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Sister Machine Gun of Contemplative Meditation ([personal profile] niqaeli) wrote in [personal profile] commodorified 2011-12-16 09:58 am (UTC)

Would a post talking about learning to navigate a food restriction without losing your mind be appropriate or not? I'm not interested in telling anyone how to eat, nor in weight-loss or anything like that. I've just, for reasons that have to do with not enjoying feeling like I've been run over by a steamroller, had to limit my sugar and even complex carbohydrates some. This process has been a fun and exciting trip through everyone else's food neuroses. ...it may be worth noting at this point that if there is just ONE thing I could get through everyone's head re: food, it's that there is no such thing as any universal truths about food because human physiology is so complex. What may as well be poison for one person can be absolutely vital for another and can we stop trying to pretend that there are any constants and also stop trying to police other people's food because aside from it being morally and ethically dubious-at-best also it isn't practical.

Alternatively, I'd be happy to focus solely on the part of that post that would be about nutritional labels and learning to scan them quickly for the information that matters to you. I use nutritional labels heavily for figuring out if something is sufficient/appropriate for me. (This is in part because I eat a lot of pre-prep food because I rarely have the time/energy to deal with anything more complicated and I'm fortunate to live somewhere I have high-quality, reasonably priced options. But making sure it's going to be a sufficient meal for me before I buy said is important -- and not everything or, often, much of anything available qualifies.)

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