Sorry for “XY Problem”-ing this, but I felt strong sad emotion when reading your post and couldn’t resist trying to help—you wrote:
Unless I’m eating with other people, food for me is fuel.
Have you tried to rearrange your life so that you can eat the breakfast together with people you care much more often, to the point where you no longer care to make it as quick as possible?
There’s only so many ways our hardware can be stimulated to feel happy, don’t give up on “eating together with close people”!
As a reasonably active tall person, allow me to try to mitigate some of your sadness!
I suspect some people like me who eat time-optimized food do so because they have to eat a lot of food. I can eat 2000 calories worth of time efficient, nutrient dense food, and still go eat a big meal of conventionally tasty food with other people without blowing my calorie budget. Or I can eat breakfast, and then immediately leave to go eat re-breakfast because by the time I get there I’ll be hungry again.
Trying to eat my entire calorie budget in more traditional ways would effectively mean I’m never doing anything but eating. I did that for a while, but it becomes a real chore.
Thank you for this Data Point. I’m 6′1″ and age 43 and still have these issues. I thought by now I would not need as much food, but it’s still there. I’m still rail thin, and I can easily eat two breakfasts and elevensies before 1pm lunch.
One thing I love is my instant pot. It can get me a porridge of maple syrup, buckwheat groats, sprouted brown rice, and nuts and dried fruit within 20 minutes by just dumping in ingredients. Yeah, it only lasts 90 minutes or so, but I have enough to eat it again in 90 minutes. Later, for lunch, I can combine some more with a 12″ subway sandwich or something.
Sorry for “XY Problem”-ing this, but I felt strong sad emotion when reading your post and couldn’t resist trying to help—you wrote:
Have you tried to rearrange your life so that you can eat the breakfast together with people you care much more often, to the point where you no longer care to make it as quick as possible?
There’s only so many ways our hardware can be stimulated to feel happy, don’t give up on “eating together with close people”!
As a reasonably active tall person, allow me to try to mitigate some of your sadness!
I suspect some people like me who eat time-optimized food do so because they have to eat a lot of food. I can eat 2000 calories worth of time efficient, nutrient dense food, and still go eat a big meal of conventionally tasty food with other people without blowing my calorie budget. Or I can eat breakfast, and then immediately leave to go eat re-breakfast because by the time I get there I’ll be hungry again.
Trying to eat my entire calorie budget in more traditional ways would effectively mean I’m never doing anything but eating. I did that for a while, but it becomes a real chore.
Thank you for this Data Point. I’m 6′1″ and age 43 and still have these issues. I thought by now I would not need as much food, but it’s still there. I’m still rail thin, and I can easily eat two breakfasts and elevensies before 1pm lunch.
One thing I love is my instant pot. It can get me a porridge of maple syrup, buckwheat groats, sprouted brown rice, and nuts and dried fruit within 20 minutes by just dumping in ingredients. Yeah, it only lasts 90 minutes or so, but I have enough to eat it again in 90 minutes. Later, for lunch, I can combine some more with a 12″ subway sandwich or something.