience “lonely mouth”, but that’s what I mentally refer to a “desire to eat” vs. “hunger”. My desire to eat is nearly unlimited. I’ll literally be leaving a restaurant and start thinking about the next flavor palette to send to my tongue.
No, the hunger I’m currently having problems with is coming from my guts, a tightness or emptiness usually just below the sternum (or as low as my innie), sometimes but not always accompanied by noise that while generally internal-only is sometime externally audible.
I can ignore it. I often initially choose to quiet it through consuming water or other zero-calorie fluids, but when it doesn’t go away within a few minutes of fluid consumption, that approach isn’t going to work. I can just ignore/suffer it; I have done 72-hour fasting before, but I found it neither enjoyable nor very productive (didn’t seem to affect weight loss rate overall). After a while it does fail to distract me as much, but then comes back at irregular intervals.
I know there’s probably a happy medium out there. And, it’s even possible I don’t need to lose quite as much weight as I think. But, I’d really like to have visible abs – I can do 100 body-weight sit-ups, or 190lb. sitting abdominal crunches, but I still have a fat cap that hides whatever muscles are there.
Same, I always feel hungry but if I work out I don’t feel hungry all the time. Funny thing is, finding the time for going to the gym has been difficult since I got RTO’d so my weight has skyrocketed. I have a very fast metabolism where I can gain or lose weight very fast.
My weight also fluctuates more than I’d expect. I take it on the same scale, and the same part of my morning (nearly first thing in the morning, just after I brush my teeth) and I’ll routinely lose more than a pound (or after a bad day, gain more than 10), tho experts really say losing more than about a pound a week is unsustainable.
My first realization that I was truly an adult came when I was in the checkout line at Albertsons, saw a stack of freshly made peach pies, and realized I could just buy one and eat the whole thing, cuz I was a grownup. So I did!
Ooooh how was it?
Fantastic! I pretty much just ate peach pie all weekend. And also, I’ve made tons of pies since then but almost always buy peach pie premade, because peeling and slicing those slippery suckers is a bitch.
Sounds good. I’m going to LA in November peach pie and cobbler are on the must eat list we don’t have anything like that in the UK
Interesting. I didn’t even know cobbler was an American thing.
I remember reading about it in books as a kid, never had it IRL so I’m actually going to live out a childhood dream
LOL it’s super simple, you can actually make it very easily. Anyway I hope it lives up to your expectations. Best way to eat peach cobbler is with vanilla ice cream on top.
Thanks for the pro tip!
I always wanted to grow up so I could eat ice cream whenever I wanted. Welp, grew up, now my tumtum hurts after one scoop. Life’s cruel irony.
Even if it didn’t, you would get fat because of it, or maybe get diabetes
What really grinds my gears is I could have done it when I was young and not suffered any physical consequences. If I do it now I get fat er
Not if you’re trying to care about your health! Dieting is haaaard.
‘Whenever I want’ doesn’t mean every day.
It does if you want cookies every day.
who doesn’t want cookies every day
Me!
Too often and they lose the magic.
Wait till you have the epiphany that you can just bake your own cookies and that it’s not that much of a hassle at all. 🍪👨🍳
Many moons ago, I worked as a realtor, and one of the “tricks” of the trade was to bake cookies before an open house. It makes the house smell great, and you get to give out snacks. It really shattered my internal concept of baking cookies, because I could buy pre-cut cookie dough and a cookie sheet on my way to a house and make delicious, warm cookies in 20 minutes while wearing a suit. No apron, no cleanup, just an increasingly tight pair of suit pants.
Yep. Though the rolls of cookie dough are too tempting to just…eat lol. I buy the cookie mix which is a bit cheaper and doesn’t need refrigerated; a bit messier to prepare though.
Strong agreement on the dough being too tempting as it is. I tried to convince my wife that opened packages of cookie dough will sublimate in the fridge, but she didn’t believe me. And the mixes are great for keeping a variety of cookie flavors in the cupboard, without keeping actual cookies in the house.
Saving this as a career plan “B”
Yep!
Yes but mom gets replaced with guilt and adult responsibility.
And you can’t hide from them as easily.
Idk. Personally I’ve always loved being an adult. The bullshit comes from the world not from me
Also, fried bacon!
Yeah, that way lies diabetes. For some of us.
I love how easy it is to just make cookies yourself too.
The other day, I had ginger cookies smothered in mascarpone for dinner.
That sounds like heaven
I never wanna eat cookies anymore tho 😩
