• Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    No one food is “healthy” or “unhealthy”, it always depends on how much of it and what else you eat.

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      4 months ago

      True. But fat is one of the foods it’s hard to eat too much of.

      Try to sit down to a big bowl of butter. It’s just hard to eat by itself. In fact it’s one of the tricks used in the keto community to determine a addictive craving versus actual hunger. If you’re willing to eat butter by itself, you’re hungry, if you’re not willing to eat the butter but you still have a craving that’s addiction

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            Yeah, I’m pretty sure I could. I never did that because I have enough reason and willpower. But eating a bit of butter by itself as a “snack” is something I do sometimes and I’m sure I could eat a lot more if I didn’t control myself.

            • LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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              I could eat slabs of it. It’s delicious, I like shortbread cos it’s just butter mixed with sugar and butter is good. I especially like cheese smothered in butter

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              I’m fascinated. You are the first person I’ve meet who has said this.

              How is your nutrition overall? Are you eating well, any problems/deficiencies? are you underweight?

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                I get quite a lot of cravings and eating random stuff (like mentioned butter) between the meals is quite common for me. But on the other hand I really like physical activity and I’m pretty good at keeping a rolling estimate of my calories and macros. I use that to compensate for weird stuff I’ve eaten during cravings. I will adjust my next meal (or all the meals next day) to be lighter, I will go for additional 10km walk or run, stuff like that. In the end I’m able to keep my calorie balance in slight surplus which works out quite well since I’m strength training too. Occasional cut resets the situation when my weight gets too high. As for macros, I’m eating a lot of protein, and trying to keep carbs relatively low, although usually it’s probably not really in the proper “low carb” territory. I also eat vegetables and fruits regularly. I think I’m keeping pretty much perfect weight. BMI is kinda high but that’s due to muscle mass.

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                    For me the reason is that I just feel better eating less carbs. I feel less energy swings, I don’t get sleepy after the meal. But eating actually low carb (say <50 g daily) is just very inconvenient to me as I really don’t like cooking and meticulous meal planning. Well, and carbs are often fucking delicious. So in the end I eat pretty normal but I do avoid carbs whenever it doesn’t require too much effort.