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09 October 2015

I keep sitting here writing out shopping lists of the foods I want to eat. Not unhealthy foods, things like home made meatloaf, roast beef and potatoes, nice, naturally sweet fruit salad, you know, good, balanced, nutritionally significant foods. Then, when I finish writing out the list the horrid truth hits me: I can't afford to get these good foods and, even if I could, my health issues will make preparing those good foods into a struggle since I can only do small bits of work without rest due to my fibromyalgia and joint issues. I've written out the things I want to be able to get so I can eat well but, again, I know it's going to turn out the same way. We won't have the money for bananas and avocados and bean sprouts so the only choices left that can be afforded are dollar store packs of ramen, canned meats to actually get some protein and other salt packed, unhealthy canned and boxed $1 food items.

People love to tell the poor and sick that they need to eat better but the harsh reality is that we can't afford to. Even people like me who would much rather eat healthy, tasty, good foods over the disgusting junk foods and convenience meals can't afford to eat right. Sometimes it really isn't about choice, it's what you're forced to eat because that's all you can afford to eat.

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08 February 2015

Weigh-in: 281.0 lb

lost so far: 17.0 lb

still to go: 111.0 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

add comment losing 0.5 lb a week

26 January 2015

So then, after a week without many processed foods, just fresh ingredients for the most part save for my cola, I ended up feeling a lot better. Had energy, still hurt like hell but that happens with my illnesses and just having energy to fight the pain did a lot for me. Well, today I didn't have much choice but to eat a rather processed item due to a lack of both food and money. I should have just not eaten to be honest because just one heavily processed item and I feel sick, drained and nauseous. This was from just ONE average processed food item. Just one. Really makes me realize just how much I've been poisoning my system by eating the way people do where I now live.

I came from the south, we cooked a lot, most of the food I ate for the first 23 years of my life was fresh food and, even though I hurt due to illnesses and physical damage to my body, I was still able to push on for those first 23 years. When I came here to the north I fell into eating the way they do up here and then I started getting too sick to push on as I had before. I thought it was just my hard life finally catching up with me, doctors told me it was just my health issues progressing causing it but no, after this I think it's safe to say it's the processed food culture that really put that nail in the coffin. Of course there are other factors but, after feeling so much better while eating non-processed foods for only a week and this quick relapse after just one average processed food ending up on my plate, I think it's safe to assume the processed food is the culprit.

I'm going shopping tomorrow so I'll be able to get a decent stock of whole foods to avoid having to suffer with the effects of the processed stuff again. Surprisingly the whole foods seem to be cheaper than the processed, easy stuff, especially if you cook large batches like I tend to. If you're sick, feel no energy and are eating processed foods, give cutting them out of your diet a try, it's why I have been feeling as horrid as I have these last 4 years, who knows, it may be adding to your problems as well. Or maybe it's the fact I'm chemically sensitive making me react like this to processed foods, don't know for certain but I can only speak from my own experiences on this.

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24 January 2015

Weigh-in: 282.0 lb

lost so far: 16.0 lb

still to go: 112.0 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

add comment losing 22.8 lb a week

20 January 2015

Weigh-in: 295.0 lb

lost so far: 3.0 lb

still to go: 125.0 lb

Diet followed poorly

add comment gaining 10.2 lb a week

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