My knowledge on weight loss is very limited and while individual anecdotes might not be useful for the masses, my personal experience is that whenever I cook something horrible, I lose all appetite for a while.

Take today for example. I’m staying for a few weeks abroad and went shopping with the idea of making simple chicken wraps. Something I’m normally okay at. But of course, I couldn’t find the mushrooms and the peppers were all gone and somehow I ended up with just chicken, onions, rice and a handful of tiny wraps. At least the apartment had all the spices at my disposal.

So come dinner time, my plan is to make up for the lack of variety in vegetables by putting in lots of onion…

…And here I’m a few hours later trying to rinse the apartment of the onion smell that has now possessed all the rooms, with a more or less empty stomach and a temporary hatred for all food involved.

This is probably one of the worst things I’ve “cooked” and believe me, there have been screw-ups before. Maybe it’s subconscious sabotage when I haven’t been very active for a while to keep me from expanding my beer belly.

The only other time I had been able to crush all my appetite is when I used to game a lot. My friends found me wild for suggesting that sitting on a chair all day and potentially snacking like crazy is a genuine way of losing weight. They are certainly right that it is unhealthy but in my case, wildly successful. Who has time for food when you are busy raiding with 24 other people? While I was never overweight for my height, at times I would consider myself skinny-fat and I used to prefer being just skinny. Talk about unhealthy views.

That’s it for today’s unconventional and horrible weight loss advice, follow my blog for more! Anyway all these words about weight is making me want to hit the gym, just not today.