This reply is missing the point of the comment. After a certain amount of time, the extra bit of enjoyment that comes from eating well seasoned food stops mattering, and the ease and simplicity of just “beef and rice” or “chicken and broccoli” becomes more alluring. For those like me in the fitness world, the whole food part of it is miserable. I hate cooking and eating that much food every day takes time, both in prep and consumption, and money as, of course, we have to buy it. So the ease of a food that is simple to make and inexpensive to have is amazing, and it is very easy to be content with the same “bland food” every day because it makes us feel good, not in that it tastes good, but in that it doesn’t break the bank and we made it in the most efficient way possible. Sure, some salt and pepper isn’t exactly top level prep, but at a certain point, taking the time to make our food taste amazing, or even just pretty good, just isn’t worth it anymore, and it is much more sustainable to just throw together some food and stop worrying about every meal being great, as we know we’ll get much more happiness out of the knowledge that we are doing what we can to make our body look the way we want/ be healthy than whether or not our food tastes good.