It’s an interesting and plausible claim that eating plain food is better than fighting your appetite. I tend to believe it. I’m curious how you handle eating as a social occasion; do you avoid it or go ahead and eat differently when there’s a social occasion without it disrupting your diet or appetite?
Your boy slop also happens to follow my dietary theory.
I’m embarassed to share my diet philosophy but I’m going to anyway. It’s embarassing because I am in fact modestly overweight. I feel it’s still worth sharing as a datapoint for its strengths: I am only modestly overweight despite aging (50), doing nearly no exercise since lockdown, and most importantly eating whatever I want whenever I want—absolutely no fighting my own appetite. And I haven’t put much effort into optimizing it, so there are probably easy gains if somebody did. With the caveats out of the way:
Eat more vegetables and fewer carbs than you’re offered by default.
The theory here is that all calories are equal WRT raw weight gain, but carbs are processed quickly so you feel hungrier sooner. Nutrition science is a mess but this appears to be highly plausible given the data. I haven’t dug down, but this matches my experience.
Eating veggies is compensated for by being allowed as much fat, salt, and spices as you want to make them flavorful. Salads are amazing with lots of dressing, cheeses and nuts and maybe some happy meat (better yet without the cruel joke of greens). Cook those veggies and they’re even better: Vegetable-based stir fries, curries and soups are easy: add butter/oil salt and spices until they tast good. (and some happy meat if your voracity has overcome your ethics, as mine often does). It is hard to find this while eating out, but the point is to just trend in this direction when it’s easy. So I crave veggie-rich dishes as much as anything else, and often choose them.
There’s my embarrassing $.02 on rationalist eating.
It’s an interesting and plausible claim that eating plain food is better than fighting your appetite. I tend to believe it. I’m curious how you handle eating as a social occasion; do you avoid it or go ahead and eat differently when there’s a social occasion without it disrupting your diet or appetite?
Your boy slop also happens to follow my dietary theory.
I’m embarassed to share my diet philosophy but I’m going to anyway. It’s embarassing because I am in fact modestly overweight. I feel it’s still worth sharing as a datapoint for its strengths: I am only modestly overweight despite aging (50), doing nearly no exercise since lockdown, and most importantly eating whatever I want whenever I want—absolutely no fighting my own appetite. And I haven’t put much effort into optimizing it, so there are probably easy gains if somebody did. With the caveats out of the way:
Eat more vegetables and fewer carbs than you’re offered by default.
The theory here is that all calories are equal WRT raw weight gain, but carbs are processed quickly so you feel hungrier sooner. Nutrition science is a mess but this appears to be highly plausible given the data. I haven’t dug down, but this matches my experience.
Eating veggies is compensated for by being allowed as much fat, salt, and spices as you want to make them flavorful. Salads are amazing with lots of dressing, cheeses and nuts and maybe some happy meat (better yet without the cruel joke of greens). Cook those veggies and they’re even better: Vegetable-based stir fries, curries and soups are easy: add butter/oil salt and spices until they tast good. (and some happy meat if your voracity has overcome your ethics, as mine often does). It is hard to find this while eating out, but the point is to just trend in this direction when it’s easy. So I crave veggie-rich dishes as much as anything else, and often choose them.
There’s my embarrassing $.02 on rationalist eating.