rule ( lemmy.cafe )

as much of a PSA as this is a meme lol. don’t seek dietary advice from randos on the internet. everyone is different and the advice you see from @bonerfart on !memes can be dangerous and should be taken with a grain of salt (metaphorically, not a dietary recommendation 😜). instead consider one or both of:

a) going to a health professional
b) seeking out and joining a trustworthy community (online or irl) who back themselves with medical research

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
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This is a side note, but I've never understood the concept of changing one's diet or consulting a professional before doing so. Other than trying to eat my vegetables and avoiding gluten and dairy (because I have celiac and lactose intolerance), my diet is wildly inconsistent. Do most people generally eat the same things all the time?

general_kitten ,

I'd say many people have a basic rotation of like 10-20 dishes that makes up most of their diet

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
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Oh yeah I guess that might describe me. 20 seems about right. I try to always switch it up though because I've heard it's good to have a varied diet.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
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Do most people generally eat the same things all the time?

Yeah. IMO variety is expensive because it's usually cheaper to buy a few things in bulk.

consulting a professional before doing so.

I consulted a nutritionist before doing my first weight loss [1] because I wanted to make sure my diet was nutritionally sound. Surprisingly, it was fine, just too much of everything. Very surprising considering that I'm a picky eater with texture issues, but I'll take it.

In contrast, my sister had to see a nutritionist to go on hormones and apparently her diet was nutritionally whack, so she had to make a bunch of changes.

vegetables

Please God no (at least not raw)

[1] I put it back on when I went to engineering school, but I managed to keep it off for a couple years. Oh well. I'll get around to losing it again soon.

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Yeah weight is hard. I managed to lose a lot, but it's a daily struggle. It's hard to find self acceptance and love yourself where you're at when your body feels so wrong. I don't judge anyone by their weight, but it's sure hard to direct that same acceptance toward myself. Sounds like you're doing well, though.

I'm lucky that I like almost anything, so that makes me eat a lot of different things. I buy cheap stuff in bulk, but it's not often the same things. Fresh foods are hard because they expire, so I buy a lot of foods that have a long shelf life such as carrots and potatoes. And I make my own frozen meals to take to work, including cheap frozen veggies which are still nutritious.

My husband has ADHD, and I find that he often has to eat different foods than I do. If he's not craving something, he can't tolerate it. He struggles more than I do, even with my heavy restrictions on what I can eat.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
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I don't judge anyone by their weight, but it's sure hard to direct that same acceptance toward myself.

Yeah same here, but I'm at a weight where I'm exceeding weight limits of things like ladders, furniture, etc. And I'm in terrible physical shape on top of all that. It's really more of a "tactical" thing for me at this point. Just gotta get it done.

Sounds like you're doing well, though.

Thank you. Could be better, could be a lot worse. I'm still a social disaster.

And I make my own frozen meals

Me too. The other day I made like half my meals for the entire summer in one giant cook.

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You remind me a lot of a discord buddy I have. We always talk about it via DM because it's a sensitive subject for a lot of people and so easy to slip into disordered eating. It can feel like it takes so long to lose weight that you feel like it's never going to happen, but eventually you'll get there.

I always prepare my frozen meals on a weekly basis, most often on Sundays. Honestly I can often get everything I need for my meals at the dollar store.

VaultBoyNewVegas ,

Yup. I've ulcerative colitis and every fucking time I've mentioned it I inevitably get people trying to give me "advice" despite me making it clear that I don't want or need it. Fuck, I even had one asshole tell me not to fucking take medical advice and go on a medication which I have done and it's fucking got rid of my flare up that I've had since January.

I've had someone tell me that I shouldn't have dairy because their wife has UC and she can't have dairy, I have an IBD nurse that I can contact for advice and she has told me that dairy is potentially ok and I've been having dairy since I've been out of hospital for 3 weeks and it's done nothing to me. I've had people tell me to eat healthier yet when having a flare up I can't have fibre, onions, garlic, vegetables in general (unless they're mush like) anything with seeds in it, potato skins, red meat and food high in fat. basically I'm restricted to white meat, rice and potatoes (without skin so like mash) and white breads. The only people I listen to to deal with my chronic illness is my consultant and my nurse, everyone else can fuck off.

Sombyr ,
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I have a similar issue as somebody with a case of dysphagia worsened by certain foods, which happen to be 90% of what you're supposed to eat to be healthy (suspected to be a combination of eosinophilic esophagitis and another unknown condition.)
The amount of times on various social media platforms I've been told to "suck it up and just eat them anyway" as if my condition isn't real and that won't cause me to choke to death is absurd.

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