#tw: calorie counting

[somekindof-strength]

Friday Calorie check in!

A little heavier today. My coworkers convinced me to go to lunch to the worst place in town. There’s literally one thing on the menu that doesn’t have meat and it’s a personal pizza. They don’t even have a cauliflower crust 😭

We went out for a movie and fortunately the place we go has a little restaurant next door that has these really good cauliflower bites that are only 360 calories.

So yeah. Over on calories and over on carbs. I blame the pizza.

[elleon-the-mediocre]

Trying to be more consistent about tracking my calories. Also trying to move my body more. I’m overweight (technically I think, obese) but I’m tired of it. No day but today, honestly.

[ms-demeanor]

Okay THANK YOU for saying “your body craves what it needs” is bs because that felt like bs this whole time.

Like you don’t need more sugar if you crave sweets that is NOT what that means. Sugar is a food that people crave because it tastes good/sugar I think is an addictive food??

Idk it just felt like people making excuses when they’re supposed to be trying to eat a little healthier (healthier, not low cal, not low fat or keto or whatever. Diets are bs but craving sweets does not mean sugar is healthy thing for your body rn)

People crave sugar because it tastes good, which is not a bad thing, and there is an evolutionary reason that sugar and fat taste good to us. Carbs are your body's favorite thing because it is SUPER easy for your body to break them down into useful molecules.

I'm not a fan of the idea that any foods are addictive and I'm skeptical of models that suggest "refined food addiction" is a thing with a measurable, real-world impact; there's a lot of debate in that area of nutrition science and to me it kind of seems like the tools people use to track food addiction aren't really examining the addictiveness of specific foods, but are decent screening tools for people who have compulsive behaviors around food (for instance, one group of people who the Yale Food Addiction Scale has repeatedly been demonstrated to be REALLY good at identifying is people with anorexia).

But your body needs sugar all the time, whether that's in the form of complex carbohydrates that get broken down into simple sugars by your body, or simple sugars that you stir into your tea that then gets sent to your cells as energy. If your diet doesn't have enough sugar in it, your body has a processes to turn non-sugars into sugar so that it can use the sugar (gluconeogenesis!). Sugar is unambiguously good for you in the way that fat is unambiguously good for you. You need sugar to survive and it's not a bad thing if you want to have a cookie or a soda or some candy, and again - your craving probably isn't telling you that you're deficient in a specific micro or macronutrient, but I still think that you should listen to your craving.

Like, I don't know how much you know about psychotherapy but the attitude that a lot of diet-focused discussion takes toward cravings reminds me of cognitive behavioral therapy. "When you crave chocolate, no you don't! Don't think about the chocolate, you actually probably need starch or sugar or something, let's redirect that into having a banana, or some frozen berries, or some spinach. Point away from the unhealthy craving and into the healthy replacement, or, better yet, ignore the craving. Mind over matter. You choose how you act."

(I actually think "X craving means that I want Y food so I shall replace it with Z, which is similar" "craving salt means that I am dehydrated and need electrolytes so instead of potato chips I'll have some soup" is how this goes most of the time. I think this is a diet culture thing, not a food positivity thing.)

And you know what I think that's a garbage way to look at both food and emotions.

When I'm craving ice cream it's not because I've been mostly vegetarian for a week and am low on dietary cholesterol (AN IMPORTANT NUTRIENT. Don't be scared of consuming some cholesterol), I'm craving ice cream because sugar and fat taste good. So instead of trying to pretend that I'm getting "what I need" from a piece of salmon the size of a deck of cards with no salt and some lemon squeezed on top, I'm going to scoop out a moderate portion of ice cream and eat it while focusing on how much I enjoy it. And I'm going to do that instead of sitting down with a pint and a spoon while I'm stressed at work and eating something that tastes good to distract from the fact that work is stressful. (And sometimes it's fine to sit down with a pint and a spoon but I will say that's generally best not to do while you're in the middle of something stressful)

And if you want to relate that back to therapy I see this as more of the DBT approach. I've accepted that I want ice cream so I'm going to eat it in an intentional way and enjoy it instead of eating so much that I don't want dinner, or that it makes me feel sick, or that I eat it without noticing it because I'm using it as a distraction instead of a snack.

I'm not trying to shut down the negative emotion or shun the "bad" food, I'm accepting that I have that emotion and I'm working this neutral food into my day so that I'll feel good tomorrow and won't get heartburn overnight.

So I see that you're trying to be kind of anti diet culture here, but I don't think people need excuses to eat sugar, and I actually think that making excuses to eat it is significantly less healthy than just eating the sugar (which, again, is unambiguously healthy to eat as part of a varied, filling, nutritious diet). It seems like you may have internalized some ideas about sugar that are not great even if you are trying to separate from diet culture.

Nobody is ever going to eat a diet so healthy and nutritionally complete that they don't want candy or cake or cookies sometimes. Food is not only fuel, it is entertainment and culture and comfort and distraction and celebration and a million other things, but it is not bad. I don't think there's a single universally bad food out there, or any food that never belongs as part of someone's diet (unless it's something you're allergic to - I don't care if you're craving peanuts, do not eat peanuts if you have a peanut allergy).

So it's okay to make sugar, you don't need to make excuses. It's okay to eat sugar if you're craving sugar, even if that's not what your body "needs". But also sometimes a craving is your body saying "I'm hungry and this sounds good, please feed me" even if you're not a finely-tuned spectrometer that's craving blueberries pie because you actually need antioxidants from the blueberries (you're not a finely tuned spectrometer, you don't need the antioxidants from the blueberries, it's perfectly fine to just eat a slice of pie).

[sk1nbtchbl00g]

people who were fat as kids either become a fat adult or an adult with an eating disorder fr

[bigger-than-ana]

if you're not hungry, why are you eating this..?

[recoveryposting]

a little while ago i was talking to a friend about my ed and i dont remember the context but she said to me "I LOVE CARBOHYDRATES!!!!! I LOVE CALORIES!!!!!!" and i stopped and stared at my phone because i had genuinely never heard anyone say they love calories. like, even implicitly theres this messaging that lower calorie = better and that we should enjoy of food despite the calories it contains. and i was just floored that this was the first time i had ever heard anything like that and it made me feel so comforted. anyway appreciate your friends they are some of the most important people in the world

[o0jess0o]

Total= 138

Ingredients:

1 apple- 50

2 teaspoons sugar- 30

1 teaspoon cinnamon - 6

10g of oats- 35

Splash of oat milk- 7

1 tablespoon of fat free yogurt- 10

[somekindof-strength]

Monday calorie check in!

Today was weird for a Monday with the holiday. I didn’t actually meal prep or go to the store yesterday so this is lazy pantry staples lol. I don’t normally eat just two meals a day but that’s how the holiday worked out.

So I slept in, had a big brunch (spinach tofu scramble) with coffee. Went for a bike ride and had some milk and electrolytes to rehydrate. Then a lazy dinner of heart of palm pasta in a mushroom and tomato sauce!

[brain-go-brrrrr]

Cal amounts for snacks/meals

[luckyvickyana]

Hi everyone! 🐇

My name is Ana and i’m starting my journey on Tumblr right now… I tried other social media platforms but I never created any bond with the community and people never helped or replied to my questions… My first post is wieiad, I ate so much today.

What do you guys think? Please be honest! Give me some tips for cravings and anything! Thank you so much 🩷

[old-habits-that-give-control]

What I ate today:

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Cooked means gekocht in German so it says that. I cooked the rice one day before and I still have some for tomorrow and I weight the rice in the morning when I put it in my lunchbox.

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That was my last tomato and I am almost out of cucumber (⁠ ⁠･ั⁠﹏⁠･ั⁠) but I still have some salad I need to eat before I allow myself to buy new stuff. I don't want to waste food /⁠ᐠ⁠｡⁠ꞈ⁠｡⁠ᐟ⁠\

All in all I have to say I am pretty happy with today.

Here are my calories of the day:

Something about looking at all the small portions is so satisfying to me I can't explain it.

Anyways I hope you have a wonderful day or night and may you wake up thinner that before 🎀🪽

[sk1nbtchbl00g]

☆ing is bad but intermittent fasting is good?

bruh do you think your body knows why youre not eating LMAO

[jst-sals]

pray for me yall 😔🙏

[bonescrusher]

My favorite thinspo

[uncanny-tranny]

It actually does bother me that eating is treated like spending money - that you have an allotted allowance in the form of calories that you are supposed to budget.

"How are you spending your calories?" I'm spending them on experiences. I'm spending them on time with my community, my people, those who matter to me. I'm spending them on satiating a human need. I'm spending them on the feeling of being alive and not just living.

If there is one experience that I don't want to "pay" for, it's the basic human right of comfort, security, community, and care.

[binggbonggg]

The hardest part of having an ed is relearning how to eat.

Changing your mindset from “to live is to eat” to “to eat is to live” takes time, dedication, and restraint, but it’s so worth it in the end.

You got this!! Keep going!! You’re doing great!! :)