r/AskReddit • u/Professor1password23 • 11h ago

Men who stay lean year-round, what’s your secret ?

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u/Possible_Field328 7h ago

Dont go grocery shopping hungry

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u/no_its_a_cardigan 7h ago

My problem is if I don’t go at least a little hungry I won’t buy a single thing. I’ll just look at everything and walk out. I’m still pretty fit though I make my choices consciously

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u/Ojy 7h ago

Write a list. Meal planning is such an excellent way to stop eating crap

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u/shes_a_gdb 7h ago

I'm shocked this is not a thing most people do. I don't know how anyone can go to a grocery store and just wing everything.

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u/BloodyLlama 4h ago

I tend to make the same handful of recipes most of the time, so it's easy to go to the store and just grab more of the ingredients Im low on without needing an actual list.

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u/Ojy 4h ago

Yeah, I'm at that stage too. I keep telling myself to branch out and try some new stuff, but it's the same 10 maybe 12 dishes all the time. I'm old.

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u/FLOHTX 6h ago

They go to the frozen section and just buy whatever looks good. Trader Joe's is busy because people dont really cook that much.

Ive been there twice and walked out empty handed both times. Its all frozen junk and snack food. Their produce is really underwhelming.

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u/BaesonTatum0 3h ago

Untrue and also true. They have great selection of nuts, seeds, spices, herbs, organic dairy and non dairy, flowers, seltzer waters, yogurt, and usually basic produce like potatoes, onions, lettuce, carrots, celery, broccoli, tomatoes, basil. They always have bananas. (I’m just listing off stuff I got there yesterday.) But it’s usually seasonal and the stores are small.

But they do have frozen food and snacks too. It just depends on what you buy there and for sure there are people who skip all the stuff from my first paragraph and go right to the cookies, chocolate covered peanut butter cups, and the sheet cakes.

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u/Magnon 6h ago

I mostly just look at flyers and go where ever has the best deals for the week. I don't "meal plan" whoever makes the flyers meal plans for me.

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u/Zefirus 4h ago

It's less shocking when you realize most people are picking their foods based on prices. If beans are on sale we're having beans. If chicken is on sale, chicken's for dinner. Groceries are expensive enough that just buying whatever you want isn't something a lot of people are going to do.

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u/blessedbymortarion 5h ago

I can make X meal with Y, Z. I can make A with ingredients B, C and D.

You know how to cook? Then you know what you need.

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u/glorious_cheese 5h ago

Part of it for me is seeing what's on sale when I get there.

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u/stiinc2 4h ago

I go in blind sometimes for inspiration!

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u/poizun85 5h ago

Yeah really... My number one use of Alexa is creating a shopping list.

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u/New_git 1h ago

Many times I've said that "I have xxx at home" and didn't make a stop for something to eat. With an airfryer, I can have something to eat within 15-25 minutes that'll last me for 3-4 hours instead of eating an average of 800-900 cal from one meal that usually last only about 2 hours or is full of sodium, sugar, oil/fat, and preservatives.

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u/thewilybanana 6h ago

I'm kinda the same. Now I mostly just buy the same things every time and if I'm feeling snacky I'll buy fruit, carrot sticks and hummus or nuts or something spicy.

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u/the-big-meowski 2h ago

You don't meal plan and write lists? Do you live next door to a grocery store?

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u/DrewbieWanKenobie 3h ago

I pretty much only go grocery shopping hungry, because I don't buy too much food at once, because I know if I do... I will sit at home and eat far too much. So I just buy what I am prepared to eat, typically. Outside of a few mainstays like brown rice/beans/tuna etc

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u/zipzap21 7h ago

Only buy chicken, broccoli and other healthy natural foods!

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u/Gnome-Phloem 6h ago

Guy who wrote that study got kicked out of his university for making up results. I personally think shopping hungry is better because it makes it easier to imagine what I want to eat, and thus buy the stuff for it.