Unpopular opinions

Fruits have mystical micronutrients that science doesn't have names for yet, and are Good For You in ways that can't be quantified

Coarse-ground brown mustard is anabolic (empirical)

It's okay to do non-optimal stuff to virtuous food to make it palatable. If few tbsp of panko bread crumbs makes the difference between eating 8 oz of chicken breast and NOT eating it, do it already

Fake sugar is mehhh probably fine

Indian spices are legit medicinal

Instead of milk, just buy heavy cream and dilute it if you want

Tofu good, edamame good, soy sauce okay; other forms of soy are bad for indefinable, intuitive reasons

Salt is never optional. I love salt. I use plenty of salt. Around here, I think that's an unpopular opinion in itself.

Also, I like vinegar, so yeah, I like vinegar on fries. Yeah, ideally malt vinegar for that.

But I still like ketchup better. Ketchup also tends to be unpopular around here, seems like - evils of hidden sugar, blah blah blah. OK. So I get a good unsweetened brand, not so much because it's unsweetened, but when making unsweetened ketchup they're nearly forced to use better-tasting tomatoes. It's not unusual for me to eat a quarter to half a cup of ketchup on something, usually potatoes but not always.

And speaking of vinegar, I also like vinegar a lot. People here are often yuck to ACV, but I like it. The old-school-style drinks called "shrubs" made with ACV and fruit? Tasty. Cupboard is full of different kinds of vinegar . . . not flavored vinegars, but different types, like red wine, white wine, sherry, beer, coconut (sourced, not flavored), champagne, balsamic, white balsamic, rice wine . . . and more.

As an alcoholic with 6 years of sobriety under my belt, I can tell you this with complete confidence.

There is zero difference between having one beer and feeling compelled to have five more, and eating one cookie and feeling compelled to eat five more.

The fix is exactly the same: don’t *kitten* with that *kitten*.

If you can eat a few bites of any food and stop without an internal struggle, that food is safe.

If, after a few bites, you feel an overwhelming urge to keep eating, it's time to start treating that food like an addictive drug.

Admitting you can't handle them is the first step to abstinence 😁

The magic of intermittent fasting. Even if I only intermittently ate 3 hours a day I could gain weight. I could have yummy barbecue, lots of air fried waffle fries and of course a huge Sunday and cram all those calories and in 3 hours while I would be following my intermittent fasting plan I would be so sick for meeting so much in such a short time that it wouldn't be able to do anything else the rest of the day. I still believe in calories in calories out to lose weight and the best thing I've done is drop every scheme that I have tried and stick to counting calories and getting some kind of good exercising everyday (for the most part). Down 120 lb 23 for my goal :-) whoop whoop Good luck everybody

MFP is not Google. The forums are populated by humans who want to support others - stop asking us one liner questions without more info, or expect us to solve your lack of motivation / not losing weight / not gaining weight issues with one post.

(Sorry - grumpy as I have covid)