It's like 5 calories of broccoli with all those nutrients, but like 350 of basically empty carbs.

Tasty food just makes you want to eat more.

halve the rice and triple the broccoli

Everyone has different nutritional needs. If you're doing chicken broccoli rice, it's probably because it's much easier to measure out an exact amount of macronutrients to fit your needs and fill up the rest on broccoli to make it as satiating as needed.

When you're a fatty, loathing is at an all time high. I was never fat, but I've lost 20 lbs since February eating pretty similar to this

Theres a gym bro at my work who eats the same meals everyday. Its something like plain oatmeal, protein shake, boiled chicken, greek yogurt. Every day, no seasoning, all plain and boring. He was complaining to me that he has to almost force himself to eat sometimes and im just thinking like "yeah no shit, you eat wall paste every meal".

Meh. Everything in moderation. Including self-imposed suffering. Sleep late. Eat tasty food. Have days where you just exist. Fuel is for cars.

It does make those cheat days 100x more special though.

It's so insane to me because i've trained myself to be quite in tune with my body's needs.
Turns out animals are evolved to seek out the food they need to function and thus we have the ability to actually enjoy healthy food and even get cravings for things with the specific nutrients we need at that point in time.
Thinking that food shouldn't be pleasurable is like thinking that a well-functioning diesel engine should be making horrid grinding noises and intermittently release smoke from the gaskets..

If you just stop eating so much sugar and as much as possible try to cook things from scratch, or at least eat things where you know precisely what ingredients are in it and how it would have been prepared, you should be able to regain the proper feedback from your gut and have a very healthy relationship to food.

I'd also recommend as often as possible trying to wait to eat until you're really hungry so you can calibrate your sense of hunger (but like, be smart about it, make sure to eat something if you're gonna do stuff that needs calories and stable blood sugar levels), and try to taste everything once so your body can associate that thing with the nutrients in it.
Also also try to sneak in vegetables into every meal in some way, even if it's just adding 2 peas or whatever. That'll psychologically and physically normalize it, so you start wanting it more. Your gut flora is a pretty significant part of what decides your cravings and if you consistently eat something the gut flora will change to things that like digesting those things and thus make you crave them more.

On a cut like this you dont want to actually see your food.

Don't deserve flavour, don't deserve light.

my brother in Christ, the blitz is over, the bombs have stopped - you no longer have to eat like this

I have eaten like this before. Food is fuel and construction material. I need the nutrition to operate my body. Nothing more. The less I think about what it tastes like the more I can think about it as numbers on a spreadsheet.

That being said if I were OP I'd invest in a slow cooker and yes, some paprika. Maybe some dehydrated garlic, cumin, and cayenne as well. This exact dish would be much more appealing if the chicken were shredded and it was in a bowl on top of the rice and broccoli.

Edit: also that's nowhere near enough broccoli

From personal experience its because we like food way to much. Its harder to eat less when the food tastes good. I found it was much easier when I treated food like an activity I had to force myself to do. I'd just cook some meat and boil some mixed veggies and then force it down. I was eating like 200-500g of pasta and almost a kg of food for dinner I felt so fucking sick after every meal.

At that point even if I seasoned the chicken I was so sick of it that I would still not enjoy it.

I bet most have gyms as well.

Is this a general offer? Because that offer sounds kind of incredible.

Saaaaame. I will feed you good healthy food and it won't even be sxpensive. I'll show you how to make it. Fuck, i'll show you how to put a couple pots and a grow light in your kitchen so you always have some fucking electrolyte heavy veggies to snack on.

I can't get over the broccoli portion!! I eat 20 times that!

Yeah it's insane honestly. My own meals are probably like 70% vegetable or something. A lot of people already eat very few vegetables in my opinion, but OP really goes beyond that in this case. Bland, tasteless, and not even healthy

I'm cutting as well, and this plate is scarily similar to where I've landed for my meal prep. Pretty much chicken and rice, but I at least do a rub or marinade.

Ed needs to suck it up for the sake of all that is Mexican.

The dual-use of the English “spice” (ground minerals used to improve flavor) and “spice” (substances that cause food to taste hot and intense) leads to many unfortunate losses of potential flavor.

A whole chicken breast during a famine? That sounds luxurious. I was under the impression that animal protein was incredibly rare.

Which came first, the eating disorder or the depression?

My depression is the opposite, cooking and baking fatty foods and eating it all

That meal isn’t improving anyone’s life.

No?

They're not trying to take the pleasure out of eating, they're trying to get as massive as they possibly can. Which, yes, does take the pleasure out of eating. However, their mindset is almost certainly "I have eaten this exact meal 647 times in the past year, I must get bigger, I must get bigger, I must get bigger."