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Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoThen it isn’t for gaining, it’s for enjoyment. My point remains the same, we don’t know whether this smoothie will push this person into caloric excess, and I’m sick of people making asinine statements about things they literally could not know about.
Additionally, to judge food on whether its purpose is for gaining and losing weight is some eating-disorder-ass shit, which I have no fucking tolerance for. Food is neutral and holds no moral implications, and its purposes extend to fuel and enjoyment, exclusively.
Seen way too many friends almost die from this kind of rhetoric to not say anything.
starik@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
To say it is for gaining is just joking about the fact that it is packed with sugar, which is high in calories.
Sure, it is hypothetically possible the OP is running such a calorie deficit that a milkshake doesn’t put them over the top for the day. Or maybe it doesn’t contain sugar and is therefor relatively low-calorie.
But your average person isn’t going to be drinking something that looks like that for its nutritional value. We do it because it tastes good, and we all understand that if we eat that much sugar too often, we gain weight.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I don’t care if people think im taking it too seriously. That kind of rhetoric 100% influences people who are vulnerable to eating disorders.
The person in the original post who said “for enjoyment” was trying to counteract that kind of rhetoric, and to respond with “for gaining then” is fucking asinine – and I’ll admit I responded emotionally, but I’ve been bombarded with subtle, plausibly deniable jabs about food like this my Entire. Fucking. Life. On all sides. I’m tired of it, so ya, I’ll call it out when I see it even if somebody thinks im taking it too seriously, because if it helps one person reading it feel heard and avoid falling into disordered eating, it’s a net positive imo.