Learn What it means to "Eat Dirty"

Seems legit...

...except I like the three "bad" foods.

Asparagus oiled, salted, and grilled...

...and brussel sprouts sauteed in bacon grease (or roasted w/ garlic)...

...and black licorice by the pound.

Thank goodness that's not my diet!

Although I have to admit that the first two and last three dishes do look appealing. Maybe the ninth too - or maybe not, they look like they might have the dry, crunchy, over-baked texture (don't bake them, bake them a lot less, or add more rolled grains to the ground grains).

Some notes:
- The pizza is either wearing too much sunblock, or needs to be drained before it gets zits. But admittedly, it is great diet food: when I have pizza that shiny, it comes out faster than I can digest it.
- Bacon on ground beef is a waste of good bacon.
- Toaster pastries (like spray cheeses) are meant to be supplies for abstract art and engineering projects, not as negative reinforcement against eating perfectly fine ice-cream
- If you take the time to tie up your asparagus, your not eating it fresh enough: it should be treated more like sweet corn - eat it shortly before harvesting if possible.
- You forgot deep fried Snickers and beer. You should remind people who are new to dieting that they are OK too, because they might have heard otherwise.

Yeah, my diet has made me pickier: I am no longer willing to eat a lardy popular food just to be nice to the people around me. There's not enough calories in the day for that.

And I would thank you to stop trying to convince people that it's "bad" if I don't eat as seen on TV. These posts ARE used by people to try to tell me that I *have* to eat the crappy **** to loose weight. Not Helpful. When I have the stuff I like - like eating a whole melon, my preferred kind of cheat day - I get told that it "can't be maintained" and I should have some high fat, high sugar crap instead of all that "melon sugar". WTF? I *like* melons! And then I get told that the nachos-beer-hot-dog selection at a bout is good enough for everyone, even though it's stuff I Don't Like To Eat! "Oh... but it's good for your diet, look at this list of posts." F*** no! It's #%* I didn't like to eat, and *still* don't like to eat!

Yeah, I'm sick of lardy "comfort food", I'm sick of fried-faux-cheese anything, I'm sick of cramming protein, and I'm sick of meals that are sugar held together with oil and modified food starch, Why am I ostracized for not liking these??? Can't I eat what *I* like???

Dude. you totally missed the point. nobody is telling you to eat foods that you genuinely do not like so please do not try to misconstrue things and make it seem like someone is trying to force feed you pizza. i think the point is that if you like pizza and decide that you would like to enjoy a slice every now & then, that's ok. that is all. so if you want to eat a melon more than anything else in the world then go eat a melon and chill out.

don't worry. that guy PERFECTLY illustrates the sort of strawman arguments we routinely see here from the people who don't understand IIFYM. sure, he's trying to hijack the thread (which is a clear violation of the TOS), but that stuff he posted is helpful for others to see why i posted this thread. there's a difference between what IIFYM actually is and what the people who don't like IIFYM claim it is.

I of course love this post and am not sure why it's in chit chat as it's a thousand times more useful than 95% of the other bs that's posted on these forums.

but um. y u have asparagus as a no no food???? asparagus is delicious. I vote for lima beans to take its place

I can give one reason...

Stink stank stunk

I thought the smelly pee was a myth

Black licorice candy apples. Mmmmm!

I had posts nearly identical to this thrown at me last night to try to convince me I had to eat stuff I don't like. Your version of the OP's "intention" of the post is not how it was taken by the people trying to use things indistinguishable from it against my preferred way to eat.

I believe this is what's known as "projecting".

And it's been a long day for me, so I could be missing something, but that guy's "version" of OP's "intention" is likely valid...

...since he *is* the OP.

Black licorice candy apples. Mmmmm!

This sounds and looks delicious.

I of course love this post and am not sure why it's in chit chat as it's a thousand times more useful than 95% of the other bs that's posted on these forums.

but um. y u have asparagus as a no no food???? asparagus is delicious. I vote for lima beans to take its place

I can give one reason...

Stink stank stunk

I thought the smelly pee was a myth

NOT a myth. Never EVER eat asparagus within 36 hours before anticipated conjugal relations. Unless your significant other really has a thing for week-old dead fish.

been there done that. never had complaints. maybe I didn't eat enough of it or i truly am a special snowflake. I like option #2.

I vaguely remember that not everyone has the gene that makes asparagus pee...

...so yes, it could be a special snowflake situation...

...but I could be completely making that up. Either way, I'm too lazy to google it.