My Twitter feed is flooded with wars between hardcore carnivores (eat meat only, no veggies!) and vegans.
Mostly the hardcore carnivores attacking vegans like Russia doing Ukraine for minding their own business but committing the crime of being vegans.
People really like absolutist type diets. There’s a powerful psychological impact from feeling like you’re in control, and absolutist approaches where you ALWAYS eat this and NEVER eat that have an intrinsic emotional appeal that is hard to combat. Throw some tribalism in there and you’re gonna want to check out of those conversations.
Theres certainly some of this. But I think it’s a mistake to both sides this conversation. Theres certain type of (predominantly) men who like to bully and pick on vegans.
Most of the time vegans are like “hey. Let’s just eat somewhere where I can actually eat food, but otherwise you do you”
Sure, that’s true. I am speaking to the broader impulse to establish “control” through diet. This pops up in everything from eating disorders to wellness quackery.
Yeah. Agreed. Simple is easy.
Week 9. Weight down. 123kg. Lowest weight on average again.
Been active and eating lots of salad and veg. I clearly need to do both to move the needle.
In other food news. I’ve finally fit back into my work shirts.
Pretty much everything is a 17" collar. I’ve been just too big for them for a while. Now I’m just marginally fitting in them.
Today was my first hard workout after recovering from COVID. It was supposed to be one mile warmup followed by 6 miles at half marathon pace. I ended up running the last 6 miles at an average pace 15 seconds faster than my goal pace, so I need to do a little better at pacing.
I’ve definitely noticed running being harder since getting sick. My watch initially dropped my VO2 max score by 2, and it’s since gone back up by 1. My watch gave me “overreaching” as the training effect of this workout, which means it was harder than it should be. Based on what other runners have posted, it seems like it can take a few weeks for running to get back to normal after a mild COVID case.
Ya the diet absolutism is annoying. Different people will react differently to different foods.
If you avoid processed foods, refined sugars, and seed oils you should be okay.
You really can’t go wrong if your diet is just meat/seafood/poultry + veggies + fruit.
Only things I miss are pasta, pizza, and ice cream. I’ve found some work around to curve the pizza and icecream cravings, but nothing is really a good sub for pasta.
what’s wrong with seed oils? hadn’t heard that one before
edit: a quick google search has me pretty skeptical, but whatever
I assume it’s just a general knock against omega 6 / PUFAs and not specifically just seed oils. If that’s not the case then, yeah, I’d love to hear it.
a good starter for looking into seed oils - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmqVVmMB3k
just stick to avocado oil, ghee/grass fed butter, olive oil, beef tallow
since cutting them out ive personally had a lot of inflammation issues disappear, granted ive made other life style changes as well.
On top of this you constantly see seed oils put in products that don’t really make sense for having them. Like why the fuck is soybean oil the first ingredient in a coffee creamer (coffee mate in this example)?
cutting out seed oils kinda goes hand in hand with just eating whole foods that dont have a bunch of unnecessary additives in them.
Can you just tell us it what it says? I’m not watching a 30 minute yootoobz.
What doesn’t “make sense” about it? It seems weird to me to assume that just because it’s an additive that it somehow has to be bad. That’s a terrible fallacy.
i mean just for starters rise in seed oils correlates highly with the rise in diabetes and obesity.
its a worthwhile informational video, fucking just watch it.
sTuDiEs ShOw
nah
Google says first ingredient is water, then coconut oil.
Nutritional science like this nearly always turns out to be bullshit. I’m not watching your 30 min YouTube either
Twitter is full of accounts dedicated to the insistence that seed oils are the #1 threat to humanity.
Always reminds me of this:
A guy I work with ran Boston today - 2:58. I’m almost certainly not ever going to achieve that, but I very much hope to qualify for Boston someday.
Current qualifying times***:
45-49: 3 hours 20 minutes
50-54: 3 hours 25 minutes
55-59: 3 hours 35 minutes
***These are the official qualifying times, but in most years they get so many qualifying runners that they further lower these times to hit their desired population (usually 30,000). In 2019, that extra cut was 4:52, and there were more than 7,000 applicants who thought they had qualified under the offical thresholds, but didn’t get to race. It must have been crushing.
That’s Paul Ryan elite time