Cutting sucks

You know there's no calories in normal seasoning?

Tasty food gives dopamine. Dopamine gives you motivation to do stuff.

You're just unnecessarily doing it on hard mode without at least some pepper

Edit: also halve the rice and triple the broccoli

It's like 5 calories of broccoli with all those nutrients, but like 350 of basically empty carbs.
- Carbs are required for muscle building.
- Yeah, when I'm cutting I'll do a fuck load of seitan, cut out the rice and have 300g of broccoli, with a flavoured with a ton of spices. Genuinely tasty and something I enjoy, cutting doesn't need to be punishment.
- More like 40 but same difference
Tasty food just makes you want to eat more.
- Not if you fill up with tasty fibre rich food
halve the rice and triple the broccoli
Everyone has different nutritional needs. If you're doing chicken broccoli rice, it's probably because it's much easier to measure out an exact amount of macronutrients to fit your needs and fill up the rest on broccoli to make it as satiating as needed.
- What does that have to do with seasoning?

This picture oozes such self-loathing it's concerning.

When you're a fatty, loathing is at an all time high. I was never fat, but I've lost 20 lbs since February eating pretty similar to this
- If you were never fat, why are you trying to lose 20+ pounds?
- U R whatcha 8

When I was in Chicago went to my Mexican friend's house for home cooked Mexican! Yeah. Looked like that.

Wife: "Ed's guts can't take spicy."

Shoot me.

Ed needs to suck it up for the sake of all that is Mexican.
- Seriously. And you will very quickly get used to it. Like you wouldn't believe what happened to me when I started making red lentil dal on the regular, but after a while, my bowel movements went back to regular and no more "ring of fire."
- Also username
The dual-use of the English “spice” (ground minerals used to improve flavor) and “spice” (substances that cause food to taste hot and intense) leads to many unfortunate losses of potential flavor.

Gymbro bodysculpt enthusiasts are wild. They won't have tasty meals because they don't want food to be associated with pleasure, only fuel.

Maybe it works, maybe its a clever brain hack, but I suspect its from the same pseuds that brought us nofap

Theres a gym bro at my work who eats the same meals everyday. Its something like plain oatmeal, protein shake, boiled chicken, greek yogurt. Every day, no seasoning, all plain and boring. He was complaining to me that he has to almost force himself to eat sometimes and im just thinking like "yeah no shit, you eat wall paste every meal".
- I mean i meal prep my lunches, been over 10 years, updated it once recently. Rice, refried black beans, corn, sweet onion, green pepper. Everyday for lunch. I think it's tasty and being able to eat the same thing everyday for years is what makes me a great partner lol
Meh. Everything in moderation. Including self-imposed suffering. Sleep late. Eat tasty food. Have days where you just exist. Fuel is for cars.
- vroom vroom
It does make those cheat days 100x more special though.
- Sounds like self-inflicted stockholm syndrome, tbh.

Dude, that plate is upside down! The vegetables! So much carbs!

Cutting what? Money? Flavor? Health? Or happiness?

I can't get over the broccoli portion!! I eat 20 times that!
- Once during the early pandemic, I inadvertently received 12 pounds of frozen broccoli from a grocery delivery (~5,5 kilos). I have never been too full for a piece of broccoli, and didn’t have the space in my freezer for all of it, so I decided to make a huge amount and see how much I could actually eat.
  I made 6 pounds (roasted with spices and a little olive oil) and ate it all without issue. I honestly could have eaten more, but I was a little worried about causing myself digestive issues. I didn't have any, even though doing the math, I was over 4% broccoli afterwards.
I'm cutting as well, and this plate is scarily similar to where I've landed for my meal prep. Pretty much chicken and rice, but I at least do a rub or marinade.
- I mean, boiled breast? Eeewww! There are so many other better ways of making it!
Yeah it's insane honestly. My own meals are probably like 70% vegetable or something. A lot of people already eat very few vegetables in my opinion, but OP really goes beyond that in this case. Bland, tasteless, and not even healthy

Are you taking this picture from your bunker?

This is the most depressing lighting I've ever seen.

Seriously, it looks like your taking this picture from The Backrooms.

my brother in Christ, the blitz is over, the bombs have stopped - you no longer have to eat like this
- Hail Satan.
On a cut like this you dont want to actually see your food.
Don't deserve flavour, don't deserve light.

Most prisons serve better meals than this

I will come to your residence and cook for you. I can make something tasty and healthy. Please don't do this to yourself, I'm having a hard time not driving off a cliff due to witnessing this. I would be upset, but I'm too sad and disturbed. At least, the very least, black pepper. I'm begging you.

Is this a general offer? Because that offer sounds kind of incredible.
- I mean, with the economy the way it is, there's some stipulations, but technically yes lol
Saaaaame. I will feed you good healthy food and it won't even be sxpensive. I'll show you how to make it. Fuck, i'll show you how to put a couple pots and a grow light in your kitchen so you always have some fucking electrolyte heavy veggies to snack on.
- Love it! I have some seeds, but I have yet to grow them. Some heirloom white habaneros and blackberries, etc.

The cut would be more successful with more broccoli and no rice, IMO. I’ve had decent success with eliminating all carbs and starches. But for god’s sake use some fucking spices

The Good old English-like.

Bro is fucking living in China during the famine, what the fuck

A whole chicken breast during a famine? That sounds luxurious. I was under the impression that animal protein was incredibly rare.
- Long pig comes into season eventually

Seriously do you need a hug? Or some cheffing? If you're near los angeles, i can just show up and mix some cheap-ass spices for you.

Ah, depression.

My depression is the opposite, cooking and baking fatty foods and eating it all
- That's the coping mechanism, effective or otherwise, not the depression.
Which came first, the eating disorder or the depression?
- I think depression? Like, whenever I have a depressive episode, I turn into a slop eating bastard, who goes 22hrs without eating and then overeats within minutes. And bland food as a form of self punishment is also a thing.

This shit is ridiculous. Being a person should not require such nonsense.

Billionaire can afford chicken breast for dinner and other cool stories.

Trying to make weight for something or trying to improve your life?

That meal isn’t improving anyone’s life.
- It makes me appreciate the food i eat

I thought that was mashed potatoes.

Bro doesn't shit for weeks at a time.

This is from people with the mindset of "food is fuel" and they're trying to take the pleasure out of eating.

I mean I get it. You're trying to eat healthy but you don't have to punish yourself over it. I can make a fantastic salad with air fryer well spiced chicken.

No?
They're not trying to take the pleasure out of eating, they're trying to get as massive as they possibly can. Which, yes, does take the pleasure out of eating. However, their mindset is almost certainly "I have eaten this exact meal 647 times in the past year, I must get bigger, I must get bigger, I must get bigger."
- Yes and no. You're correct about people skipping seasoning while bulking up. Which is what this looks like based on the protein bottle in the background.
  I've also spoken to someone in person and online that skip seasoning while just trying to eat healthier.

A fellow member of boiled, unsalted chicken club!

Don't forget the tabasco.

England buddy noooo

lil soy saus? no?

Take a second. You're cutting yourself, and your spices, but realize that if you haven't raped kids, you're literally, OBJECTIVELY better than the president of the United States of America.

I don't know if you care, but I think everyone having a hard time needs to hear this. We're all better than the people in charge of the wealthiest and most dangerous country in the entire world.

This is such a fucking dark time to be alive. It fucking sucks. But, if you're hurting, you're likely better than the worst people out there. Because they aren't hurting. As long as you can feel these things, you likely always will be better. Even if you do nothing but survive, you're better than these awful fucking monsters that are literally destroying this world for future generations.

Don't let you or anyone else convince you otherwise. This is for everyone reading this. We're all fucking better. Make yourself a nice fucking meal, you deserve it.