When did you start counting?

[aussiebound]

Tonight at dinner while I was scanning the menu for what to order an odd thought came to me. I haven't looked at food as just "Food" in a long time. I'm always crunching numbers in my head when I look at a menu, 40g protien, 20g of fat, 50g of carbs, etc. I only see it in that type of breakdown. I asked my girlfriend when she noticed when I stopped looking at food the way the layman does as just food. The only time I look at it like "food" is on my cheat meal. Just an interesting thought.

 

[Lee]

ive been doing it for a long while now. always lookin at nutritional info and counting cals. no so much right now though since im bulking

 

[PoyeBoy]

dude, thats a great fucking question.

Im on ckd right now, and I do that with everyting, even on the cheat day, just out of habit.

I hat when I see mah friends get shit food, or food with carbs, and I naturally kind of shiver, or have a bad look on mah face(odd i know), then they look at me like "Dude, WTF? I cant get these two jelly glazed krispy cremes, and 2 bottles of starbucks frapachino?"

everyone thinks im a freak, welly well, guess what? I am, but I have abs that I can see, thats enough for me, thats all the motivation I need.

 

[AlbinoAssassin]

I always do it, I find myself adding shit up in my head at the end of the day. Even on cheat days I do it, it's kind of sad. People can't understand why I do that, then they wonder how I look like I do. It's kind of funny. I have conscious thoughts about everything I put into my body.

 

[sk*]

Yep, it's a habbit with me ... I always count.

-sk

 

[slobberknocker]

Estimate the nutritional content of my avatar.

 

[Slugfast]

so speaking of this angle on the subject, do any of you all feel like you have "Adonis Complex" 's? Ive read that it is a new development in men, primarily the late teenage years to early 30's where the men primarily don't feel they are thin enough or muscular enough. I read somewhere that it involves obsessive working out and counting calories. If it ends up being a medical condition that society grasps onto, I just wonder how many of us fall into that category? It seems that if you are hitting up the gym almost everyday for a few hours you would fall into this... I know that I would fall into the category, primarily that I am never lean enough, and not muscular enough, even though I am repeatidly told that by my parents whenever I occaisonally see them.

But the even weirder aspect of it is that I don't mind it. I feel that by working out obsessively, I am taking charge of my life, keeping myself out of bad situations, out of drugs, out of alcohol abuse. I dont feel that I am working out for any reason other than to benefit myself.


I would love to hear your alls thoughts on this.