'Why are you always dieting 'tomorrow'?' Test your appetite brainwaves and hidden gluttony index

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'Why are you always dieting 'tomorrow'?' Test your appetite brainwaves and hidden gluttony index

Everyone has a pair of pants in their closet that they can 'wear when they lose weight', but they usually just get tighter. Whenever it's the dead of night, or you're under immense pressure, your determination to control your diet can never beat the smell of fried chicken. Do you really want to lose weight, or is dieting just a 'slogan' for you? How low is your resistance when facing food temptations? Through these 10 super realistic scenarios, test the cruel truth of why you are always dieting 'tomorrow'!

10 questions · ~3 min

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  1. Q1. You just finished a healthy salad dinner, declaring the start of your diet plan. However, two hours later, your roommate brings back a super fragrant bag of fried chicken. What is your reaction?
    • A thousand struggling thoughts flash in your mind instantly, finally saying: 'I'll just have one piece... really just one!' (Then eat half the bag).
    • Looking at the fried chicken, thinking 'Anyway this place is famous, it's a pity not to eat it, I'll diet tomorrow!'
    • Extremely angry, feeling the roommate is doing this on purpose, angrily lock the door, but starving and can't sleep in the room.
    • Immediately take out phone to check the calories of fried chicken, calculate how many kilometers to run tomorrow to offset it, feel it's too tiring after calculating and give up.
  2. Q2. Which of the following scenarios is most likely to make your dieting line of reason snap?
    • Work didn't go well today, got severely scolded by the boss, feeling exhausted internally.
    • Scrolling phone and seeing favorite YouTuber introducing a newly opened 'bursting cheese burger'.
    • Awake alone in the middle of the night, the whole world is asleep, feeling absolutely no one will notice if I eat a bowl of instant noodles right now.
    • Colleagues enthusiastically organizing a group order for afternoon tea, and it happens to be your favorite bubble tea.
  3. Q3. When you step on the scale and find you've gained two kilograms again, what is your first thought?
    • 'This scale must be broken, or I wore too many clothes and drank too much water today!' (Refusing to face reality)
    • Instantly fall into severe self-loathing, swearing to only drink water from today on, but breaking it at night because of being too hungry.
    • 'Oh well, it's just two kilograms, let's have a good meal to calm down first!'
    • Immediately start taking inventory of what snacks are left at home, worrying that if I really start dieting, those snacks will be wasted.
  4. Q4. Which 'dieting excuse' do you use on yourself the most?
    • 'This meal is an exception, I will definitely start strictly controlling tomorrow!'
    • 'I walked to the MRT/climbed three flights of stairs today, so I can drink a slightly sweetened beverage.'
    • 'I already bought the stuff, it's wasteful not to finish it, wasting food goes to hell.'
    • 'I'm too pitiful, if I don't even have this little happiness, what's the point of living?'
  5. Q5. If you go to a buffet restaurant, what is your strategy?
    • What diet? Of course, first frantically grab a round of the most expensive seafood and meat, only worth it if eaten to death!
    • First take a large plate of salad pretending to be healthy, then silently walk towards the dessert and fried food area for the second plate.
    • Seeing someone take something that looks delicious, brainwaves weaken and follow to queue, ending up with a bunch of food can't finish at all.
    • With the mindset of 'I broke the rule today, might as well destroy it', eat high-calorie foods usually absolutely wouldn't touch.
  6. Q6. When you see others' before-and-after photos of successful weight loss, what is your reaction?
    • Thinking sourly inside: 'She just has a small frame / it's all photoshopped / this must be very unhealthy.'
    • Immediately motivated, instantly set that photo as phone wallpaper, then break the rule and eat late-night snack that very night.
    • Looking at the photo, then looking at the bubble tea in your hand, sighing, and continuing to drink.
    • Send the photo to a friend saying: 'Hey shouldn't we diet?' Then five minutes later ask them out for BBQ.
  7. Q7. What is the current state of your fridge or snack cabinet?
    • Always stuffed full, because if I don't hoard some food, I will feel very insecure.
    • Bought a bunch of oats, chicken breast, and unsweetened soy milk, but what I take out to eat most is still the potato chips hidden deepest.
    • Completely empty. Because I don't buy groceries at all, whatever I want to eat I just order delivery directly as it's the fastest!
    • Has many snacks bought because 'packaging is cute' or 'popular online', took one bite feeling it tasted bad and just left it there.
  8. Q8. In summary, what do you think dieting really is to you?
    • 'A war that can never be won, because the enemy (good food) is simply too strong.'
    • 'A torture to one's own body and mind, going against human's biological instinct to pursue happiness.'
    • 'A Schrödinger's state, as long as I don't step on the scale, I haven't gotten fat.'
    • 'A boring social framework, why can't I just be a normal person who eats happily?'
  9. Q9. If during your diet period, someone gifts you a box of limited-edition handmade cookies you've been dreaming of, what would you do?
    • Immediately open and eat one piece, then share the rest with colleagues, transferring calories to others.
    • Hide it deepest in the cabinet first, telling myself 'I can eat it when I lose three kilograms', then can't help but peek at it every night.
    • Feel this is totally God testing me! The more I try to restrain, the more I want to eat, ending up eating the whole box in one night.
    • This is arranged by fate, let's talk about dieting next week, eat!
  10. Q10. When do you think is your moment of strongest appetite and weakest brainwaves?
    • Whenever it's late at night, sitting alone on the sofa scrolling phone.
    • After work feeling 'today was really terrible', urgently needing something to comfort the soul.
    • The moment someone says to me 'Did you get fat, you should diet'.
    • Anytime, anywhere! As long as food appears in my line of sight, I will feel hungry.
All Result Types

The Doomsday Hoarding Hallucinatory Starver

Your problem is not having a big appetite, but having a strong 'food panic.' You always worry about being hungry in the middle of the night with nothing to eat, so your room and office desk drawers are always stuffed with various snacks. When you see food, your brain sounds a doomsday alarm: 'If I don't eat it now, it will be gone later.' Your gluttony stems from a deep sense of scarcity; you must ensure you have a calorie source anytime, anywhere to feel safe.

Feels extremely anxious seeing an empty fridgeWill definitely buy twice as much food as planned at the supermarketOften eats expired snacks just because 'feeling wasteful'

💡 Even if you just finished a hearty buffet, walking on the street seeing a red bean cake stall, you'll still buy three to put in your bag for 'backup'.

The Placebo Eater of Emotional Blackmail

Your appetite is entirely tied to your 'emotional state.' When you feel wronged, exhausted, or scolded by your boss, food is your only friend that won't betray you. You treat eating as a 'compensation mechanism,' always having a voice in your head saying: 'I worked so hard today, it's not too much to treat myself to something good, right?' Your diet plans always lose to the small setbacks in life, because to you, dieting equals a double deprivation of the only comfort left in your life.

The greater the stress, the larger the appetiteUsed to comforting oneself with sweets or high-calorie foodFalls into deep guilt after eating, forming a vicious cycle

💡 If you argue with your partner today, you don't want to communicate, you just want to immediately eat a six-inch chocolate cake.

The Weak-Brainwave Trend-Following Foodie

You're not actually that hungry, you just have 'very weak brainwaves.' Your diet plans are usually destroyed by social media or algorithms. As long as you see an influencer checking in at a newly opened dessert shop on IG, or YouTube recommends a super tempting fried chicken mukbang, your line of reason instantly snaps. You have zero resistance to keywords like 'limited time', 'queueing famous store', or 'new arrival'. You're not eating calories, but the FOMO of missing out on food trends.

Easily tempted by photos or videos of foodCannot resist the temptation of 'buy one get one free'Prefers the ritual of checking in more than the food itself

💡 You clearly decided to eat salad tonight, but scrolled past a video of someone sharing cheesy stringy pizza, and five minutes later you ordered delivery.

The Rebellious Binge-Eating System Destroyer

The reason your diet plan fails is because you extremely hate 'being restricted' in your bones. When you tell yourself 'I absolutely cannot eat carbs', your brain automatically generates a strong rebellious psychology: 'Why can't I eat? I will eat it!' Your appetite is like a compressed spring, the lower you press it, the higher it bounces back. You don't really want to eat, you are just rebelling against the 'diet rules' that try to deprive you of your freedom.

The more prohibited something is, the more frantically desiredOften engages in revenge binge eating late at nightHas zero patience for 'strict menus'

💡 If you decide to do 168 fasting, you will definitely break it at the 15th hour and 50th minute out of sheer anger and go cook instant noodles.

The Schrödinger's Dieting with Precise Calculation

You are a rational person, even dieting requires logic and science for you. You will download various calorie counting APPs, precisely calculating the protein and fat ratio of every meal. But the problem is, you are too smart, you can always find 'loopholes in the system.' For example: 'I didn't eat breakfast today, so I can eat two pieces of fried chicken tonight', 'This milk tea has a lot of ice, so the calories should be halved.' Your dieting is in a quantum superposition state between dieting and not dieting.

Proficient in various diet theories, but never successfully practicedExtremely good at self-hypnosis and the metaphysics of calorie offsettingMust check calories before eating, then selectively ignore them

💡 You firmly believe 'as long as I eat fast enough, calories can't catch up to me', and think eating while standing has lower calories.

The Midnight Foodie Tasting in Solitude

Your self-control during the day is extremely strong; you can perfectly execute the diet menu of salad and black coffee. However, your willpower completely collapses late at night. For you, late night is an absolutely private space-time where no one will judge you. Eating late-night snacks at this time is an ultimate solitary enjoyment. You don't eat to relieve hunger, you eat to enjoy that mysterious ritualistic feeling of 'the whole world is asleep, only I am degenerating.'

Diet saint by day, foodie demon by nightEnjoys the tranquility of eating aloneNever lets others see oneself binge eating

💡 When you eat instant noodles in the middle of the night, you even deliberately slurp the soup very softly, as if conducting a secret cult ritual.

The Unapologetic Conscious Quitter

You have long seen through the game of dieting and calmly chosen to 'forfeit'. You won't have guilt, nor will you set fake goals for yourself anymore. You know your bottom line very well is 'impossible not to eat good food'. When others are still struggling between calories and appetite, you have happily bitten into your second piece of fried chicken. You feel that instead of being anxious about weight every day, it's better to happily be a confident chubby person.

Has already deleted the word 'diet' from the dictionaryMind is still as water regarding the number on the scaleThe most frequently said phrase is 'It's okay, as long as we're happy'

💡 When friends complain about getting fat, you don't comfort them, you just directly hand over the menu and say: 'Stop thinking, just order this signature fried pork cutlet first.'

The Carb Believer Putting Happiness First

The reason for your diet failure is simple: you love life too much! For you, carbohydrates and sugar are the fountain of happiness. You can't understand people who eat boiled meals every day to maintain their figure. You think 'life is short, why make it hard on your stomach?' Although you occasionally feel a tiny bit guilty about the number on the scale, as soon as a friend says 'let's go eat hotpot', your guilt instantly vanishes. Your motto is: you have to be full to have the energy to diet.

Extremely easy to be dragged to eat by othersThinks good food is the only cure for stressOften swears to fast tomorrow after a big meal (and fails)

💡 When ordering a drink, you'll order 'no sugar' to diet, but at the same time, you order extra boba and pudding.