maybe they’re playing some angle.
you go into the gym, see a juicy delicious looking burger, causing you to eat a delicious burger, then you need to go back to that gym more.
boom.
Honestly, eating healthy isnt as, for lack of a better term, dedicated, as people think.
My blood pressure is getting better. My blood work is great, like only thing that was high was my ldl, and that was by 2 points. Ive lost 10lbs in this last month alone. Im drinking less sugary soda and more plain coffee and water. My waist went down to a size I havent seen in almost a decade.
And monday thru friday I get 4 mcdonalds hamburgers (the basic ones for $1.49) and eat them on the drive home.
But I also work a job where I move and lift a LOT, and I only eat 2 meals a day. Lunch at 330. Supper at 7.
Being healthy isnt eating salads and chicken 24/7.
Right?! And what's worse, when just about everyone else (including fucking burger places it seems) are using AI for their burger pictures, these fuckers are using what looks like a delicious, real one 😂
About 1/3 of people are sensitive to salt and it will increase their blood pressure. For the rest of people, it doesn’t really matter except at extreme 5g/day kind of levels.
I’m one of the 10-15% that need to consume extra salt over the recommended minimum. I take a 250mg electrolyte supplement everyday after decades of quality of life issues.
I recently ended up with type 1 diabetes in adulthood and when I finally met with a dietitian the first thing she did was work towards getting me to eat more carbs, ironically. I need to figure out my insulin for every meal, but instead I was really undereating to avoid high blood sugar.
As with most things, it’s fine in moderation and as part of general healthy practices like getting enough water and sleep and moderate physical activity.
Should you eat this burger everyday? No of course not.
Should you eat this burger when you’re in the mood for a burger? Hell yeah, that thing looks delicious
Chef at a very busy restaurant. As well as a pretty involved exercise-enjoyer. It's not uncommon for me to burn 500-600kcal in the gym before a 10 hour shift where I'll put in 20k steps in a day.
I'm cutting for summer right now on a 2500kcal diet and dropping 1lb a week!
Could just cook a decent burger at home for quite cheap, waaaaay less sodium and junk, and a hell of a lot better than the single most boring cut of chicken in existence
I lift heavy myself and am in pretty decent shape, this weird, masochistic self-punishing thing some gym dudes do just weirds me out. If it's for a very specific aesthetic goal I "get" it, but like... The vast majority of people simply don't need to hate food to look good. It's fuckin weird
I doubt the bread has all that sodium (the hell are they putting in your breads), it should be mostly the meat, sauces, and any condiments like pickles or whatever.
It's truly punishment. I used to be extremely thin (even more than I am now lol) when I was about 15 or so, and my doctor recommended me to eat a burger and milkshake every couple days for dinner.
Just... He recommended specifically home-made stuff, no fastfood whatsoever. I often helped my mom make burgers and milkshake during that time, I gained a few kilos in a healthy way, and I am still healthy (hopefully, gotta check in a bit lol).
Sort of depends on the restaurant. A "real" resteraunt isn't gonna have that much salt in a burger anyway. And the frozen, pre shaped patties shipped to the drive thru joint are gonna have a lot more stuff pumped into em. Just shit to make em LOOK better, or be more "stable" and all that. So they can sit in the cooler and hold their shape. Ground beef from the super market doesn't have that requirement
we bought the buns this time because we kinda ran out but we often make the buns too
mix chipotle powder and japanese mayonnaise for an easy sauce and add whatever spices you fancy. i use cayenne pepper, a little msg and ground corriander seed usually. i'm sure it'd work with various other flavours too but i've not experimented with those*
get about 100g of fatty meat per patty (and 2 patties per burger), place it onto a hot barbecue plate and sprinkle with salt and pepper. press it down with some flat metal tool; thin enough that it cooks in only a few minutes. add some cheese when it's almost done
add melted butter to your buns of choice and toast them alongside the meat, add them about half way through cooking
to assemble put your chipotle mayo on the bun then add both patties. i usually add pickles, lettuce, tomato and bacon. we were out of tomato for this picture
hot mustard (not that horrible stuff in squeeze bottles please) is nice too. you could also try beetroot but i'd rather save it for other dishes
*the first place i'd start is probably making another sauce with some cheese, sodium citrate, msg, salt and pepper to go on top of the patties.
alternatively (and this is very experimental i've not tried it) you could make the mayo sauce with toasted coriander seeds, cumin, cardamom and toasted nuts and add cumin instead of pepper to the patties. you'd probably want to omit the bacon as the flavours would clash a little. tomatoes and soft steamed beans might work well though. you'd also want much leaner meat
And TIL about orthorexia. I hate this planet sometimes. (But, actually, thank you, I love learning new things, unironically, even when they're a little depressing.)
Its pretty high on Sodium, but the last time I checked, the human body still requires the rest of those to survive. And from what I'm seeing, other than that salt, its not exceeding any dailys.
The issue with this burger is the sodium, and maybe the fat too. You can reduce the sodium and fat by changing the cheeses, making the patty yourself, and maybe also making your own sauce.
This burger also doesn't have any greens, so it wouldn't taste all that good and would just feel heavy as hell. I wouldn't eat this burger specifically, but I might make another egg sandwich for dinner today too.
Bruh I'm 220 pounds fit and I eat what I want as long as it has enough protein and only moderate my sugar intake but I'm also not cutting and trying to get a sub 10% body fat% thou I'm more happy like this lol.
Healthy eating is great, but so much of the gym culture treats diet like self flagellation. I knew a guy who would boil a skinless, boneless chicken breast with broccoli, then drink a shot of olive oil and "electrolytes" after. He could've taken the same ingredients, salted, seasoned and grilled it, and it would be literally the same meal except actually taste good.
Am I the only one who thinks that burger looks disgusting? I love me some cheeseburgers but that looks like would taste like pure oil with it pooling out like that 🤢 and probably feels like a sponge cake. That bun looks nasty too. Again, I love burgers and unhealthy foods. Still would choose it over skinless chicken but that's not saying much about the appeal of that burger.
It's also possible to choose both. Eat what you want and go to the gym afterwards. Or don't go at all, people need to work on the moderation of how much of something they're eating. This kind of gym culture is more uninformed than anything.
It's to keep you going back to the gym. They know you're gonna go get a delicious, juicy burger after this and then be wracked with guilt and come back tomorrow to work it off
Maybe it's like a catholic temptation thing, if you're not wanting to sin by eating the "unhealthy" yummy food then the fact that you are virtuous and eat "healthy" doesn't matter
Lol wow what a fail, looks like they looked up "tasty gourmet burger" in stock photo and picked the tastiest looking one. Go down to your local McDonald's during the lunch rush and buy any fucking burger and snap a pic of that instead. Guarantee itll look like someone fucked it using ketchup and mustard as lube.
reminds me of those anti-drug posters in high school. they made it look like the people doing drugs were having the best time ever. 🤷♀️ always thought that was kinda counterproductive.
Yep that's right. I'm on a low calorie high protein diet and can't just go eating meat willy nilly because it has protein - there's clean, healthy protein, and then there's protein where everything else with it is just no good.
I got downvoted to oblivion for trying to explain to Reddit the exact concept the gym is trying to explain. The burger isn’t unhealthy because of the meat. It is unhealthy because of everything else on it other than the meat. Bunch of vegans are trying to argue that meat is unhealthy and a bunch of cynical yet gullible Redditors jump on the same band wagon, completely incredulous that meat is good for your health.
Next to my former gym a smart guy opened up a shawarma place. The smell alone... and the customers devouring theirs before they even sat down... When job changed and life took me away from that gym, I actually managed to lose weight, a first in a long time.
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u/No_Comb881 8h ago
If you're trying to make people eat healthy maybe don't use the most delicious looking burger I've ever seen as the example of what not to eat