{"id":44180,"date":"2016-10-25T21:48:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T01:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44180"},"modified":"2020-07-27T21:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T01:48:51","slug":"so-im-kind-of-dieting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44180","title":{"rendered":"So I\u2019m kind of dieting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking through some pictures over the last year or so, I\u2019m feeling an increasing resentment at how I\u2019m looking in them.\u00a0 Simply put, I feel like I\u2019m looking a little more rotund than I\u2019m typically comfortable with; and I can\u2019t help but wonder if this is age catching up with me, or if I\u2019ve just been letting myself let my guard down with general eating rules, or perhaps it\u2019s a combination of both.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not working out any less than I used to, and I still do a variety of weight training and cardio, and as long as I go to work, I\u2019m also going to the gym, typically five days a week.\u00a0 I\u2019ve probably just gotten too lax with food, choosing poorly when it comes to what I\u2019m eating, and probably eating a little too much of it, because food is awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m also 34 and not 24, when I shed a lot of weight, with a pretty strict diet, so I guess I should probably start watching what I\u2019m eating again, and hope that some of the unsightly flesh on my body goes away in a few months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dieting isn\u2019t really that hard to me, since it\u2019s basically just conditioning, but getting to that point where eating choices and habits become normalized that\u2019s somewhat aggravating to the point where it\u2019s brog-worthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been eating pretty clean for a little bit now, and more importantly, I\u2019m eating less, and I\u2019ve been stopping eating when I am legitimately full, and not when the plate is empty.\u00a0 But I\u2019m finding myself still often hungry, and it sucks when I wake up in the morning with my stomach really jonesing for some breakfast, or when I go to the gym already hungry, and expect to have a productive workout.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one thing that I\u2019m doing differently now is that I\u2019m experimenting with steam cooking.\u00a0 Fried food is delicious, but even the healthiest vegetables lose most of their healthy status when fried in a pan.\u00a0 Baking food is a healthier alterative, but there\u2019s no denying that oven-cooking is time consuming and requires a lot of prep and pre-heating before anything can actually be cooked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But steam cooking?\u00a0 It\u2019s about as easy as can be, especially with a microwave steamer.\u00a0 A half cup of water, five minutes give or take, and anything from chicken, fish to vegetables comes out soft, tender, fully cooked, and without a single drop of oil.\u00a0 Sure, the food is almost always entirely on the bland side of the spectrum, but it\u2019s nothing that a few light pinches of salt, or other seasoning can\u2019t rectify.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve made a couple of meals with the steamer, and I have to say it\u2019s been a delight, simply salt and peppering a chunk of salmon, throwing it in the microwave for five minutes, where it comes out moist and fully cooked, before throwing in the second steamer full of greens, which also comes out soft and tender, and I have a full plate of steam-cooked goodness, that fills my stomach without being nearly as guilt-inducing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly, exercise alone at this point in my life isn\u2019t going to cut it, so I\u2019m hoping that changing my diet to some more sensible choices revolving around steam cooking will be beneficial to my renewed sense of not wanting to look like such a fat hideous fuck anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking through some pictures over the last year or so, I\u2019m feeling an increasing resentment at how I\u2019m looking in them.\u00a0 Simply put, I feel like I\u2019m looking a little more rotund than I\u2019m typically comfortable with; and I can\u2019t help but wonder if this is age catching up with me, or if I\u2019ve just … Continue reading So I\u2019m kind of dieting<\/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":[120,56,109,133],"class_list":["post-44180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fat-people","tag-food","tag-gym","tag-old-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44180","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=44180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44182,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44180\/revisions\/44182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}