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In today's world, with food available so easily, I find it admirable of people who can eat with modesty. If you think about it, humans were not always able to s
by dragosmocrii 6y ago
In today's world, with food available so easily, I find it admirable of people who can eat with modesty. If you think about it, humans were not always able to sleep with a full belly, sometimes they had to starve a little while trying to find food. And I think it's acceptable to those who do a lot of intensive physical work to eat more. But for someone like me, who spends most of the time sitting on a chair, doing the extraneous work of typing and clicking, less caloric food is probably fine. However, I think that quality food that's beneficial for the brain is essential for intellectual workers like me, but not sugary foods - that's energetic cheating
- achow 6y agoTrue. Was in Google for a brief while; the pull of free and great food wore off very quickly when I had a realization that I actually should be eating 30-40% of what I consume any given day. And to rustle up something for that 15-20% is no big deal (rest 15-20% one can easily figure out from healthy/ok restaurants without it making any noticeable dent in your pocket or health).
- ganafagol 6y agoOr bike to work. Or go for a run, a swim, play soccer or volleyball with some friends, or pick up any other hobby that's more physical than sitting at a desk.
- inglor_cz 6y agoOutrunning bad diet is, well, not impossible, but pretty hard. I would say that the sweet spot is to be physically active and at the same time careful about eating.
- JimBlackwood 6y agoRestricting eating is just very hard. It’s very hard to not eat when you’re hungry. I would say, be physically active and have a diet filled with foods that have high fiber, high protein and have a low calorie density. I have a very active lifestyle and used to count my calories everyday and had to restrict the amount I ate. Since a few years ago I’ve been switching my foods to high fiber or low fat versions and increasing the amount of vegetables in my meals. It’s honestly been such a positive change. I end up full every meal, don’t snack, I don’t have to cut anything out of my diet and I don’t remember the last time I had to count my calories.
- inglor_cz 6y agoIn my experience, intermittent fasting works much better in this regard than generic caloric restriction with smaller portions but same amount of meals per day. Feelings of hunger tend to go away after a few days.
- JimBlackwood 6y agoI’m not talking about caloric restriction or smaller portion though. If anything bigger portions. Just food with less calories per gram, more fiber and more protein. All 3 make a given portion of a certain amount of calories way more satiating. Keeping you more full, for longer and harder to overeat.
- Shorel 6y agoIn my experience, it is easy to eat just the necessary as long as you restrict carbohydrates. Low fat is high sugar, which completely makes me feel like crap. I prefer pork belly.
- beagle3 6y agoIt’s a lot more complicated than “modesty”. My n=1 experience is that once I started making sure I’m not missing anything important (which I did by supplementing iron, K2, magnesium, zinc, and a catch-all multivitamin), the impulse to eat/munch something outside of meals virtually disappeared, where it was often there before (whether I acted on it or not). It’s possible that the problem with today’s food is not that it is plentiful, but rather that it is so unbalanced in nutrition content that we keep unconsciously searching for the missing stuff.
- disown 6y ago> I find it admirable of people who can eat with modesty. You mean eat in moderation? Though I guess it's also admirable to eat with modesty.
- dragosmocrii 6y agohaha, yes you are right, I meant to say "with moderation"
- Shorel 6y agoA requirement to eating with modesty is to lift your pinkie.