Swedneck

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

there's no reason you have to skip making the food taste good just because you're eating a lot, if you're eating more then you're gonna need more salt, and other spices aren't something you can have too much of unless you're snorting nutmeg..

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

1 piece of gum every time we meet

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i'm very confused as to what point you're making here, first you seem to say you want to eat less and then you seem to say you wanted to eat way way more than a normal portion?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

but like, every day can be cheat day if you just make healthy food that tastes good..

and not only is that obviously more enjoyable, but it means there's 0 temptation to slip back into bad habits because the good habits are self-reinforcing, half the reason i enjoy exercise is because i know it means i can eat more delicious food.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

the difference there is that you think it tastes good, if it just keeps tasting good every time you eat it then yeah why stop?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's so insane to me because i've trained myself to be quite in tune with my body's needs.
Turns out animals are evolved to seek out the food they need to function and thus we have the ability to actually enjoy healthy food and even get cravings for things with the specific nutrients we need at that point in time.
Thinking that food shouldn't be pleasurable is like thinking that a well-functioning diesel engine should be making horrid grinding noises and intermittently release smoke from the gaskets..

If you just stop eating so much sugar and as much as possible try to cook things from scratch, or at least eat things where you know precisely what ingredients are in it and how it would have been prepared, you should be able to regain the proper feedback from your gut and have a very healthy relationship to food.

I'd also recommend as often as possible trying to wait to eat until you're really hungry so you can calibrate your sense of hunger (but like, be smart about it, make sure to eat something if you're gonna do stuff that needs calories and stable blood sugar levels), and try to taste everything once so your body can associate that thing with the nutrients in it.
Also also try to sneak in vegetables into every meal in some way, even if it's just adding 2 peas or whatever. That'll psychologically and physically normalize it, so you start wanting it more. Your gut flora is a pretty significant part of what decides your cravings and if you consistently eat something the gut flora will change to things that like digesting those things and thus make you crave them more.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

it genuinely pisses me the fuck off that producers aren't just putting fibre into everything they can, just use the leftover chaff from making white flour!

Fibre is the closest thing i know to a magic cure-all supplement, eat more fibre and basically all the little discomforts related to digestion just fucking disappear and you feel generally better and healthier.
But like it's really annoying to actually get extra fibre without fairly significant changes to your diet or spending extra on fibre-enriched pasta that's engineered to be basically identical to normal pasta, and yet there are plenty of products that seem like adding fibre would make no change at all to the texture, like just put some grain chaff powder in muffins!!!!

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

less comfortable for the cow, much much much more comfortable for me

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

no such thing as embarrassing when dealing with medical problems, they've seen and heard everything and medical staff that at all makes you feel bad are incompetent and should get another job.

Any good medical worker is there to make you feel better, and will actively appreciate blunt honesty because it makes everything so much easier and treatments more effective.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

oh so you just want to be annoyingly pedantic, cool

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

you should worry more about whether the rice itself will kill you, rice can have quite worrying levels of arsenic depending on where it's grown.

but in general just, like, think about what you're buying? if you live in europe then maybe go with pasta or potato as your main starch rather than something grown halfway across the world.

I'm always annoyed when people go "oh but rice and beans is the cheapest food possible!" bitch rice is more expensive than pasta and beans are only barely cheaper than ground pork (the cheapest meat) here in sweden. The actual cheapest food here is onion stew with potatoes and peas, and as a bonus all 3 of those are grown domestic.

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