Military Diet.

Most active duty military look good physically beacuse the job requires pleanty of physical activity as well as near 24 hour access to a multitude of fitness options. It has nothing to do with intake and all about the burn.

I disagree that 'most active duty look good physically.' A good portion are fat and out of shape. Unless you're in infantry or special ops/warfare/forces, then you won't see as many fat bodies because their lives depend on it. But most servicemembers work in support jobs behind the wire, not infantry.

My original post was just kinda-sorta joking. We eat like crap in the military, and if you don't have a rating/mos/whatever that requires a lot of physical activity, you will gain a lot of weight. Particularly if you have a job that requires long hours where you simply don't have access to gym equipment. I'm here because I'm recovering from gaining 30 lbs on sea duty. Your only choices are to always feel hungry, or to eat 3-4000 calories of a high carb, high fat diet, high preservative diet and the one broken treadmill onboard paired with lack of sleep isn't going to keep the weight off.

I'm not offended by the term, it's actually an underhanded compliment made by someone who clearly hasn't walked around a base. I just thought it was funny that people thought servicemembers ate fresh produce everyday in the middle of the desert or the middle of the ocean. Produce spoils after like 5 days, the food takes that long to even get delivered, let alone until it's prepared and eaten. Rice, potatoes, pasta, and canned goods are the things that don't spoil, so it is mostly what people in the military eat. Meat/chicken is expensive, and the military has to feed hundreds of thousands of people, so we get cheap cuts of meat.

In all seriousness, the diet she posted was okay for macros but she probably has to double all the portions of everything in order to lose weight at a healthy pace. It's also not sustainable for the long term and will not build the habits one needs to form to lose weight.

Not in my Corps...there are no fat Marines. There are fat squids, fat airmen, and fat soldiers...there are no fat *kitten* Devil Dogs. That is all...Oorah...carry on!

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It's funny because you're being serious...

:huh: No... just no. that's not enough to sustain anyone for any length of time.

Most active duty military look good physically beacuse the job requires pleanty of physical activity as well as near 24 hour access to a multitude of fitness options. It has nothing to do with intake and all about the burn.

I disagree that 'most active duty look good physically.' A good portion are fat and out of shape. Unless you're in infantry or special ops/warfare/forces, then you won't see as many fat bodies because their lives depend on it. But most servicemembers work in support jobs behind the wire, not infantry.

My original post was just kinda-sorta joking. We eat like crap in the military, and if you don't have a rating/mos/whatever that requires a lot of physical activity, you will gain a lot of weight. Particularly if you have a job that requires long hours where you simply don't have access to gym equipment. I'm here because I'm recovering from gaining 30 lbs on sea duty. Your only choices are to always feel hungry, or to eat 3-4000 calories of a high carb, high fat diet, high preservative diet and the one broken treadmill onboard paired with lack of sleep isn't going to keep the weight off.

I'm not offended by the term, it's actually an underhanded compliment made by someone who clearly hasn't walked around a base. I just thought it was funny that people thought servicemembers ate fresh produce everyday in the middle of the desert or the middle of the ocean. Produce spoils after like 5 days, the food takes that long to even get delivered, let alone until it's prepared and eaten. Rice, potatoes, pasta, and canned goods are the things that don't spoil, so it is mostly what people in the military eat. Meat/chicken is expensive, and the military has to feed hundreds of thousands of people, so we get cheap cuts of meat.

In all seriousness, the diet she posted was okay for macros but she probably has to double all the portions of everything in order to lose weight at a healthy pace. It's also not sustainable for the long term and will not build the habits one needs to form to lose weight.

Even a support unit in the Army (which I was in - Aviation) we still PT at 6am - every day for 1.5hours. There was no getting out of it unless you were going to sick call every day and that ended up being written up for Malingering. Yup, we eat like crap in the military but burned it off pretty quick too Every Friday was a 10 mile battallion run... god I hate running...

Agreed.

P.S. If you've been in a military chow hall… you know that the notion of a diet structured after the military is laughable.