I’m in the process of trying to lose a little weight to get my BMI a comfortable distance below the “Overweight” tier. That requires fighting natural urges to eat anything and everything available because of evolving in an environment where food was hard-won or otherwise scarce.
And yet, I wouldn’t say I’ve fully overcome the programming because my body and hindbrain literally scream at me and start bargaining every time I skip a snack, but it seems to be working.
& do the experiment of making yourself pairs of dishes with 1/2 of each pair being the most-pacifying-for-your-metabolism ingredients & the other being the most-aggravating-for-your-metabolism.
The experience was shocking as hell for me, when I did it.
It may identify the “system” underlying what ingredients you need to understand, in order to liberate your healing into your life.
My diet is fine. You may have missed that I’m cutting out things that qualify as snacks. Things whose nutritional content is limited and are mostly fat and carbohydrates, including those commonly eaten right after what might otherwise be a sensible meal.
I’m talking biscuits (cookies), cakes and the like. I already don’t eat crisps (chips) nor do I drink anything with fizz or sugar (or both).
If I can’t get to a good weight doing just that, I might look into alternative sources of nutrition and superfoods, but those tend to cost the sort of money that I can ill afford to spend.
Also, I looked at the blurb for that book and it claims that it contains recipes that will “treat” cancer. That’s weasel wording to avoid being called snake oil, while at the same time convincing the gullible that it contains a cure, so you’ll forgive me if I give it a miss.
I didn’t recommend the book, I recommended the ingredients-lists in it, for the specific metabolisms/doshas.
( I’m presuming this is about Frawley’s “Ayurvedic Healing”: here in Notifications, & I’m trying to get through 800+ of the things tonight, that context isn’t visible. )
It isn’t even relevant to me what else it says in the book!
Why should I care?
those ingredients-lists are MAGIC level of help/good!
That’s it: that’s all I care about.
Life-saving help, making healing significantly more-possible, more-easy, & more-comprehensible.
But nobody, anywhere, needs to accept truth from a subset-of-a-book, if they contempt the book-as-a-whole.
I’m in the process of trying to lose a little weight to get my BMI a comfortable distance below the “Overweight” tier. That requires fighting natural urges to eat anything and everything available because of evolving in an environment where food was hard-won or otherwise scarce.
And yet, I wouldn’t say I’ve fully overcome the programming because my body and hindbrain literally scream at me and start bargaining every time I skip a snack, but it seems to be working.
So it’s not commonly reported, but all cause mortality is lowest in the “overweight” category of between 25-30 BMI. There’s reason to believe that “overweight” but not “obese” is healthier than “normal.”
Probably gives the body a little bit of extra resilience while limiting the harmful effects of obesity.
Please, I beg you, invest in https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ayurvedic-healing-a-comprehensive-guide
& do the experiment of making yourself pairs of dishes with 1/2 of each pair being the most-pacifying-for-your-metabolism ingredients & the other being the most-aggravating-for-your-metabolism.
The experience was shocking as hell for me, when I did it.
It may identify the “system” underlying what ingredients you need to understand, in order to liberate your healing into your life.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,
_ /\ _
My diet is fine. You may have missed that I’m cutting out things that qualify as snacks. Things whose nutritional content is limited and are mostly fat and carbohydrates, including those commonly eaten right after what might otherwise be a sensible meal.
I’m talking biscuits (cookies), cakes and the like. I already don’t eat crisps (chips) nor do I drink anything with fizz or sugar (or both).
If I can’t get to a good weight doing just that, I might look into alternative sources of nutrition and superfoods, but those tend to cost the sort of money that I can ill afford to spend.
Also, I looked at the blurb for that book and it claims that it contains recipes that will “treat” cancer. That’s weasel wording to avoid being called snake oil, while at the same time convincing the gullible that it contains a cure, so you’ll forgive me if I give it a miss.
Give it a miss: good.
I didn’t recommend the book, I recommended the ingredients-lists in it, for the specific metabolisms/doshas.
( I’m presuming this is about Frawley’s “Ayurvedic Healing”: here in Notifications, & I’m trying to get through 800+ of the things tonight, that context isn’t visible. )
It isn’t even relevant to me what else it says in the book!
Why should I care?
those ingredients-lists are MAGIC level of help/good!
That’s it: that’s all I care about.
Life-saving help, making healing significantly more-possible, more-easy, & more-comprehensible.
But nobody, anywhere, needs to accept truth from a subset-of-a-book, if they contempt the book-as-a-whole.
That’s how humans decide validity.
& that’s fine.
_ /\ _