Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

I hate the framing of a "diet."

It should be weird to gorge ourselves on junk. But it's so normal that we have a special word for *not* doing that (diet).

Is there a good way to flip this? When someone pressures me, I could say "No thanks, I'm not on a junker today."

Is that dumb?

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I think it once meant, taking a break from eating light shit. Now I just hear a tool to describe the pattern of eating you’re in. I have more of a problem with people describing their diets in terms of identify, I’m vegan, I’m keto, etc.

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This is fair -- it's a useful and efficient way to label a set of behaviors.

Upon reflection, I'm more upset at the default behavior (thoughtless junk) than I am at the word "diet".

I think the difference for most is that you have to give a label to the thing you don’t want to do.  Assign it as a task.  We have our own, cheat day

A good thing I’ve adopted is to say eg “I’m a carb snob” and avoid eating something unhealthy unless it’s really really good. Eg I’d avoid a crappy croissant from Starbucks but I’d definitely have one from a good bakery.