As per your request, CT wrote an article on dieting, today, just for you…
Diets don’t work, lifestyle changes work. My two bits.
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Finally pulled the trigger on a new trap bar, went with one of the nifty rackable ones. I only want like, 10 more things now.
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I find losing weight easier than gaining it, so take my comment as you will, but when I’ve been eating a lot and my appetite is up, and I switch to maintenance or a deficit, the biggest thing for me is “10 minutes”. If I only set out a smaller portion for myself, and I eat it, and I feel like I could eat a ton more, if I can just stand to wait 10 minutes for the food to settle, the craving goes away. Again - maybe that’s not something that works with other people, but I know for me, giving myself that little bit of time after I eat before deciding to eat more helps with portion control.
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I can confidently say that when I’m in a deficit there isn’t a minute of the day that I don’t crave food. You could probably say the same in maintainence or a surplus though.
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An apple is good against cravings. I often start my dinner with only salad, before the main course.
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Gawd no, still at a svelte 230. And I ate a whole pizza for lunch yesterday.
Def not portion control by any means.
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I confess I am in a conundrum.
I am an unashamed “ketchup on eggs” person. Let’s even call that confession 1. Bite me. Ketchup on eggs is amazing. I use sugar free/no sugar added ketchup, because of course I do, but the regular stuff is delicious too. Ketchup on eggs is one of life’s simple joys.
I am ANTI-ketchup on steak. Ketchup on steak is an abomination. If ketchup is on your steak, it means you messed up your steak.
Steak and eggs is my favorite meal. I eat it twice a day.
Often, I accomplish this by making a steak omelette…
WTF do I do?!
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Started working on this today. Probably ate half of what I normally would for breakfast. I usually eat really fast.
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For steak and eggs, the eggs should always be over easy/medium and dip your steak in the egg juice.
No ketchup needed. I am the same way with regards to ketchup and eggs/steak.
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See, this is a great way to make the steak more amazing…but much like you don’t dip your ketchup in fries, it leave the eggs unketchup’d!
Perhaps the solution is more eggs. Dedicated steak eggs and non-steak eggs.
This reminds me that I brought up the idea of the “Gaston challenge” to the Mrs, and she was more interested in the logistics behind it vs telling me it was a terrible idea…
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I confess that this thread title is giving me an aneurysm
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But if you don’t optimize the optimum how do you know if you are truly optimal? I want to be Optimus Prime - optimizing all my time optimally.
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I always like to tell these cats that worrying about being optimal will jack up their cortisol levels and cause muscular atrophy so I can watch the downward spiral that unfolds when they start worrying about worrying too much.
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I confess I do not understand the appeal of ketchup but dump mustard on everything
I’ve gone through 5 bottles since the start of the school year
Heinz of course @SkyzykS
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It’s sugar you put on meat. It’s how you get kids to eat meat.
Mine actually opts for applesauce on everything. One of their big ones is Mac n Cheese with applesauce. I can’t think of better bulking food.
??? This must be an American thing
It is 
AND a Chinese thing
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The original ketchup was basically fish sauce, and more common in SE Asian than China
Then heinz ruined it… but his mustard makes up for this sin.
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I agree in entirety with the food sense there, pertaining to the steak, eggs, and ketchup.
My solution:
Balsamic vinegar.
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The California yuppie scum in me says the answer MUST be avocado based…
Or perhaps we’ve come full circle to truffle oil again. I BET they make a truffle oil infused ketchup, which is amazingly high and low class. It would be like a caviar station at the Golden Corral.
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