#but he was playing this game of having to be perfectly in a perfect intake-outtake balance

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I forget Ray is really into nutrition in a jock body builder way until you get to the section in your physiology class about how energy is consumed, burned, and stored and remember you've heard most of this through him

He's the guy who would time his pre-work out snacks and then insist on eating right after to increase glucose levels to increase muscle synthesis and on and on and on and on.

We know this because he was co-host for a couple months of COVID and he was the one that got us back on being fitness buffs after an era of being a survivalist couch potato.

And before anyone says this, yes it was also the time period where our relationship with food was the closest to a strange eating disorder. Just because it's men thinking about mUScLe and not being ""thin"" doesn't make it any less disordered. Serious body builder culture is unhealthy and dog shit, which is why we tend to favor XIV's jockiness.

I'm just writing notes on this and finding the "files in our brain" about this that he has and I'm just... excuse me sir, we are nerds in this house sir, why are you doing this in the most toxic masculine way.

-Lucille