Senath
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I absolutely hate sweetened drinks. I abhor sugary sodas and juices. They are sickening and the sugar coats my teeth and I get an insulin spike and I feel terrible. I also dislike processed foods and I can feel a big difference between eating them on a regular basis and eating more "whole" foods. Overly processed foods just make me feel miserable. I'm very sensitive to how they affect my body so it makes it worse (or is it better, because I eat fewer unhealthy foods?).
I am aware that most food is "processed" to some extent (flours and breads, nut butters, orange juice, dairy, canned foods like tuna and beans...), it's the food that is absurdly saturated with simple sugars and sodium and man-made preservatives that annoys me to no end. It's almost impossible to purchase unsweetened cranberries or cranberry juice, which saddens me because I love that taste. |
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Senath
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 3:04 pm Post subject: Re: RANT: I HATE processed food! |
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| pezar wrote: | I'm trying to lose weight (aren't we all) and I was shopping at Walmart, and I happened to find myself in the frozen food section looking at pizzas. I thought, what the hell, just ONE microwave pizza wouldn't hurt. So I buy it and take it home. That was a week ago. On Saturday, I nuke the pizza and eat it. Within a couple hours, I felt SICK! I ran out to the store and loaded up on chocolate to balance out all the crap in the pizza. After eating all that chocolate, I felt WORSE! I finally took a shot of lemon juice and after a couple days I felt a little better, but I was so bloated that my weight went up seven lbs! It's floating back down a little at a time.
Why do food makers have to put so much garbage in their stuff, like tons of salt and high fructose corn syrup (ick) and then there's the meat with "pink slime" in it and the mechanically separated chicken that you really don't want to dwell on for too long. If I had my own land I would raise my own food, but I live with my parents and can't raise food animals, and my mom can't bear the thought of killing anything not even a chicken. So it's off to Walmart I go. No wonder everybody is so fat. It really sucks. I hate the food makers. Really really hate them.
(Mods, keep this in The Haven, my intent was to express a personal gripe, not to seek health advice.) |
I somehow missed reading the second paragraph... It's been my dream since I was a kid to buy my own plot of about 10 acres or so and grow/raise my own food and reside in relatively peaceful solitude. Hopefully it will be a reality one day.
And I know you're not seeking health advice, but I find that concentrating on making sure I get an adequate source of minimally-processed protein from foods other than from meat helps me out a lot when maintaining and losing weight. Otherwise I personally tend to want to eat a lot of carbohydrates, complex or otherwise. |
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pezar
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Joined: Apr 06, 2008
Age: 38
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: RANT: I HATE processed food! |
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| Senath wrote: | | pezar wrote: | I'm trying to lose weight (aren't we all) and I was shopping at Walmart, and I happened to find myself in the frozen food section looking at pizzas. I thought, what the hell, just ONE microwave pizza wouldn't hurt. So I buy it and take it home. That was a week ago. On Saturday, I nuke the pizza and eat it. Within a couple hours, I felt SICK! I ran out to the store and loaded up on chocolate to balance out all the crap in the pizza. After eating all that chocolate, I felt WORSE! I finally took a shot of lemon juice and after a couple days I felt a little better, but I was so bloated that my weight went up seven lbs! It's floating back down a little at a time.
Why do food makers have to put so much garbage in their stuff, like tons of salt and high fructose corn syrup (ick) and then there's the meat with "pink slime" in it and the mechanically separated chicken that you really don't want to dwell on for too long. If I had my own land I would raise my own food, but I live with my parents and can't raise food animals, and my mom can't bear the thought of killing anything not even a chicken. So it's off to Walmart I go. No wonder everybody is so fat. It really sucks. I hate the food makers. Really really hate them.
(Mods, keep this in The Haven, my intent was to express a personal gripe, not to seek health advice.) |
I somehow missed reading the second paragraph... It's been my dream since I was a kid to buy my own plot of about 10 acres or so and grow/raise my own food and reside in relatively peaceful solitude. Hopefully it will be a reality one day.
And I know you're not seeking health advice, but I find that concentrating on making sure I get an adequate source of minimally-processed protein from foods other than from meat helps me out a lot when maintaining and losing weight. Otherwise I personally tend to want to eat a lot of carbohydrates, complex or otherwise. |
Sorry I didn't respond right away, but yeah, my grandfather was a "homesteader" type in the 50s when his generation were flocking to the suburbs, and he bucked that and fixed cars and grew food, and I saw him and wanted to be a simple man like him. My mom became a government employee, and I grew up in a wealthy area surrounded by rich kids, and even in HS I knew there was something wrong with such overt materialism. I moved to the city and saw how poor people lived, and I knew I couldn't be rich and materialistic like my classmates and parents.
Then I moved in with my grandfather when he started to decline, and learned to see things the way they were during the First Depression, and he said that a time would come when people would tear down the suburbs to get at the land for farming, and that there would be another depression. I listened. I try to eat food that's as pure as I can get, I eat minimally processed meats (I'm a big meat eater) and rice for carbs since I can't handle wheat. I still am trying to work out how to afford land, I may have to go to Oregon. (I live in California.) |
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