02 Mar 2014, 8:33 pm
02 Mar 2014, 8:45 pm
02 Mar 2014, 10:01 pm
All those items sound expensive. 
I'm able to get a good boost just by eating well. That means very little soda, very few prepacked and prepared meals, and more nutritious items. I also have a few bands that always boost my mood.
Because 'healthy' food is generally low calorie. We're genetically programmed to like high calorie foods because that has an evolutionary advantage, it's only in the context of the over abundance of modern society that this instinct became a liking for the 'unhealthy'. I see that as a good analogy for neurodiversity.
Not only is junk food generally high calorie, but it's engineered to appeal to our instinctual predilection for high calorie foods. What you get is a release of enkephalin and endorphin that rewards you for behaviour that in the past would have enhanced your chances of survival when the inevitable famine came (which is why we store fat).
it is possible to rework this, unhealthy stuff actually not only sickens me to eat, just the smell bothers me
and eating right can fill you just remember you need a larger salad than you need a burger
I've had a better time focusing on nutrition and cutting out useless junk than calorie content, though I'm not sure that's all this is about. A salad is low-calorie and good when you're watching your weight, but lettuce is only somewhat nutritious and the most common kind in salads (iceberg) has very little. At its simplest, the ground beef in a hamburger is perfectly healthy. Just not when it's fatty meat slathered in condiments paired with french fries and a soda eaten every day. They're both good... in the right context.
On a slightly different note, all around me I see women worried about calories tormenting themselves with strange diets and restrictions. There's even the myth that healthy food tastes bad, is expensive (relative to Cup Ramen, everything is expensive), or isn't filling. I've paid no attention to calories at all for the past several months and am having trouble fitting into my old jeans. I cook at home as much as possible with a lot of chicken, fish, vegetables, and legumes, using as little added oils and fats as possible, and cut out soda.
I know other people who've lost a lot of weight by cutting out the bad (like soda) rather than dieting. I've tried to make food shame-free, even cupcakes and chips, because it depresses me to see people tormenting themselves over something so basic, bonding, and enjoyable as food. I figure that if it's the weight I'm at while not feeding myself junk all the time, it's a perfectly fine weight to be at.
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02 Mar 2014, 10:42 pm
Food, fishing (the part where you are actually catching fish anyways), driving a car (manual), riding a dirtbike, or a wheeler on logging trails. Shooting guns. Like clay pigeons and stuff.
As far as vitamins go, I drink coffee (don't argue with me, it's a vitamin) 
, eat fish, canned tuna, sushi, or whatever, and an orange monster. There are a ton of vitamins in that. Just dont put it in a glass, you might get grossed out from all the floaty stuff in it.
02 Mar 2014, 11:57 pm
