Help understanding gluttony

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After I work out I like to have a protein shake.

The one I have has about 831 calories and leaves me feeling very full.

It seems kind of excessive but I need to put on weight.

Is this gluttony?
 
Nope. Gluttony would be more like skipping the workout and having 10 pieces of chocolate pie. 😋

Depending on what workout you just did, you might be barely replacing the calories you just burned.

My nephew is walking the Appalachian trail. He posts what he eats when he gets in town, which taken out of context is about as glutinous as you can get. However, to date he has already lost 60 pounds (which he could afford to lose) from the hike. So taken in context he isn’t even eating enough to maintain his weight.

Keep working out and keep drinking those shakes,

God Bless
 
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Walking - the Appalachian Trail - wow - sounds intense.
I’ve heard about that…as a bucket list thing to do.
I’ve actually been to Kentucky - with CAP
I think it stood for Catholic Appalachian Project -
Help build houses, visit people, etc volunteer thing.
It was just okay.
Didn’t run into any moonshiners - lol
 
The general rule any time you are eatng is, as soon as your brain starts thinking about how your stomach feels bloated or tight, you have had enough. If you go beyond that it becomes gluttony.

If looking to gain weight, maybe have more frequent meals without breaking the above rule.
 
I thought gluttony was when one ate for the pleasure of it as opposed to nutritional value.

From the way the OP phrases it, it sounds like he’s doing it primarily for the nutritional value, which is fine.
 
Yes, pleasure is probably always the motive behind gluttony. Having had those protein shakes myself I can say there is also some pleasure in drinking them. However, I couldn’t see over-stuffing my stomach with one using the excuse of nutrition, as if overfilling on one would be any more nutritional then stopping when my stomach was full. Just my opinion.
 
I mean yeah I try to make it taste as good as possible which is difficult, but I’m just trying to get enough protein to get bigger.
 
Feeling full does not make eating anything further glutenous (in the case of a person who needs to put on weight), just like pain does not make an injection self-harm. They are both our body’s natural reaction, and it would ordinarily be sinful to continue to go against said reactions, but it is not, because we understand how the body works, and we are not doing these things merely to satisfy the appetitive power.

In fact, if a person has been eating too little for a long time, it is actually not only not sinful, but also necessary for them to eat beyond the point of feeling full—perhaps even to the point of feeling stuffed—in order to stretch the stomach back to a proper size.
 
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G2024 said:
After I work out I like to have a protein shake.

The one I have has about 831 calories and leaves me feeling very full.

It seems kind of excessive but I need to put on weight.

Is this gluttony?
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Post-workout protein shakes. The devil’s favorite beverage.
 
If you only need 831 calories, soldier, what kind of workout is that? Drop and give the Old Colonel 25 for country, 25 for freedom and 25 for the Corps! Hoorah!

Semper Fi! Carry on!
 
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