Yeah, I get it. My line of work has a lot on of call in top of long days. With that said, and as entertaining as this forum has been the last week or two, if we have time to spend on a forum, we have time to prepare. Here's my unsolicited advice:
1. Meals don't have to be fancy or even hot. Go to a Walmart or other grocer, and pick up some precooked foods you can open and eat. Rice packets, precooked chicken breast or steak, etc. Lately I've been keeping cans of tuna in olive oil in my work truck in case I get hungry after my meals are gone. Bumblebee and starkist have some new flavors out that are quite good and still healthy. It's better than anything you can get at a fast food joint.
2 . Maximize your time. Again, we all waste some time if we're honest with ourselves. It doesn't take much more time to run into a supermarket than to go through the fast food drive through. Also, by eating healthier, your energy will be higher all day more consistent. Thus making it easier to make the most of down time. Especially if you aren't working 7 days a week.
3. Stop making excuses for yourself. I'd rather be fat than lie to myself. I've read your thread. If you're going to be hard on yourself, do it on this. Be the man you want to be. I doubt the ideal version of you is just fit. He holds himself accountable and can be honest with himself about areas for improvement. What good is looking great to the women of the world if you aren't the high quality man that keeps them around for the long haul? They don't want a man-child to dominate forever. (Back me up on this
@iris) They want a leader who makes them better.
They also are better cooks than us and keeping one around makes meal prep so much easier...
Hello Sir,
I am replying to you, as you mentioned me. Thank you.
Everything you write is sensible.
I do want to give Rek credit for all he has achieved, so far, even taking into account a diet that has not been optimal, let’s just say.
And he is eating so little that, obviously, having something with a better nutritional profile would also make him feel better, as you say.
But he has not been living in optimal circumstances, either and, despite not working at the weekend, I don't know if he actually returns home all the time, or at all.
I imagine when he does go back home, he is able to eat better.
I also know he is outdoors the whole day, regardless of how tired he is, he makes time for the gym, and has been consistent with it all.
When you talk about accountability, I would think that Rek has been accountable to himself, otherwise he would not have changed the way he has.
In his own way, which people may find questionable, he has managed.
I do not think he should feel inadequate because not all pieces of the puzzle are in place.
However, he has the chance to think about we does, also in light of all the great suggestions and comments he has received here, and consider whether it is possible for him to make amendments or improvements.
People have different characters/temperaments and we mature at different paces.
I guess it's also to do with what one has been exposed to, in life and one's younger years.
This is in response to you writing about being "a quality man" and "a leader".
Everyone has a journey that is shaped differently.
You end saying he should get a woman to get going with his meal prep.
In time, all things come, right?
And someone with whom he can share cooking and doing the washing up with will also materialise.
He is so lovable, it cannot but happen.