Haha! Yes I’m sure there is. But the crimes against nutrition thread is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Lol. Plus sometimes I get some ideas on something new to try. I’m currently stuck in a serious food rut and need to change things up.
OK… I just imagined lazy afternoons filled with heart strengthening laughter. Maybe some finger pointing!
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Well there is that too. 
But it’s good hearted laughter.
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Yeah I’ve had to do the same. I wish I could ban the PWI threads from my feed
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2/21/26
5/3/1 The Triumvirate Cycle 5 Week 1
Training max 160 lb.
Ball throws 20
Squat
Warm up sets
*Working sets
104 lb. 65% x 5
120 lb. 75% x 5
136 lb. 85% x 6
Step ups
15 lb. 5 x 15
*Leg curls
35 lb. 1 x 10
40 lb. 4 x 10
Floor leg lifts
5 x 10
Not a terrible day for squats. I feel like I might actually be making some progress and getting ever so slightly stronger.
I’ve been overthinking my diet. I need to get back to simple. I also need to stay the hell out of the raisins and granola. The last few days have been rough. I think maybe morning fasting is not great for me. I like lifting fasted, but I think I will go back to breakfast in the morning. I’m not sure if it is just in my head, but I feel like I am ravenous in the evenings and it’s not helping my snacking.
Today is a good day. 
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This is me! I know it, too, and yet…
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2/22/26
5/3/1 The Triumvirate Cycle 5 Week 2
Training max 70 lb.
Ball throws 20
Overhead Press
Warm up sets
Working sets
49 lbs. 70% x 3
56 lbs. 80% x 3
63 lbs. 90% x 5 (PR)
Seated Overhead DB Press
15 lb. 5 x 15
Inverted Rows
5 x 10
Side Bends
25 lb. 5 x 10
Very good session. I feel like my shoulders are showing visible progress. This makes me happy because
A: I’m getting stronger.
B: I’m gonna look pretty killer in a tank top.
I managed to screw around long enough after my workout that my husband got home from his run and is making breakfast potatoes. Those with some dippy eggs is just about as close to heaven as I will ever get.
Happy Sunday everyone.
Today is a good day.
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I left entirely because it was becoming a detriment to my life. There was a time that my log and another fella who left the forum were amongst the top threads on the entire site. I imagine @T3hPwnisher would fall into that category, as well. I’m not saying my content or contribution was good. There was just a lot of it.
It happens. I’m in the same boat. If you have a weight/physique goal in mind then just remind yourself how you feel following a good day that leads towards progress. I’m trying to use that to stay strong when I want to eat an hour after eating 1200 calories.
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I’m not trying to make excuses, but I think I might have done this to myself. I think I’ve been making food that is oversaturated with flavor. My lunches for the past few weeks have been meat with taco seasoning packets for flavor. I didn’t pay much attention to it, but one serving of the meat has almost 100% of my sodium intake for the day. I rarely pay attention to sodium in my diet because my BP is so low I nearly qualify as dead, but after a small search I have found that high levels of sodium can increase your appetite. (Not sure how I didn’t connect these dots since I know that’s how the snack foods get you). So I think I have basically been salting myself into an increased appetite. So I’m going to try to go with making my own seasoning rather than packets so I can back down on the flavor overload. I think this will probably help. I’m sure you are super interested in my sodium theory, so I will keep you informed of my progress. 
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I’m always interested in nutrition theories. Bro science isn’t always wrong in the gym, so why can’t our nutritional conspiracy theories have some merit, too?
I’m about to finish my masters in Education for the pay increase. I can continue to move over on our pay chart by adding more hours. We have a MA + 10, MA + 20 and more. I’ve heard you don’t actually have to get a doctorate to move over and people just keep taking college courses. I find myself thinking about taking nutrition courses to see if I can learn more about it. I know quite a bit about the basics, but I’d be interested to see if any courses go deeper into the things like your sodium idea and stomach microbiomes. It would be nice to take a course I was actually interested in for a change.
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I’ve always wanted to take classes for the same reason. I used to think I would like to go into a profession where I could help people live healthier lives but I’ve lost all optimism for that. I think it would just be depressing to try to help people and have them put zero effort into it. So any classes I would take would be purely for my own personal use. I can’t justify the time or money just for that so I’ll just continue to read lots of books. Lol.
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Those season packets and process sauces will get us.
Easy to think we are eating right things but miss those details at times.
That’s why I add over easy egg to my ground beef.
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Kind of like teaching or being a personal trainer!
I understand why others fail to make changes, but I also don’t. This has been my toughest go at losing weight so I think I’m finally experiencing what others go through. We need concrete motivation. I know that dropping a few pounds will make me look a little better when I’m shirtless at the lake and I think it will help my joints live a little longer before I go shopping for replacements, but I really don’t need to lose weight. By the usual American standard of comparing oneself to everyone else, I still look better than most people who are shirtless at the lake. And up until recently, I haven’t been running or jumping so my joints haven’t really had to deal with much stress. I want to lose a little more weight, but I don’t need to do it. It also doesn’t help that my wife tells me I look fine all the time (but isn’t that her job even if it’s not true?). I have every excuse in the world to not make any changes, and I think that’s why I put it off so long. I’ve been needing to lose 10 pounds for over a year and now I’m on the path to losing 20 because I didn’t suck it up when it was just 10.
I can see how people might want to make a change, but it’s so hard to break their cycle of habits that they just stay where they are. But I bet if you told them they had two months to lose 15 pounds or die, they’d probably find the motivation.
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This is a big bugaboo of mine, so if you’ll allow be to bloviate…
Seasoning food bypasses natural satiety signals and is disruptive to our natural hunger/satiety pathways. Our brains are old while our environment is young, and our brains can’t cope with the new environment. Our brain knows how to process meat, in season fruit, tubers, etc. It can even process the plants used to make seasonings in their unadulted state. But when we employ seasonings on food, we artificially enhance the palatability of it, and our lizard brain goes “Holy sh*t, whatever this stuff is, it’s VALUABLE and we need to eat ALL of it right now because we may NEVER get to eat this again”
And that’s what we need to understand: seasoning is TRICKING us to eat MORE food. It’s the kind of trick you’d employ on a growing child or a medically underweight individual to get them to eat MORE than they are inclined to. But for those of us trying to navigate this current food environment: it’s working against us.
Now, if you are actually TRULY hungry, if you sit down to a meal of unseasoned chicken, eggs, in season fruit, etc, it will be the most DELICIOUS food you’ve ever had. For the first several bites. And then, after a while: it will stop being that way. And then, you’ll look down at your plate, and there will still be food there, and you’ll say “I don’t want to eat any more of this”. And that’s satiety. And then you just wait until that hunger hits again and you repeat the process.
For me, at least, it’s what has made it very easy to not need to count/measure/track. Once I throw seasoning into the equation, things get murky.
I WILL note that salt is the exception, simply because it’s a mineral, rather than a plant, and it’s a mineral we actually NEED for survival.
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Yeah. I do well and then start doing what is easier and tastier. Then I end up where I am now. Trying to get back to simple and healthy.
I can say that I’ve been here more than once and it is extremely difficult to get moving in the right direction sometimes. It’s super easy to backslide (as I am a tiny bit currently.)
Sadly, I don’t agree here. I’ve actually seen people be told that if they don’t lose weight they will be dead in a year. They are dead now. I’ve watched women be told if they don’t control their diabetes they could kill their babies. I’ll let you figure out where those stories go. I don’t know what the answer is, but I know it’s hard to watch and I have no optimism to keep me hoping for people. I think you either want to be better or you don’t. Not perfect, but better.
I know you are right here, and maybe someday I will get to a point where I can eat unseasoned food, but I’m not there yet and there is a 0% chance that I would succeed if I tried to just go cold turkey on that. But the general concept is where my thinking is. Back down on the seasoning and readjust my palate. Then maybe I can get to a healthier place with food.
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that I would succeed if I tried to just go cold turkey on that.
I absolutely love the pun here.
But you are approaching what I refer to as “the raw potato test”. When we’re hungry enough, we’ll eat a raw potato. If we’re not willing to do so, maybe we’re actually not all that hungry.
I think it was Thibs who had a discussion on the difference between hunger and appetite. Appetite is when you go “I’m hungry”, and then open the fridge, stare at it and say “Hmm…nothing really looks good” and walk away. You’re in the MOOD for something. Hunger is when we go “I’m hungry”, open the fridge and start drinking the ketchup from the bottle. We just want FOOD. In the case of appetite, it can often be a situation where nutrient deficiencies give us cravings, but it can also be about food satisfying non-food roles, like alleviating boredom, giving us a dopamine hit, etc.
And again: navigating our current food environment is just a minefield. We can get our gut microbiomes so fouled up from processed foods that even if we TRY to eat right, our body will refuse. Dave Tate talked about doing exactly that: going cold turkey from little debbies to chicken breasts, and he would actually throw up after every meal! His body was so finely tuned to live off of hyperprocessed junk that it would REJECT actual real food. Just wild.
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Completely unintentional, but I’m glad you enjoyed it. 
I definitely know that frequently I’m simply in the mood. I’m working on it. One day at a time…
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I always talk about dogs with this, because they’re awesome and we don’t deserve them.
When you have a dog and you feed it kibble, it’s the same kibble every day. And every day, that dog is SO excited to have that kibble. It’s probably the highlight of that dog’s day. They don’t ever look at the bowl and “kibble AGAIN?! We had that last night!” and go get door dash. In fact, last night, due to a miscommunication, I fed the dogs at 1700 and then my kid, after we had dinner, fed the dogs AGAIN at 1800, and our little pug pup ate his entire bowl before we had time to realize our mistake. He was SUPER excited for our mistake.
We need to be like dogs. When the food hits the plate, it should just delight us, even if it’s the same thing we’ve had all week. That sort of food gratitude goes so far.
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