#diet cw

[on-a-lucky-tide]

going on anon cause i'm a coward of a mutual, but i went and ate out of my deficit for today. i feel like i'm improving but i still slip up at least once a week. any tips on how to get back on the horse and stay there, just like habit wise?

Go for the 80%, 20% rule.

80% of your diet needs to be on point. Fresh food eaten for nutritional value with a view of meeting your macros and calorie intake. 20% of your diet should be fun (and planned for within your goals). They call it a "cheat meal" but I don't see it as that because it's not cheating, it's a conscious choice to give your body something it needs. Because fitness is all about overall wellbeing; if you're miserable as fuck all the time, then your wellbeing isn't good. The 20% is a necessary adjustment. I'll have a Snickers bar if I want it, or reward myself with a Chinese on a Sunday.

When I know I've got a big meal coming up, I'll cut my calories a bit more on other days to balance the week. It keeps me in an overall deficit for that week and still lets me enjoy the meal with my mates.

What you're not gonna do is go "well, fuck it, I'm over so I might as well just--" Nope. You get right back on track straight away. You don't tip your entire coffee over the floor because you spilled a single drop; don't jettison your goals because you went over on a single day. Getting stuck in an endless loop of "I've fucked up on Thursday, I'll start again on Monday" is where most people fail to meet their goals.

[cosmogyros]

I'm starting to think the "daily recommended amount of fiber" is a big old prank that the world is playing on me

[knownqueerbaiter]

the macros on those ultra-filtered milkshakes genuinely feel like cheating. wdym this has one gram of sugar and like 80% of my daily protein and it actually tastes good and it doesn’t make my tummy hurt. how is that possible. that can’t be right. feels like a hack

[skeletonislandtheme]

I’m on the hunt for those like shelf stable packets of usually Indian or otherwise legume-based meals for a backpacking trip because they’re so much cheaper than real backpacking food (also heavier but whatever) but like. it’s SO hard to find ones that even crack 300 calories. 300 calories is not a meal! are you supposed to be eating seven of these thangs a day. some of them even say “2 servings” and let me tell you, half of 250 calories is DEFINITELY not a meal.

[wellmetmat]

Human weight examples for calibration, for @nohoperadio's interest. Under a cut for anyone who doesn't want to see discussion of people's weights and figures. Probably not interesting to anyone else, and potentially annoying to some.

My mother used to be about 5'5" (it's less now with age). She's been slim and dainty her whole life. Her weight was 48-54kg for as long as she was comfortably slim, not frail.

A favourite jiu-jitsu classmate was a man visually on the small side of medium, about 5'8", slim, energetic, wiry and light-feeling. He weighed 62kg.

I am 5'5" or just over, and I think describable as stocky. Neither fat nor lean. Very medium. (But I would say that, I suppose.) I weigh 65kg.

An ordinarily lean young man of medium male height, 5'9" or 5'10"?, is often around 70kg. (Taken from various examples: classmates, mentions of soldiers in my grandfather's day, a dieting coworker.)

A female amateur MMA fighter I met (when she trounced me in every round of a BJJ competition) was about 5'4", really lean, and very muscular. She weighed, i.i.r.c, 68kg.

My father was 5'11" and sporty, but didn't lift weights (I think most modern sportily inclined people do, at least as cross-training). He weighed around 75kg.

My brother is 6'0", fit and well proportioned. His weight gradually rose to 85kg from the high seventies after he started focusing on weightlifting instead of less static sports. He looks a lot like a classical statue now.

My friendly coworker is 6'0", very strong and normally active, but struggles perpetually with weight gain (as many of us do). Picture a strong barrel-bodied construction worker. He fights to stay down at 100kg, and it often gets back to 110.

A krav maga teacher I knew was 6'4". He didn't mention what he normally weighed, but I saw a video of him when he'd starved himself down to 91kg for a boxing match, and he looked too thin for comfort. Not emaciated, he had plenty of muscle, but it had clearly been a severe effort. I think at his height and level of muscle development 100kg was probably his usual.

@nohoperadio, hopefully the handful of examples contains someone you can position yourself in relation to, if you want. I'm fascinated that you've never thought about it or heard other people talking about it!

[mathematicallychallengedlesbian]

middle aged women will go from ‘😘🥰 love ur body sweetie!!!! it’s for your health ❤️😍’ to ‘MY daughter eating food???? watch your waistline honey ❤️’ in minutes and i think this is the way everyone tries to hide middle school style bullying over people’s weight as ‘health concerns’ because i’ve never seen this much health concern over people smoking

[clawdee]

Food/diet talk:

Super forcing myself back on my diabetic diet and to not spend so much on take out and cut out caffeine again 😔 and waking up by no later than 10 and going to bed by 1am at the latest, and when I don't work-taking a 15-30 minute walk after all meals on my poor neglected treadmill

Like yeah my blood sugar numbers are looking good, but I'd like to get back down to at least 250lb and just maintain. Also try to build upper body muscles, maybe some thigh/glute muscles.

[crvwly]

my partner and i both need to work on our "bad cholesterol" intake and part of that is reducing saturated fat intake and this tips section alone is going to kill me faster than the eventual heart disease