• Sailor Moon@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    I have to hide at work during lunch or just don’t eat because everyone comments on my salads or small, well portioned healthy meals. They always talk about my weight (“so skinny!!!”) and my food and use me as a catalyst to complain about their own weights. Its very uncomfortable. Those kinds of people always loved these kinds of memes.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    I’ve only ever seen this slander towards salads coming from the US, so I have to ask, are salads trash in the US?

    Do people imagine eating healthily is eating only lettuce (it isn’t)?

    I don’t get it

  • PancakeBrock@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Everyone always asks about my diet and then they are always shocked and amazed. I work construction and stopped eating processed food as much as possible. I have the same conversation everyday. The burrito lady pulls up, and everyone stops to buy one. I walk to my truck and eat an orange and some dates, maybe some cashews. Everyone is like your not going to get a burrito, that’s crazy. We all went out to lunch the other day. Ordered a salad with grilled chicken and it blew everyone’s mind. The other superintendent was all "are you Jewish or something."I said nope I’ve just lost 30 pounds in 6 months. Then he was like “wait really? You lost 30 pounds just by changing what you eat?” I was like yep that’s all it took. Also apparently he doesn’t know what kosher food is.

  • don@lemm.ee
    2·
    3 months ago

    Fuck you, salads are awesome. Eat a good salad, realize you’re an idiot, and apologize to the universe for being an idiot.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    In a time of crisis where 75% of US adults are overweight or obese, it actually is a good thing that we talk to people in our lives about things we’re doing to lose weight, as long as that’s being used as a positive example and not a way to act superior. (Also, if eating salads makes you sad, you’re doing salad wrong; iceberg lettuce with a few croutons and dressing is a salad in the same way that unseasoned broth with noodles and nothing else is soup.)

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      3 months ago

      Most restaurant or premade Cesar salads are not that healthy and have just as much calories as other options. Lettuce in itself is basically just water with a small amount of nutrients so eating it does basically nothing (positive or negative), for some people it might help with satiety by giving you a full stomach feeling but personally I’d rather not chew on greens for hours like a ruminant and prefer to drink ample water alongside/after my meal for the same effect while making sure I eat plenty of vegetables for the actual good nutrients etc.

      Anyway yeah these Cesars from restaurants etc are doused in sauce and have a bunch of calorie-dense ingredients so they’re not always a great choice (but fine to have as long as they fit your calorie allowance, just like anything else). Just make sure to balance your carb/fat/protein ratio and not go over the calories, but otherwise just eat whatever you want!

      • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 months ago

        There’s like, 1 place that does a good cesar salad where I live but I can assure you: I do not eat them for health reasons, they’re just fucking delicious.

  • Sippy Cup@lemmy.world
    01·
    3 months ago

    LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOW CARBS ARE BAD FOR YOU THO

    I am truly, truly sorry to every person who ever said to me “hey man you lost some weight what you doin keto?” And I didn’t just say “yeah basically” and let it end there. I just… I’m really, really excited about it.