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548 sats \ 18 comments \ @ek 18h HealthAndFitness

I had this idea to just take pictures of everything I eat for a private photo album for a very long time—like a private Instagram for food, only for my future self.

However, for some reason, I always forget to take a picture of what I eat before I eat it.

I feel like that would make it fun to not eat shit, because I wouldn't want to flip through that photo album on the weekend and see that I only ate shit during the week. I could also use it to roughly count calories to make it even more useful, but I really just think it's a cool thing to do, and losing weight would be a side effect.

That's also how I like to approach losing weight: I shouldn't think about my weight, I just need to focus on having fun and feeling great. I remember that when I was in the best shape of my life, I just did what I wanted to do (climbing, long distance cycling, hiking) and was very happy seeing my progress. I also didn't eat much because I just had so much fun working in a professional context for the first time. This means I got into shape naturally. I wasn't necessarily thinking about losing weight or gaining muscles. I was just having a lot of fun and didn't even realize I was in pretty good shape until a girl told me that it impressed her.

Anyway, what do you think about the food photo album idea? Will you try to create one?

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118 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 18h

You can post your food pics here on SN.

132 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 18h

I was considering that but I am worried that it will distort my incentives.

Sharing everything about something you do online is also what I don't like about social media. You're basically inviting an audience to capture you like in #278856.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 18h

I’ll capture you 🫡

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @JesseJames 17h

Please don't...lol

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 18h

Post every meal to ~HealthAndFitness

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 18h

why don't you do it 👀

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 17h

I post my trolley and weight and workouts and some meals. Want more posts??

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 18h

Honestly, I won't create a food photo album because that is tiring, fun ruining, and tbh before eating who wants to click a photo?

What do I do? First of all, I see sitting as a crime, a new kind of smoking. Trust me, do something to track how long you sit, and then try to compare it with the old days when you claimed you did hiking and climbing. This made me happy that you take weight loss as fun; many look at it as a daunting thing. Always walk or run a lot, drink a lot of water, try, if possible to reduce your screen time, and try to live a stress free life as well (like ignoring news, taking early morning sunlight, or whatever makes you feel good 👀). Whatever I wrote is what I do; nothing special. I don't follow much of a super healthy diet; it's just moderate. I'm happy and possibly healthy. And don't think much; I see that if I don't care about something much, I'm unknowingly doing great there.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nzowashua 15h

Okey it might be there is freedom on sharing the information in social media, but as advise don't use or post your private issue in public

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @unschooled 15h

I liked reading about your idea. I think it's great. Are you a cooking enthusiast? Photographer?

A note:

I feel if this were to be done amateurly, you might get mixed reactions from anyone that stumbles across it. However, it could be a great conversation piece if you did it up, like to the max and took lots of pride in it, you know? Im talking, 8×10 gloss prints, studio level photographs/lighting. You can splash balsamic reduction across rectangular shaped plates in a pollockesque fashion before meticulously plating your food. Would be neat to see, for sure.

If you weren't willing to go all the way, and were worried about how others might react to this (?), you could buy one of those digital picture frames and keep it somewhere close to where you eat? It will flip through your meals. It could solve the eternal, "what should i cook tonight," question (which I ponder now as I write), because instead of standing with the fridge door open you could just chill out with your previous dinners until one of them jumps out at you. Also, this could be sneakily changed if you have guests coming over and want to create a more "normie" vibe. This way, it could just be about your personal relationship with your food.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @User21000000 16h

Having a private timeline of meals is the go not sharing everything is a good thing. Be like journaling but to only share it online so the content will be compromised. Dance like no one is watching

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 17h

Use olas and post to the nostr abyss. Since you are a nobody on nostr no one will ever notice what you are doing

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jakoyoh629 18h

Bad idea! That's gonna end one of two ways: either you get depressed 'cause the food's weak, or you get a bigger appetite.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 18h

I don't understand

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 18h

Look, if you're eating weak-ass food, it can bum you out when you think about it, or even just seeing pics of what you ate can make you wanna chow down more, and that's a problem if it's all bad stuff.