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CONTROVERSIAL PERHAPS

As my cousin Ronnie would jokingly say at family reunions, I’m on the seafood diet—I see food, I eat it!! I have historically had a problem with overeating snacks and if I buy chips it’s really easy for me to eat them all in one sitting. I embrace an ingredients household mindset and try to only buy whole foods based snacks like cheese, nuts, etc that are so boring and wholesome they’re kind of hard to eat too much of them. Demonic food scientists and executives at corporate conglomerate food manufacturers, many of whom worked at cigarette companies in the past, have engineered hyper processed foods to be optimally addictive. I replace the chips I used to be addicted to with alternative snacks that use better ingredients and typically come in much smaller bags—I have yet to find my methadone for my drug of choice, HOT CHEETOS because I’m OPPRESSED and the bougie snack industry evidently doesn’t care about MY NEEDS—and I portion them out into bowls when I eat them then put the bag away. If you have some kind of an Uber Eats/Doordash problem then delete those apps because it’s too easy to just summon whatever you want whenever you want, on a whim. Make it so if you want to get food you have to go out and work for it. Add friction to counterbalance your impulsive nature! And when you eat, eat mindfully and slowly. Also if you’re regularly craving certain foods I hear that it can have something to do with nutritional imbalance so be mindful of that…

@taterhole

5d ago

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EATING THE SAME THING EVERY DAY

For the past few weeks... months? I've been having Two fried eggs in corn tortillas with chipotle hot sauce Korean bbq style pork and rice A spinach and fruit smoothie with protein powder and collagen Rice Krispie treats or a handle full of chocolate chips. I'll double up, I'll mix the order around, and I'll have chocolate chips for breakfast. But it's mostly these same foods over and over. I always found repetitive eating a little weird but here I am. One part of me knows I am a little depressed, but the other part loves to have at least one familiar and totally brain-free part of my life.

@videotapezzzz

Jan 26, 2024

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Walt’s cold Cut diet

Here is a New diet that i Invented for gains. Basically, every time You go in the Kitchen you have to eat 2 cold Cuts. it doesn’t matter why you Are in the kitchen. you Go in the kitchen to drink Some water? Two cold Cuts. You pass through the Kitchen to go to the Bathroom? Two Cold cuts. You walk in the Kitchen by accident? Two Cold cuts. This is How you get Nice and Strong.

@walter-pearce

Oct 14, 2021

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Nonograms

Invented by Japanese graphics editor Non Ishida in 1987, Nonograms are addictively elegant visual logic puzzles and IMO the perfect bedtime wind-down activity. They’re kind of like a cross between Sudoku and a paint-by-number. I do them every night on my Nintendo Switch via a game called “Pic-a-Pix Deluxe,” but nonograms.org is also a good entry point. Start small and work your way up— you can even print them out or hand-copy them onto grid paper if you want to go really trad.

@4l3x1

Mar 27, 2023

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Dimensional

A very special app, kind of like Co-Star but with personality tests instead of astrology. The last personality test you’ll ever have to take! I’m very much a skeptic and usually highly resistant to downloading new apps, but Dimensional’s stylish approach to psychometrics is deeply satisfying, and I’m always stimulated by their insights. Using this has actually improved my understanding of myself and others— it’s more fun with friends!

@4l3x1

Mar 27, 2023

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Home Economics Exams

The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger is a fantastic book which makes a compelling argument for the revival of home economics (or “family and consumer sciences” as it was later called in a flop rebranding attempt). I now feel very passionate about improving home life through art and science, and thus improving society. I had a lot of fun taking these archived home economics high school exams from the 1950s and 60s, which really give you a sense of how the field encompassed so many areas of expertise: fashion and interior design, medicine, child psychology, chemistry, etiquette, and more. From identifying period furniture styles to caring for a bedridden person, the test questions are a good measure for general well-roundedness and can be an entertaining group activity for a dinner party or pregame.

@4l3x1

Mar 27, 2023