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Originally Posted by Aspengc8
Well said. It's all a part of living a healthy lifestyle. I'm sure most of you in this thread are passionate about your hobbies, which include working out, lifting, running, etc. You tend to eat, drink and generally adapt your overall lifestyle to fit that mold. I've been asked at BBQ's, "why can't i just eat like a normal person" when I turn down some pasta salad or something else I don't really need to eat. I just look around at all the other guys there.. "because I don't want to be normal".
Below is one of my favorite snippets from Dave Tate. I wonder how many of you have also been in this situation?
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Let's say you're at a table with seven people and everyone's ordering their food. You're at the end so you're ordering last. They're getting ribs, chicken strips, spaghetti, and whatever. No one in the group cares what they're ordering. The conversation stays the same. Then it comes to you and your first question is, "How do you prepare your chicken breasts?"
People start looking at you.
Then you order two plain chicken breasts with a side of broccoli with no butter or seasoning. The waiter writes it down and off he goes to the kitchen. Now everyone's looking at you like you're a freak.
They didn't care that your other friend was eating ribs. They didn't say shit when the guy ordered his chicken strips. So how is your meal selection any different? It blows my mind.
If you ordered something that was complete shit, no one would say anything. But because you ordered something to help you achieve a goal, it's a problem. And now for the next ten minutes you're having that stupid ****ing conversation.
"It's so easy for you to lose weight," they say. "I can't do it."
And you're thinking, really? Here I am at Outback Steakhouse ordering two plain chicken breasts and broccoli – which is gonna cost me 40 bucks by the way – and it's easy? This is something I want to do? You think I want to sit here and watch you ****ers eat wings and ribs? I'm here for your company, not to give you dieting tips you're not gonna listen to.
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It's the "I can't do it" part that makes me want to set these people on fire. They can. They just don't.
Also, my family does this shit EVERY TIME THEY SEE ME. However, they don't ask for tips. They just roll their eyes at me and tell me that I'm missing out on life because I passed on the dinner roll. They comment that we eat like freaks and that nothing is worth that, but they really don't have any clue what we eat.
My mom was getting mad because I told her I was too busy to go to her place for dinner on my birthday this year so I told everyone to come to my place & I'd cook. I grilled flank steak that had been soaking up a citrus/raspberry wine/brown mustard marinade, grilled asparagus, my homemade sweet potato fries, and my wife made "paleo" almond balls for dessert. They all thought the food was amazing and couldn't believe that this was the type of food we actually eat. I thought we had turned a corner, but I was wrong. It seems they completely forgot about it and the eye rolling continues.
