It’s just good fortune then that come November a packet of crisps will cost £7.99, and a steak bake will me £9.99.
Opinion. When you can’t see your cock anymore, lay off the buns.
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Gained about 25KG in a few years from all the food my partners mum makes, plus social pressure from her family/friends to eat takeaways/eat out every week.
Managed to get it down to just +20KG now but that is since Jan cutting out breakfast and usually cooking for myself. Plus trying to avoid takeaways although not always succeeding there.
When I lived on my own I never ate a takeaway. I don’t really understand the appeal in restaurants either. Food I could make myself but far more expensive. Unless it is a high quality place then sure I can’t cook that but it is now 50 times the cost.
Food addiction *is* real and we ought to have more sympathy for people struggling with it.
Any former alcoholic will tell you they can’t have another drink. Recovered drug addicts know that clean has to mean clean. Ex problem gamblers can avoid the craps tables for the rest of their lives.
But food addicts can’t just stop eating. It’s tougher than people think it is.
People just can’t comprehend how calorie dense most food is. It’s not helped by the way nutrition information is presented on packaged food, in particular snack foods and breakfast cereals. Showing the amount of calories per “serving” (an arbitrary amount which largely bears no relation to how much of the item people consume in one sitting) is meaningless. Portioning out one serving leaves you feeling unsatisfied to the point you’d have been better off foregoing altogether.
Sugar taxes and fat taxes won’t stop people eating these things any more than taxing plastic tat will stop people buying it. People will go into debt to keep the style to which they’ve become accustomed. The only way to end these issues is quite literally to remove them from sale or rationing (which is fraught with its own risk of black market and corruption but which would probably be less open to it now than it was in the 1930s), backed up by proper food education for adults and children.
Love the comments when this is about an addiction, have you tried not being addicted?
The solution is simple but can be difficult. Buy consciously. Eat simple, nutritious foods, and be in a calorie deficit. When you treat yourself to a meal out, don’t have the sides.
Am I an addict? I literally eat food at least twice a day, most days three times.
I feel like there are a number of problems that contribute to this, and I know I am overweight and have a problem with food. People are still working long hours only a lot of us work more sedentary jobs than previous generations, meaning we aren’t burning energy as much purely through work. Because of this we now need to make more dedicated time to actually be active, in turn this leads to less time after work, leading to less time to cook proper meals, leading to more ready meals or take aways. On top of this we no longer really have a ‘stay-at-home’ figure of the household now that all members of the household should be working and earning an income (and no I’m not saying women should go back to being housewives, I’m saying that job hours should have been merged rather than added to, effectively a standard household is now 80 hours of income and things are priced accordingly)
I can also only speak from experience but at school my home economics education was practically 0, I’m lucky I had parents who taught me to cook and I was expected to help with getting dinners prepped or ready, but many don’t get that teaching. To me it’s a massive failure of education that some people genuinely aren’t taught how to cook and feed themselves properly. Nutrition education was appalling for myself, as well as PE. In my case PE was a once a week class, really we need to make time for PE throughout the week. In my case it was also focussed on team sports with all the usual teenage fun like picking the popular or good at given sport kids and making fun of those who weren’t as good. We need more solo or even gym teaching. I feel like we also have a culture problem with food and exercise. I know from my own experience once you reach a certain age it feels like the only activity a lot of people are interested in is going out for drinks. When I speak to people from the likes of America through work they all have these wide range of hobbies compared to people here, but that is just my experience of course.
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It’s just good fortune then that come November a packet of crisps will cost £7.99, and a steak bake will me £9.99.
Opinion. When you can’t see your cock anymore, lay off the buns.
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Gained about 25KG in a few years from all the food my partners mum makes, plus social pressure from her family/friends to eat takeaways/eat out every week.
Managed to get it down to just +20KG now but that is since Jan cutting out breakfast and usually cooking for myself. Plus trying to avoid takeaways although not always succeeding there.
When I lived on my own I never ate a takeaway. I don’t really understand the appeal in restaurants either. Food I could make myself but far more expensive. Unless it is a high quality place then sure I can’t cook that but it is now 50 times the cost.
Food addiction *is* real and we ought to have more sympathy for people struggling with it.
Any former alcoholic will tell you they can’t have another drink. Recovered drug addicts know that clean has to mean clean. Ex problem gamblers can avoid the craps tables for the rest of their lives.
But food addicts can’t just stop eating. It’s tougher than people think it is.
People just can’t comprehend how calorie dense most food is. It’s not helped by the way nutrition information is presented on packaged food, in particular snack foods and breakfast cereals. Showing the amount of calories per “serving” (an arbitrary amount which largely bears no relation to how much of the item people consume in one sitting) is meaningless. Portioning out one serving leaves you feeling unsatisfied to the point you’d have been better off foregoing altogether.
Sugar taxes and fat taxes won’t stop people eating these things any more than taxing plastic tat will stop people buying it. People will go into debt to keep the style to which they’ve become accustomed. The only way to end these issues is quite literally to remove them from sale or rationing (which is fraught with its own risk of black market and corruption but which would probably be less open to it now than it was in the 1930s), backed up by proper food education for adults and children.
Love the comments when this is about an addiction, have you tried not being addicted?
The solution is simple but can be difficult. Buy consciously. Eat simple, nutritious foods, and be in a calorie deficit. When you treat yourself to a meal out, don’t have the sides.
Am I an addict? I literally eat food at least twice a day, most days three times.
I feel like there are a number of problems that contribute to this, and I know I am overweight and have a problem with food. People are still working long hours only a lot of us work more sedentary jobs than previous generations, meaning we aren’t burning energy as much purely through work. Because of this we now need to make more dedicated time to actually be active, in turn this leads to less time after work, leading to less time to cook proper meals, leading to more ready meals or take aways. On top of this we no longer really have a ‘stay-at-home’ figure of the household now that all members of the household should be working and earning an income (and no I’m not saying women should go back to being housewives, I’m saying that job hours should have been merged rather than added to, effectively a standard household is now 80 hours of income and things are priced accordingly)
I can also only speak from experience but at school my home economics education was practically 0, I’m lucky I had parents who taught me to cook and I was expected to help with getting dinners prepped or ready, but many don’t get that teaching. To me it’s a massive failure of education that some people genuinely aren’t taught how to cook and feed themselves properly. Nutrition education was appalling for myself, as well as PE. In my case PE was a once a week class, really we need to make time for PE throughout the week. In my case it was also focussed on team sports with all the usual teenage fun like picking the popular or good at given sport kids and making fun of those who weren’t as good. We need more solo or even gym teaching. I feel like we also have a culture problem with food and exercise. I know from my own experience once you reach a certain age it feels like the only activity a lot of people are interested in is going out for drinks. When I speak to people from the likes of America through work they all have these wide range of hobbies compared to people here, but that is just my experience of course.
In the old days it was called greed.