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If you’re hungry but questioning how “healthy” a food or meal is—but the alternative is that you don’t eat at all—that food or meal is healthy by default. Eat!
(former nutritionist who often has to say this to myself too, as chronic illness increases the risk of disordered eating and just being hella stressed doesn’t help either)
Mar 19, 2024
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I'm specifically thinking about times when I can't muster the energy to assemble a full meal, and I say to myself "something is better than nothing" and make myself a pbj on toasted sourdough and vow to eat a green vegetable and hearty protein next time. A small way to be kind to myself when the negative self talk gets a little too loud.
Sep 18, 2024
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(warning: serious post)
Even if it’s hard. Body image stuff always creeps back in as the weather warms up and clothes shrink, and I was sitting here letting myself feel hungry. But I checked Instagram and a long time online friend is most likely dying soon from anorexia and I’m feeling a lot of emotions about it. Getting up to go find something solid and filling to eat in her honor and I hope you do the same. It’s rough out here, especially when stuff is really deep-rooted but I will always rec eating over not, even if I momentarily forget what a good rec that is 💛
May 29, 2025
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This is going to be a long one, so if you don't want to read the whole thing, basically this is just why I will never, ever, eat brown rice sushi.
I love PB&Js, and one of the ways I make myself feel better about that is by making a "healthy" version. I don't add any new steps or ingredients – I just use whole wheat bread, organic peanut butter, and jelly with no added sugar. And it tastes wonderful. Sure, it's more expensive than a regular kid-friendly PB&J, but no more expensive than a lot of other healthy dishes. My point is, I get why people want to make healthier versions of their favourite foods. But some things just aren't meant to be healthy.
Take ramen, for instance. Instant ramen is a true indulgence, a beast of convenience and modernity, so detached from anything resembling cuisine, but it tastes so fucking good, and isn't the artificiality of it part of the charm? Restaurant ramen, on the other hand, is a delicacy, probably made by someone who has been doing it their entire life. If you get it at the right place, at least. And then, for some reason, I see people making "healthy" homemade ramen. What are you accomplishing with that? You're not going to get the richness or luxuriousness you could get at a restaurant, or the pure, uncut satiation of the instant stuff. It's the worst of both worlds. You're spending tons of time and money on a simulacrum. What a waste.
So, if you feel tempted to follow some recipe you found online for healthy fish and chips, ask yourself if it's really worth it. With the time, money, and energy you spend on it, why not try making a new recipe? Chances are, you could make something just as healthy with the same or similar ingredients, that isn't just a bastardization. Think of all the amazing healthy dishes you never learned to make, never tried, because the prospect of healthy fish and chips was so enticing. It sounded too good to be true, and it was, and now you're probably one step closer to giving up on health food forever.
This is getting far too long so I'll leave you with a paraphrase of Hank Hill. "You're not making healthy eating better; you're just making your favourite food worse."
Nov 16, 2024
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bc it’s what I originally wanted when I first went to college at 17 but I was scared to make writing my job and got a B.S. in Nutrition instead lol
Now the goal is an eventual PhD in Victorian Literature but I’m just happy to have made it through this part at 32!
Stacked is everything I read in my English courses—barely pictured are the 5 stuffed accordion folders of other reading materials under my chair haha
May 16, 2024
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the only place i win the social interaction
Aug 21, 2024
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conflusional. delonfident, even
Oct 1, 2024