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Cheetos are an acquired taste. So are sweet potato fries. It's a matter of what you want to like, to some degree (obviously there's no convincing you that something like, say, grass is tasty. But grass also isn't able to be processed by most mammals with the exception of cattle).
I see alterations to diet as a new job in a way. It's kind of uncomfortable at first as you go through these new unfamiliar motions (which you know will benefit when "pay days" come around, i.e. less inflamed skin) but along the way you learn a lot and meet new people who have similar goals as you (this website as well as people irl. you'd be surprised how many people take interest and know what you're talking about when you mention lectins this or bad for digestion that. I've overdone this a little as well too when talking smack openly on wheat at my new job in front of coworkers, haha). So it's weird at first and it does seem like you're depraving yourself of things you normally love, the substitutes you find you end up relying on too much (spoonfuls of coconut products...), and it generally just seems out of your comfort zone.
Kind of sounds like feelings of mental discomfort in general, doesn't it? And how do you overcome those? By focusing on the good parts of what you're doing. Make acts of benefiting your body a process to be happy about and know how to treat yourself. The other night I had unsweetened ghiradelli's cocoa powder blended and heated with coconut and almond milk, a little stevia, cinnamon, and chinese 5 spice powder, which is filled with anti-inflammatory herbs. I was stoked. Not only was I taking sips of something delicious but also with the knowledge that I was nourishing my body with something chocolatey. It also helped me go to sleep easier.
Anyway, like with most jobs when you're first getting started, you're going to obsess over what and what no to do and protocol and adapting to a fast-paced environment. Just stay committed with a willingness to learn and soon your skin's texture will be in the back of your mind as you coast through your diet rather than the forefront, where it causes anxiety.
How about fresh vegetables, milk straight from the cow, home cooked meals everyday, ect... 16 kids and life on a farm does not give them many opportunities to enjoy soda/store bought junk foods, ect... And having a mother who didn't like kids made those opportunities even less. As for Vit C, oranges, orange juice, & Vit C supplements all do it for me. I'm not much of a fruit/vegetable eater so that's the only 3 things I've tried.
What kind of acne did they have? Were they picky eaters? What kind of vegetables? And problem foods like bread, cake, cookies, candy, canned with sugar added fruit, etc can be home made. That was once how most people got them. And milk, even straight from a cow, has an impact. And an awful lot of processed foods began creeping into the diet even of poor farmer folk during the war. Look at mock apple pie - no apples, all crackers dating back to the 1800s, but Ritz crackers promoted it and made it really common in the 30s. Nabisco and their ilk have been worming their way in for a really long time.
My grandmother and my mom for the first 10 years of her life also lived on a farm. In fact, my grandmother didn't get to start her senior year of high school until late November because her mother went into hospital with TB and she, as the oldest of about 16 kids, had to do all the canning and preserving so they'd have food. And she probably eats now a lot like she did then as anything 'new' might as well be from Mars. Vegetables tend to mean corn, potatoes and green beans with the one truly valuable vegetable being cabbage. All overcooked until most nutrients are gone. And she eats bread with every meal, makes cookies, cans fruit with heavy syrup, etc. So fresh vegetables straight from the farm aren't necessarily all that healthy. It depends on what vegetables and what they do with them. But, that side of the family doesn't have acne. Mine came from my father's side and they had no money for much, but unfortunately junk like corn flakes are cheap.
It's just ridiculous how unhealthy foods are more delicious than healthy foods.
No, they really aren't.
It's just ridiculous how unhealthy foods are more delicious than healthy foods.
No, they really aren't.
100% agree!
But still I understand that it's all a matter of taste, what the palate asks for, and also what your body asks for. Cooked and processed foods all have mind-altering substances and appetite-enhancers. So, to me, eating cooked/processed foods (specially processed junk) is a drug. It's just a matter of leaving that drug. I speak of experience, because before I started Wai Diet I was a junk food lover, and then I started cutting down 1 bad food at once, the last and the hardest being BREAD!! It took me some 4 weeks of some moderate cold turkey to be able to completely leave bread, and now, a few months past, I really couldn't eat any!! I'd vomit, I guess!
It's all a matter of habit.
My diet was pretty much crap as a kid and got worse as a teenager. I grew up on SAD and my parents didn't cook that much. My nana did, but that was only on weekends and wasn't that nutritional anyway. When I was old enough to be out on my own, I lived off of sweets because they were so addicting. Doughnuts, soda, candy, pasta, extra light sweet coffee, fast food, frozen prepared foods, baked goods, ice cream... I never thought it was that unhealthy because I've always been thin.
It's just ridiculous how unhealthy foods are more delicious than healthy foods.
No, they really aren't.
My diet was pretty much crap as a kid and got worse as a teenager. I grew up on SAD and my parents didn't cook that much. My nana did, but that was only on weekends and wasn't that nutritional anyway. When I was old enough to be out on my own, I lived off of sweets because they were so addicting. Doughnuts, soda, candy, pasta, extra light sweet coffee, fast food, frozen prepared foods, baked goods, ice cream... I never thought it was that unhealthy because I've always been thin.
It's just ridiculous how unhealthy foods are more delicious than healthy foods.
No, they really aren't.
100% agree!
But still I understand that it's all a matter of taste, what the palate asks for, and also what your body asks for. Cooked and processed foods all have mind-altering substances and appetite-enhancers. So, to me, eating cooked/processed foods (specially processed junk) is a drug. It's just a matter of leaving that drug. I speak of experience, because before I started Wai Diet I was a junk food lover, and then I started cutting down 1 bad food at once, the last and the hardest being BREAD!! It took me some 4 weeks of some moderate cold turkey to be able to completely leave bread, and now, a few months past, I really couldn't eat any!! I'd vomit, I guess!
It's all a matter of habit.
Sugar has got to be the most addicting substance. It scares me to think how much of it I used to eat and how I would crave it.
It scares me to think how much I still do crave it, to some degree and how cheap/acquirable it is...
My diet was pretty much crap as a kid and got worse as a teenager. I grew up on SAD and my parents didn't cook that much. My nana did, but that was only on weekends and wasn't that nutritional anyway. When I was old enough to be out on my own, I lived off of sweets because they were so addicting. Doughnuts, soda, candy, pasta, extra light sweet coffee, fast food, frozen prepared foods, baked goods, ice cream... I never thought it was that unhealthy because I've always been thin.
It's just ridiculous how unhealthy foods are more delicious than healthy foods.
No, they really aren't.
100% agree!
But still I understand that it's all a matter of taste, what the palate asks for, and also what your body asks for. Cooked and processed foods all have mind-altering substances and appetite-enhancers. So, to me, eating cooked/processed foods (specially processed junk) is a drug. It's just a matter of leaving that drug. I speak of experience, because before I started Wai Diet I was a junk food lover, and then I started cutting down 1 bad food at once, the last and the hardest being BREAD!! It took me some 4 weeks of some moderate cold turkey to be able to completely leave bread, and now, a few months past, I really couldn't eat any!! I'd vomit, I guess!
It's all a matter of habit.
Sugar has got to be the most addicting substance. It scares me to think how much of it I used to eat and how I would crave it.
It scares me to think how much I still do crave it, to some degree and how cheap/acquirable it is...
I don't know if sucrose (white sugar) is addicting, but it's a pure substance so it doesn't have mind altering substances, appetite enhancers or other nasty chemicals. Maybe what you crave is sweets, candies, etc, since those all have those nasty chemicals substances, sometimes added purposely to make us addicted.
Sucrose and other sugars can be addictive, but psychologically only. Processed junk is physically addictive. Curiously, I always had that "sugar fury" too, before Wai, and now I never had it anymore. Even if I only consume fats and proteins in one day (tomatoes, cucumbers, avocados, oils, eggs, fish), I never really crave sugar.
Yeah I had to nip it in the bud. A couple of weeks ago a patient (I work in a doctor's office) brought in some homemade brownies and to be nice I tried one. They were ok tasting, but there must have been about 30 grams of sugar in that one brownie and all I wanted to do was eat the entire tray. Even though it wasn't that good and I felt kinda sick after... I wanted more! It consumes me! I seem to have this sugar threshold... once I cross it, I'm like a crackhead.
So yeah, I just say no. Sugar is bad, m'kay.
And on that note... 95% of my daughter's Halloween candy this year is getting donated or getting used candyexperiments.com style. That stuff is crap. I wish more people would give out small toys and pencils and stuff.
It makes me sad to think that people would be angry at their parents for what they fed them as a child. Most parents just do the best they can; they buy what they can afford or they buy sweets and processed foods because they know their children like the taste and they want to give them something they enjoy. It's not like they were intentionally sabotaging you, so I don't think they deserve resentment for it.
I don't blame my parents for what they fed me as a child, because they didn't have a lot of money or a lot of time (my mom worked midnight shifts to be home with us during the day, dad worked day shifts to be home with us at night). But they tried to give us healthy things when they could. We always had fruit and vegetables. And actually, a lot of what we ate was home-made because it was cheaper, so it might have been marginally healthier than the store-bought stuff. But I do remember things like Kraft Dinner, Alphaghetti, ice-cream, chocolate-covered granola bars, sugary juice, Lunchables!... etc. I could never eat those things now because I've become very sensitive to sweet or salty things since eliminating them, to the point that I don't even crave or enjoy them anymore.
What's interesting to me, though, and a little off topic, is that me and my brother were polar opposites. I was always underweight, he was always overweight. Doctors did ask my mother what she was feeding him, but then you have to wonder, what about the other child who lives in the same house and eats the exact same foods and can't gain weight? I eliminated processed foods from my diet in my early teen years, but my brother never did. And yet I get acne, but my brother does not. It seems kind of backwards and just makes me that there's more to it than just what you eat or did eat in the past. But I have no idea. It's just odd.
My mum did follow a special diet when she was pregnant with me though, because she had gestational diabetes, so she did the finger-pricking and following a meal plan and everything, and she also quit smoking while she was pregnant with me. When she got pregnant with my brother, I think she was seeing a new doctor and he told her not to bother with the diabetic diet, so I often wonder if that had an impact. My mother never had diabetes when she wasn't pregnant and I've had my blood sugars tested quite a few times and they're normal, but some of my extended family do have diabetes.
It makes me sad to think that people would be angry at their parents for what they fed them as a child. Most parents just do the best they can; they buy what they can afford or they buy sweets and processed foods because they know their children like the taste and they want to give them something they enjoy. It's not like they were intentionally sabotaging you, so I don't think they deserve resentment for it.
I don't blame my parents for what they fed me as a child, because they didn't have a lot of money or a lot of time (my mom worked midnight shifts to be home with us during the day, dad worked day shifts to be home with us at night).
Eating healthy is not a matter of money or time. Wai Diet is the perfect example of that. The reason why our parents fed us bad is because they were ignorant about nutrition, or just thought that processed foods "oh, it's just food, it can't be that bad once in while!". A few extra kcals, carbs or fats aren't really that bad once in a while, the bad thing is the chemical load they add to those junk foods, the nasty processing, and probably the little hygiene and poor raw material quality of their production, and these factors 90% of our parents never thought about.
So, I don't blame my parents, I'm not angry at them, because they weren't evil feeding me bad. They were just ignorant, and a bit narrow-minded.
I don't blame my parents for what they fed me as a child, because they didn't have a lot of money or a lot of time (my mom worked midnight shifts to be home with us during the day, dad worked day shifts to be home with us at night). But they tried to give us healthy things when they could. We always had fruit and vegetables. And actually, a lot of what we ate was home-made because it was cheaper, so it might have been marginally healthier than the store-bought stuff. But I do remember things like Kraft Dinner, Alphaghetti, ice-cream, chocolate-covered granola bars, sugary juice, Lunchables!... etc. I could never eat those things now because I've become very sensitive to sweet or salty things since eliminating them, to the point that I don't even crave or enjoy them anymore.
What's interesting to me, though, and a little off topic, is that me and my brother were polar opposites. I was always underweight, he was always overweight. Doctors did ask my mother what she was feeding him, but then you have to wonder, what about the other child who lives in the same house and eats the exact same foods and can't gain weight? I eliminated processed foods from my diet in my early teen years, but my brother never did. And yet I get acne, but my brother does not. It seems kind of backwards and just makes me that there's more to it than just what you eat or did eat in the past. But I have no idea. It's just odd.
My mum did follow a special diet when she was pregnant with me though, because she had gestational diabetes, so she did the finger-pricking and following a meal plan and everything, and she also quit smoking while she was pregnant with me. When she got pregnant with my brother, I think she was seeing a new doctor and he told her not to bother with the diabetic diet, so I often wonder if that had an impact. My mother never had diabetes when she wasn't pregnant and I've had my blood sugars tested quite a few times and they're normal, but some of my extended family do have diabetes.
Lunchables are not cheap. they are actually ridiculously expensive for the amount of 'food' they contain. And was your brother a large baby at birth? And everyone's body does slightly different things with the resources it has.
So, I don't blame my parents, I'm not angry at them, because they weren't evil feeding me bad. They were just ignorant, and a bit narrow-minded.
I also don`t blame my parents - however - I wouldn`t call them ignorant when the scientific community says: saturated fats are bad, vegetable oil is good, eat whole grains and low fat milk.
Society is the problem.. and yet people cling to scientific articles as if they promote truth.. crazyness.
So, I don't blame my parents, I'm not angry at them, because they weren't evil feeding me bad. They were just ignorant, and a bit narrow-minded.
I also don`t blame my parents - however - I wouldn`t call them ignorant when the scientific community says: saturated fats are bad, vegetable oil is good, eat whole grains and low fat milk.
Society is the problem.. and yet people cling to scientific articles as if they promote truth.. crazyness.
You're totally right man!
But I wasn't even talking about grains and milk and etc, which, like you must know, I also think that are really bad for us humans.
I was talking about junk food, processed chemical-loaded crap, since it's 100x worse, and even the medical community is and has ever been strongly against it! That's where I think my parents, who fed me junk sweets and fast food a lot, were ignorant and narrow-minded.
But again, you're totally right... society is the problem! We gotta start changing it, progressively.
And btw why people cling to white coats as if they were angels? Because a lot of people of the older generations are too naive, ignorant and narrow-minded to live in this complex globalized new world of marketing and trickiness. White coats are the new saints.
I don't blame my parents for what they fed me as a child, because they didn't have a lot of money or a lot of time (my mom worked midnight shifts to be home with us during the day, dad worked day shifts to be home with us at night). But they tried to give us healthy things when they could. We always had fruit and vegetables. And actually, a lot of what we ate was home-made because it was cheaper, so it might have been marginally healthier than the store-bought stuff. But I do remember things like Kraft Dinner, Alphaghetti, ice-cream, chocolate-covered granola bars, sugary juice, Lunchables!... etc. I could never eat those things now because I've become very sensitive to sweet or salty things since eliminating them, to the point that I don't even crave or enjoy them anymore.
What's interesting to me, though, and a little off topic, is that me and my brother were polar opposites. I was always underweight, he was always overweight. Doctors did ask my mother what she was feeding him, but then you have to wonder, what about the other child who lives in the same house and eats the exact same foods and can't gain weight? I eliminated processed foods from my diet in my early teen years, but my brother never did. And yet I get acne, but my brother does not. It seems kind of backwards and just makes me that there's more to it than just what you eat or did eat in the past. But I have no idea. It's just odd.
My mum did follow a special diet when she was pregnant with me though, because she had gestational diabetes, so she did the finger-pricking and following a meal plan and everything, and she also quit smoking while she was pregnant with me. When she got pregnant with my brother, I think she was seeing a new doctor and he told her not to bother with the diabetic diet, so I often wonder if that had an impact. My mother never had diabetes when she wasn't pregnant and I've had my blood sugars tested quite a few times and they're normal, but some of my extended family do have diabetes.
Lunchables are not cheap. they are actually ridiculously expensive for the amount of 'food' they contain. And was your brother a large baby at birth? And everyone's body does slightly different things with the resources it has.
Yeah, he was quite a large baby. I'm not sure exactly how much he weighed, but it was over 10 pounds. Does that mean something? (I was 8 pounds though, and that's kind of big too isn't it?)
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It makes me sad to think that people would be angry at their parents for what they fed them as a child. Most parents just do the best they can; they buy what they can afford or they buy sweets and processed foods because they know their children like the taste and they want to give them something they enjoy. It's not like they were intentionally sabotaging you, so I don't think they deserve resentment for it.
I don't blame my parents for what they fed me as a child, because they didn't have a lot of money or a lot of time (my mom worked midnight shifts to be home with us during the day, dad worked day shifts to be home with us at night). But they tried to give us healthy things when they could. We always had fruit and vegetables. And actually, a lot of what we ate was home-made because it was cheaper, so it might have been marginally healthier than the store-bought stuff. But I do remember things like Kraft Dinner, Alphaghetti, ice-cream, chocolate-covered granola bars, sugary juice, Lunchables!... etc. I could never eat those things now because I've become very sensitive to sweet or salty things since eliminating them, to the point that I don't even crave or enjoy them anymore.
What's interesting to me, though, and a little off topic, is that me and my brother were polar opposites. I was always underweight, he was always overweight. Doctors did ask my mother what she was feeding him, but then you have to wonder, what about the other child who lives in the same house and eats the exact same foods and can't gain weight? I eliminated processed foods from my diet in my early teen years, but my brother never did. And yet I get acne, but my brother does not. It seems kind of backwards and just makes me that there's more to it than just what you eat or did eat in the past. But I have no idea. It's just odd.
My mum did follow a special diet when she was pregnant with me though, because she had gestational diabetes, so she did the finger-pricking and following a meal plan and everything, and she also quit smoking while she was pregnant with me. When she got pregnant with my brother, I think she was seeing a new doctor and he told her not to bother with the diabetic diet, so I often wonder if that had an impact. My mother never had diabetes when she wasn't pregnant and I've had my blood sugars tested quite a few times and they're normal, but some of my extended family do have diabetes.
I don't blame my parents for what they fed me as a child, because they didn't have a lot of money or a lot of time (my mom worked midnight shifts to be home with us during the day, dad worked day shifts to be home with us at night). But they tried to give us healthy things when they could. We always had fruit and vegetables. And actually, a lot of what we ate was home-made because it was cheaper, so it might have been marginally healthier than the store-bought stuff. But I do remember things like Kraft Dinner, Alphaghetti, ice-cream, chocolate-covered granola bars, sugary juice, Lunchables!... etc. I could never eat those things now because I've become very sensitive to sweet or salty things since eliminating them, to the point that I don't even crave or enjoy them anymore.
What's interesting to me, though, and a little off topic, is that me and my brother were polar opposites. I was always underweight, he was always overweight. Doctors did ask my mother what she was feeding him, but then you have to wonder, what about the other child who lives in the same house and eats the exact same foods and can't gain weight? I eliminated processed foods from my diet in my early teen years, but my brother never did. And yet I get acne, but my brother does not. It seems kind of backwards and just makes me that there's more to it than just what you eat or did eat in the past. But I have no idea. It's just odd.
My mum did follow a special diet when she was pregnant with me though, because she had gestational diabetes, so she did the finger-pricking and following a meal plan and everything, and she also quit smoking while she was pregnant with me. When she got pregnant with my brother, I think she was seeing a new doctor and he told her not to bother with the diabetic diet, so I often wonder if that had an impact. My mother never had diabetes when she wasn't pregnant and I've had my blood sugars tested quite a few times and they're normal, but some of my extended family do have diabetes.
Lunchables are not cheap. they are actually ridiculously expensive for the amount of 'food' they contain. And was your brother a large baby at birth? And everyone's body does slightly different things with the resources it has.
Yeah, he was quite a large baby. I'm not sure exactly how much he weighed, but it was over 10 pounds. Does that mean something? (I was 8 pounds though, and that's kind of big too isn't it?)
Yes, and doctors are supposed to pay attention to low and high birthweights. High birthweights (above 8lbs 13 oz (4000 grams)) often mean the mother has diabetes and the baby recieves excess glucose stimulating the baby's pancreas to produce more insulin. They think this may damage the pancreas.
And the advice from the second doctor is a perfect example of why you should never, ever, blindly follow a doctor's advice.
I started Food Inc and turned it off when the chickens were getting their throats sliced conveyor style, I'll finish it sometime I was just sick of being told why food in America sucks when I already know it does.
Same here. I know it's horrific. I don't want to know all the details.
Where does one acquire lard/tallow besides a farm?
Hispanic markets usually have it. It's unlikely to be from grass fed animals though.
I don't blame my parents for what they fed me as a child, because they didn't have a lot of money or a lot of time (my mom worked midnight shifts to be home with us during the day, dad worked day shifts to be home with us at night). But they tried to give us healthy things when they could. We always had fruit and vegetables. And actually, a lot of what we ate was home-made because it was cheaper, so it might have been marginally healthier than the store-bought stuff. But I do remember things like Kraft Dinner, Alphaghetti, ice-cream, chocolate-covered granola bars, sugary juice, Lunchables!... etc. I could never eat those things now because I've become very sensitive to sweet or salty things since eliminating them, to the point that I don't even crave or enjoy them anymore.
What's interesting to me, though, and a little off topic, is that me and my brother were polar opposites. I was always underweight, he was always overweight. Doctors did ask my mother what she was feeding him, but then you have to wonder, what about the other child who lives in the same house and eats the exact same foods and can't gain weight? I eliminated processed foods from my diet in my early teen years, but my brother never did. And yet I get acne, but my brother does not. It seems kind of backwards and just makes me that there's more to it than just what you eat or did eat in the past. But I have no idea. It's just odd.
My mum did follow a special diet when she was pregnant with me though, because she had gestational diabetes, so she did the finger-pricking and following a meal plan and everything, and she also quit smoking while she was pregnant with me. When she got pregnant with my brother, I think she was seeing a new doctor and he told her not to bother with the diabetic diet, so I often wonder if that had an impact. My mother never had diabetes when she wasn't pregnant and I've had my blood sugars tested quite a few times and they're normal, but some of my extended family do have diabetes.
Lunchables are not cheap. they are actually ridiculously expensive for the amount of 'food' they contain. And was your brother a large baby at birth? And everyone's body does slightly different things with the resources it has.
Yeah, he was quite a large baby. I'm not sure exactly how much he weighed, but it was over 10 pounds. Does that mean something? (I was 8 pounds though, and that's kind of big too isn't it?)
Yes, and doctors are supposed to pay attention to low and high birthweights. High birthweights (above 8lbs 13 oz (4000 grams)) often mean the mother has diabetes and the baby recieves excess glucose stimulating the baby's pancreas to produce more insulin. They think this may damage the pancreas.
And the advice from the second doctor is a perfect example of why you should never, ever, blindly follow a doctor's advice.
I am very very intrigued by this! I won't bother you with any more questions because it's quite off topic for an acne forum, but you've definitely given me something to think about. I feel very sorry for my mother, because I know that if she could rewind time she would do absolutely anything and everything to ensure her babies were healthy, but at that time she just wouldn't have thought that you couldn't trust a doctor - plus we lived in an extremely small town and our doctor was the only one available for hours. I also feel sorry for my brother, because ever since he was a child he has been both overweight and considerably taller than other children his age. He also had a multitude of health problems as a boy, he was sick constantly, had severe nosebleeds all the time and vomited more than any child should...
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It makes me sad to think that people would be angry at their parents for what they fed them as a child. Most parents just do the best they can; they buy what they can afford or they buy sweets and processed foods because they know their children like the taste and they want to give them something they enjoy. It's not like they were intentionally sabotaging you, so I don't think they deserve resentment for it.
I don't blame my parents for what they fed me as a child, because they didn't have a lot of money or a lot of time (my mom worked midnight shifts to be home with us during the day, dad worked day shifts to be home with us at night). But they tried to give us healthy things when they could. We always had fruit and vegetables. And actually, a lot of what we ate was home-made because it was cheaper, so it might have been marginally healthier than the store-bought stuff. But I do remember things like Kraft Dinner, Alphaghetti, ice-cream, chocolate-covered granola bars, sugary juice, Lunchables!... etc. I could never eat those things now because I've become very sensitive to sweet or salty things since eliminating them, to the point that I don't even crave or enjoy them anymore.
What's interesting to me, though, and a little off topic, is that me and my brother were polar opposites. I was always underweight, he was always overweight. Doctors did ask my mother what she was feeding him, but then you have to wonder, what about the other child who lives in the same house and eats the exact same foods and can't gain weight? I eliminated processed foods from my diet in my early teen years, but my brother never did. And yet I get acne, but my brother does not. It seems kind of backwards and just makes me that there's more to it than just what you eat or did eat in the past. But I have no idea. It's just odd.
My mum did follow a special diet when she was pregnant with me though, because she had gestational diabetes, so she did the finger-pricking and following a meal plan and everything, and she also quit smoking while she was pregnant with me. When she got pregnant with my brother, I think she was seeing a new doctor and he told her not to bother with the diabetic diet, so I often wonder if that had an impact. My mother never had diabetes when she wasn't pregnant and I've had my blood sugars tested quite a few times and they're normal, but some of my extended family do have diabetes.
In my first post, I said I was upset they didn't 'force' me to eat my vegitables. It has nothing to do with WHAT they fed me, it was that they didn't try and be strict with getting me to eat better. I was constantly getting sick and have been extremely underweight my whole life. Yes, my parents provided me with what they knew i'd like -BUT that is irresponsible in the fact that they should have had least known in some capasity that, that much junk food was bad. And it had nothing to do with 'scraping by' or providing what they possibly could - I had my fair share of fast food, ordered pizza, hot chocolate and donuts and stuff like that.... it was just easier for my mom to open a box of kraft dinner even though she was a stay at home mom.
It's about the lack of rules and leniancy, not necessarily the 'food'.
I can definitely understand that. I guess I'm just thinking of my parents, who never forced us to eat anything and did buy a fair bit of 'junk', and the reasons they did that. I know that they didn't do it out of carelessness, they did it because they were short on time and money, and the reason my parents never forced vegetables upon me or my brother (although I always ate them gladly even without being forced) was because my dad had really bad experiences being forced to eat his vegetables as a child, where his mother would force him to sit at the table until he finished his plate even if it meant he was sick. I just look at their histories and their living situations at the time and think it makes perfect sense that they fed us the way they did. It would have been nice to grow up on organic, all-natural foods, but there's no way we could have. However you're correct, it makes a huge difference when a parent does it out of necessity or not knowing any better compared to when they do it out of just not being mindful.
