If you post about how much weight you're losing or how you're dieting, I'm not following you.
#DietCulture is toxic, harmful nonsense and i reject it. For my health and mood both.
What we weigh is not what we're worth. Fat is not a failing. Thin is not morally superior or automatically healthier.
So many people around you have or have experienced disordered eating. You're not helping.
Also please listen to Maintenance Phase.
#eatingDisorders #weightloss #dietsDontWork #health #dieting
@noodlemaz I've posted about how much weight I've lost and about my diet. But they're essentially two different things...
I (mainly) stopped drinking alcohol just over two years ago and lost about 25kg (going from prediabetic to normal within weeks).
I chat about food occasionally because I'm now looking at healthy food that has a lower ecological footprint and that helps stimulate my microbiome, with a reduced glycaemic index (without going mad about it) etc.
It must be hard for a lot of people as the food industry has normalised ultra-processed foods over the last few decades, and there's a lot of people that need to move away from it. I think that's way more useful a pathway than dieting in the calorie-restriction sense.
Anyway, I hope this more or less aligns with how you feel 🙏
@davep I don't buy into the demon-du-jour of UPF. It's not well-defined, it's just wellness industry scaremongering as usual. And a useful way for diet pushers to repackage the oldest grifts.
Stopping drinking is great! Massive boost for your health. Way more than avoiding some crisps and ready meals. Glad you've felt good in yourself for doing it.
And environmental concerns are important. I stopped eating land/factory-farmed meat mainly for that reason and the cruelty.
Chat away...
@noodlemaz Yeah, UPFs is shorthand for a lot of stuff, we all navigate this in our own way. I'm no fan of the wellness grifters either.
I'm mainly trying to get to grips with cooking every day as my wife has mostly been bed-bound recently due to worsening spondylopathy. So I've had to "man up" and find some interesting batch recipes that fit my current vision ecologically and nutritionally, and especially that my Italian wife (with rather demanding tastes) actually enjoys!
Oh, and the occasional ready meal. I'm not a saint 😁
@davep I'm sorry to hear that, I hope she's not in too much pain.
Cooking is fun, I think! Never too late to start. Italian though, oof, yeah. Tricky. I doubt she'd appreciate our bastardised pizzas much..! But I do make pasta sauce *almost* from scratch (usually canned tomatoes because cheaper, easier, store longer) and hope to start making pasta soon instead of just buying it.
There's something therapeutic about chopping stuff. If I'm alone I like that time for singing practice, too.
@noodlemaz
I've found a good half and half Bolognese sauce recipe using minced beef and lentils as the main ingredients. It's one of my go-to batch recipes. And she likes it!
I occasionally sing while chopping veg too, it is weirdly zen (as a latecomer to all this, it took a while to get over the "it's a chore" hurdle).
@davep lentil bolognese is great. For protein I like Quorn mince, beyond is good if you have vegan friends (Quorn uses egg, unless you get the vegan one which is pricier)
Meat people can never tell the difference. Secret is lots of tomato puree and some olive oil.
And yeah, when it feels chore-y that is a good time for a favourite take-away/takeout or premade thing! Don't have to do it every day. My mum did, which is why I'd never have got together with someone who didn't cook. Am not a maid!
@noodlemaz My wife is traditionally Italian. She was up front about me being the breadwinner and her looking after the house. I also had to pretend to be a bit macho for a while too, which was funny/weird.
No Quorn here in France I don't think. I've recently bought a job lot of split peas and have yet to find a suitable recipe that isn't soup 🤔
@noodlemaz I've got a lentil Dahl as my other main staple, it's lush!
Had to spend about €80 on spices though, but they last a long time. I'm onto the second bag of a couple of them already.
@noodlemaz Here it is https://veggiedesserts.com/wprm_print/the-best-red-lentil-dahl
I use cream rather than coconut milk though. And organic vegetable stock cubes (after wasting hours making my own stock from scratch once).
Noodlemaz
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