Then I went back full time to the office in late 2021 and gained all of it back. Only difference is I started eating office food again - office food that is specifically supposed to be “healthy”. I even walked and biked a lot more thanks to the commute.
The home food was not made with any particular effort to be above and beyond healthy or low calorie either.
My job pays me well enough to bite the bullet and endure the senseless commute. But not well enough to move closer to the office and trade my nice suburban apartment for a (older, rattier, with less amenities) shoebox half the size for more the cost.
Unless you were cooking roast turkeys for lunch.
What about the time it took you to read HN, or even type that message? No judgement but there is always time in the day to make food.
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After a tired long day at work, followed by a soul draining commute on public transportation, I'm simply too - yes, lazy - and tired to do anything productive, even for just a few minutes even though I know objectively it's not that much effort.
I'm sure many people know this feeling.