Junk food all at once, or spaced throughout the week?

[Fluidic Kimbo]

If you are trying to minimise bodyfat, which of these would be better?

Option 1: Eat 200 calories of junk food every day (i.e. 7 days per week)

Option 2: Eat 1400 calories of junk food once per week

At the moment I'm a lot closer to Option 2. From Monday to Thursday, I only eat 3 meals per day (granola for breakfast, can of tuna for lunch, chicken for dinner) and I run 8 km per day (with extra weight). But then when Friday arrives, I don't exercise, and I have a fry for breakfast (sausages, bacon rashers, bread, egg), I eat big bags of sweets, big chocolate bars, and a pizza.

I reckon my body fat reduces from Monday to Thursday. It might increase on Friday because I stuff my face indiscriminantly.

Do you think it's better to spread your junk food throughout the week, or to just gorge one day a week?

[SampsonandDelilah]

I would think it’s easier to consume it daily in smaller increments. You have less work to do to atone for that 200 calorie surplus per day then trying to get in “the red” after hammering down an extra 1400 calories in a sitting.

Based on a calories in/calories out approach

Hopefully that makes sense...

[sv.elia]

Food is put to better use when it’s consumed more often and in smaller quantities. Your body won’t be able to use 1200kcal all at once, some will definitely be stored as fat, but scattered throughout the week they might get burned, depending on your physical activities.

What the underlying problem is (sorry if I bulge, but I have a strong standing on this one because it happens to me as well), is that you seek refuge in a vice because reality sucks (for everyone at the moment). And it can be food, alcohol, cigarettes, doesn’t matter as long as they offer a moment’s rest from the anxiety and negative thoughts caused by what’s happening around.

I’d not beat myself for wanting to indulge. Just put things in balance and go with the decision. If going with it causes you long-time problems then I’d avoid it. If you think you can indulge and stop after one time, then why not? Only habit causes harm.

For example I can smoke a cigarette and think nothing of it the second day. This vice just doesn’t stick with me. I can have friends smoking in my face and I'm just meh about it. At most I'll take a puff so I don't forget how to blow circles, lol. However, drinking once disrupts my balance for a week or so. I take a beer one day, then try to go by without one the second. Later I end up buying a liquor bottle which is a three days commitment. And my week of working out is gone. It doesn't cause me much distress otherwise (doesn't affect relationships/productivity/capacity for anger-management) but it impairs recovery after working out and I'd rather have nothing grind my progress. So with alcohol a full abstinence approach suits me best. Might differ for someone else.

I’ll leave a script from the peaceful warrior story, it helped me understand and fight vice better:

“There is a saying when you sit, sit. When you stand, stand. What ever you do - don’t wobble. Once you make your choice do it with all your spirit. Don’t be like the evangelist that thought about praying while making love to his wife and making love to his wife while praying”

I Laughed at this image, while Socrates blew perfect smoke rings.

“It’s better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, making a choice based on that recognition, and then living with that choice without concern."

"It sounds so 'either-or'. What about moderation?"

"'Moderation?" He leaped up on the desk, like an evangelist. "Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's reasonable deception. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation - he took a deep breath, getting ready for his final condemnation - it is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew!"

Laughing, I said, "Your sermons come in like a lion and go out like a lamb, Soc. You'll have to keep practicing."

He shrugged his shoulders, climbing down from the desk. "They always told me that in the seminary." I didn't know whether he was kidding or not.

"Soc, I still think smoking is disgusting."

"Haven't I got the message across to you yet? Smoking is not disgusting; the habit is. I may smoke one cigarette a day, then not smoke again for six months; I may enjoy one cigarette a day, or one a week, without any unmanageable urges to have another. And when I do smoke, I don't pretend that my lungs won't pay a price; I follow appropriate action afterward to help counterbalance the negative effects."

"I just never imagined a warrior would smoke."

He blew smoke rings at my nose. "I never said that a warrior behaved in a way that you considered perfect, nor do all warriors act exactly as I do. But we all follow the House Rules, you see. So whether or not my behavior meets your new standards or not, it should be clear to you that I have mastered all compulsions, all behavior. I have no habits; my actions are conscious, intentional, and complete."

Socrates put out his cigarette, smiling at me.

"You've become too stuffy, with all your pride and superior discipline. It's time we did a little celebrating."

WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR Dan Millman

[Fluidic Kimbo]

My work is making me take 2 weeks of unpaid leave next month so I am considering going down to my nearby charity carpentry workshop to ask them if they will let me build my own one-person meditation hut (assuming lockdown is over by then).

I actually have one already out my back garden but I want to make a proper one with underfloor heating. See pic:

[Fluidic Kimbo]

You have less work to do to atone for that 200 calorie surplus per day then trying to get in “the red” after hammering down an extra 1400 calories in a sitting.

I was sort of hoping my body would just shit out the 1400 calories without digesting it all properly because I just ate too much at once.

Bulimia seems like a positive lifestyle choice, I could eat the pack of sweets, chocolate bar and a pizza and then puke it back up.

[Fluidic Kimbo]

I'm actually considering inventing my own new eating disorder, similar to bulimia. You put food in your mouth, you chew it and you enjoy the taste of it, but then you spit it out before swallowing it. What should I call my new eating disorder?

[Proximal]

I was sort of hoping my body would just shit out the 1400 calories without digesting it all properly because I just ate too much at once.

Bulimia seems like a positive lifestyle choice, I could eat the pack of sweets, chocolate bar and a pizza and then puke it back up.

It works for the models. However I question your food combinations? Pizza AND sweets?!?

[The road]

I can go to single-digit body fat drinking 6 cans of Redbull a day eating 500 G of carbs. The question is what do you do with your body in your day what is your mind doing. If you have time to think about it and ask dumb ass questions like this, then it really doesn't matter what you do you don't have what it takes.

I could burn 500 calories in 10 minutes thinking about how much I want to ass rape cameron.

[Fluidic Kimbo]

I could burn 500 calories in 10 minutes thinking about how much I want to ass rape cameron.

American sexuality and masculinity is definitely different to European.

I mean in Europe, if you're a male and you have a picture of yourself shirtless with flexed muscles, then you're already kind of tip-toeing into the realms of androphilia.

If you then follow it up with a statement expressing stamina and a desire to rectally penetrate, then you're really just lathering yourself in an alluring male-seeking grease.

Your only saving grace on this occassion is that 'Cameron' is a unisex name, and that my screen name is actually based on the female character from the movie 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post'.

Close call, Nathaniel. But thankfully you're not publicly exposed this time around and so you don't have to drown your kids in the bath, strangle your soon-to-be exgirlfriend, and then self-immolate.

Today I think I'm going out on the lake in my inflatable boat. My friend who I went with last time died back in January of an accidental overdose so it might be a little emotional. We have another lake nearby -- which was actually a quarry -- and the water is turquoise in colour like around the Hawaiian islands (or the south of Thailand). Someobody told me that the turquoise colour is actually from the limestone and that it's not safe to swim in. I will actually research that now.

[Fluidic Kimbo]

I'm trying to find litmus paper in order to test the pH level of the water in the quarry. To be honest though. . . If I wear goggles and if I spend less than an hour in the water then it doesn't really matter. Worst case scenario my skin would feel a tiny little bit irritated afterward.

[Proximal]

How clear is the water? Man my first dive for scuba certification was in a rock quarry, brings back memories.

[Fluidic Kimbo]

The water is very very clear. It is very turquoise (or 'cyan') in colour. I got these strips to test it. See pic:

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