{"id":37918,"date":"2013-11-13T23:48:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T03:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37918"},"modified":"2020-07-08T23:49:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T03:49:02","slug":"the-inadvertent-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37918","title":{"rendered":"The inadvertent diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">By now, anyone reading this is pretty well aware that I go to the gym on a regular basis.\u00a0 But obviously, the gym alone is never enough when it comes to physical improvement, otherwise I would probably have a physique that was resembling more to Ricky Martin instead of Ricky Gervais.\u00a0 This is the case because in spite of how much I work out, I\u2019m fairly lax when it comes to eating, because food is awesome and I love food.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying I will dine at solely all-you-can-eat buffets (anymore), but I have a fond affinity for burritos, barbecue and beer, and I have no intention of giving them up anytime soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I exercise so that I can eat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">However, I\u2019m not going to say that I couldn\u2019t stand to improve physically, because:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I am a single guy, and single guys that are in better shape tend to have more success in romantic pursuits than guys that are fat miserable slobs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Physical improvement can only lead to a higher quality standard of living<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Yes, I prioritized the pursuit of women over improved physical well-being, because that\u2019s kind of where I\u2019m at with my life, currently<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">That being said, because I\u2019m also a supportive friend and roommate, I decided to embark on a mission to try and eat better with Jen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">So for the past two weeks or so, we\u2019ve been pretty good about our eating habits, not having any junk food in the house (save for leftover Halloween candy), dining at home, and trying a variety of health-conscious, pretty low-calorie dinners.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t really been that cost-efficient so far, because apparently we\u2019ve had to buy all sorts of consumable cooking additives, but it\u2019s nice to know we have them for future use, and all sorts of healthier perishables that aren\u2019t often in our refrigerator on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And to be honest, things haven\u2019t been that bad.\u00a0 I\u2019m winging it mostly, as opposed to Jen, but in the back of my mind, I know I\u2019m consuming less than 700-800 calories per these dinners, and I\u2019m not necessarily sure if those numbers are good or bad, per say, but I know that any one of my treadmill or stationery bicycle sessions is good for 500-600 calories burned, so I\u2019m under the belief that I\u2019m at a fairly positive place eating the way I\u2019ve been eating since starting this healthier kick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Furthermore, the tastes of the things we\u2019ve been eating have been pretty good too.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying we\u2019re McAmericans used to eating nothing but pig slop and utter garbage food, but we\u2019re eating things we definitely don\u2019t eat on a fairly regular basis.\u00a0 We\u2019re cooking a lot more, which is something we often avoided because sometimes we just felt lazy and didn\u2019t feel like doing any cooking.\u00a0 But the more we\u2019ve done it, the less pain in the ass it\u2019s been, measuring spices and oils and other liquids, chopping and portioning perishable goods, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Dare I say, it\u2019s actually been a little bit of fun trying new things out, both in the process of cooking as well as eating newer and healthier foods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The interesting thing about all of this is that I feel that I\u2019m making a few slivers of physical improvement lately.\u00a0 I can\u2019t give any cold, concrete hard facts to confirm this, but a few of my work slacks have been feeling a bit more relaxed around the waist as of late.\u00a0 I wear a 34\u201d waist on all of my pants, and it\u2019s no secret that not all pants are created equally, but because I\u2019m stubborn and refuse to accept that I\u2019d wear anything larger (again), all of my pants are 34s.\u00a0 But some of them have always been low-maintenance and not problematic, but I wouldn\u2019t be truthful if I said that there weren\u2019t one or two pairs that were a little bit more snug than I\u2019d like to admit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">However, the problem child pants lately have felt more relaxed around the waist and not nearly as tight as they once felt.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s in my head, or maybe I am genuinely gaining some improvement, but lately they haven\u2019t been so bad.\u00a0 gg inadvertent diet?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The funny thing even more lately is how this supposed progress has begun to affect me mentally.\u00a0 The other day, I had some errands to do that took me far away from the litany of decent restaurants and places to eat within the city of Atlanta.\u00a0 Needless to say, once outside of the city proper, and are closer to where I live, the options dwindle dramatically.\u00a0 In fact, I would dare say that there\u2019s pretty much nowhere good to eat, remotely anywhere near my house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">However, it was getting late, I hadn\u2019t eaten since eight hours prior, and I knew that I would have to eat something.\u00a0 I deliberated in my head what my options were to stop and pick something up, and absolutely nothing sounded particularly good.\u00a0 Now maybe I\u2019m exaggerating a little bit by saying there\u2019s \u201cnothing\u201d good to eat around me, because there exists plenty of guilty pleasure kinds of things to eat, like Taco Bells, Chic-Fil-As and a Little Caesar\u2019s.\u00a0 I love those shitty foods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But in my head, I felt that I\u2019d been on such a good streak of eating healthier things over the last two weeks, that I didn\u2019t necessarily want to ruin it with eating shitty foods.\u00a0 I wrestled with the conflict in my head, since there wasn\u2019t anything necessarily dinner-ish available at the house, and that I\u2019m not necessarily officially formally dieting in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I went straight home, and ate nothing but a bowl of cereal instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">wtf indeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Earlier today, my friend asked if I wanted anything while he made a QT run.\u00a0 QT, where they have taquitos, beef sticks, chicken sticks, and other stick-shaped foods slowly cooked on rollers for 50 miles worth of revolutions.\u00a0 Where they have Doritos, Takis and 20 different bagged road trip snack caliber snacks.\u00a0 Where they have great donuts and all sorts of candy bars available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And I said no, I\u2019m good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">wtf indeed x 2.\u00a0 This inadvertent dieting thing is really messing with me, now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, anyone reading this is pretty well aware that I go to the gym on a regular basis.\u00a0 But obviously, the gym alone is never enough when it comes to physical improvement, otherwise I would probably have a physique that was resembling more to Ricky Martin instead of Ricky Gervais.\u00a0 This is the case &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37918\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The inadvertent diet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,56,15,49],"class_list":["post-37918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fat-people","tag-food","tag-og","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37919,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37918\/revisions\/37919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}