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healthy_eatingHi and welcome to healthy_eating! I hope we build a really great community of support here. To do that, let's start with some introductions!
Here's a suggestion for introducing yourself. You can use all, some, or none of this :)
What you want to be called:
What gender/pronouns you want used:
Location:
What's your favorite food(s):
What's your main healthy eating goal:
What do you want to get out of this community:
One fact about yourself:
healthy_eating! I hope we build a really great community of support here. To do that, let's start with some introductions!Here's a suggestion for introducing yourself. You can use all, some, or none of this :)
What you want to be called:
What gender/pronouns you want used:
Location:
What's your favorite food(s):
What's your main healthy eating goal:
What do you want to get out of this community:
One fact about yourself:
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Date: 2011-08-02 07:12 pm (UTC)What you want to be called: panda! :)
What gender/pronouns you want used: she/her
Location: United States
What's your favorite food(s): hmmm, this is tough. Tiramisu?
What's your main healthy eating goal: I want to eat more fresh fruits and veggies, and also track what I eat.
What do you want to get out of this community: support for reaching my goals.
One fact about yourself: I'm a really good cook, but I don't often use recipes, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to share my healthy eating recipes or not.
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Date: 2011-08-02 07:23 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: Zie/hir. She/her won't offend me, but I do like my neutral pronouns.
Location: Usually, Wales.
What's your favorite food(s): When I'm cooking for myself, chilli. When my dad's cooking for me, roast potatoes.
What's your main healthy eating goal: I should eat more fruit/veg, in future, but at first I just want to be able to track what I eat.
What do you want to get out of this community: Reminders to track my food, mostly, to begin with!
One fact about yourself: I... can't really cook. At all. Unless it involves eggs or stirfry. Then I'm good.
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Date: 2011-08-02 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 07:27 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: sie/hir
Location: Southern California, USA
What's your favorite food(s): Crisp apples and anything bread-like.
What's your main healthy eating goal: I would like to be more enthusiastic about food. Setting aside time to cook and appreciate meals would be nice, too.
What do you want to get out of this community: Just that; community. I'm also hopeful that I'll find others that share my philosophy of "eat what you like in a manner that makes you like how you eat."
One fact about yourself: I used to work in the kitchen of my family's restaurant. I am very good at producing large amounts of baked goods and appetizers; not so much anything else.
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Date: 2011-08-02 08:15 pm (UTC)I think this is a good philosophy. I'm not quite there yet though sadly.
And i did not know that about you!
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Date: 2011-08-02 09:54 pm (UTC)Who is? I like to keep ideals around, though. Keeps me on the straight and narrow. ;)
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Date: 2011-08-02 07:34 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: I'm still working on it, but I usually go by female pronouns.
Location: Italy.
What's your favorite food(s): Pizza, pasta.
What's your main healthy eating goal: I want to keep a schedule of what and when I'm eating.
What do you want to get out of this community: Being able to share my goal with other people, encourage and being encouraged back <3
One fact about yourself: I often forget to eat /o\
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Date: 2011-08-02 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 08:19 pm (UTC)*hugs you back*
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Date: 2011-08-02 07:34 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: female
Location: New York
What's your favorite food(s): Honestly? I just really am not okay with food. There are things I dislike less than others, but it seems weird calling that a 'favorite.' My food issues are long and complicated.
What's your main healthy eating goal: Actually eating, because generally I don't.
What do you want to get out of this community: I am really mostly here out of curiosity, since I study nutrition for school (I'm a nursing student) and I read a lot of nutrition-related articles and am heavily involved in promoting that health at every size really means EVERY SIZE around the internet. Since a lot of people forget that. So mostly I just want to gain a look at other people's perspectives!
OH. And thoughts on eating good food while very poor, because damn but I can't afford anything fresh no matter how much I want it.
One fact about yourself: I have never had an appetite; I have inborn errors of metabolism that literally cause me to go without a drive to consume food. I have to monitor my blood sugar in order to know when to eat.
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Date: 2011-08-02 08:20 pm (UTC)a lot of people do forget that. :\
And thoughts on eating good food while very poor, because damn but I can't afford anything fresh no matter how much I want it.
This is a good thing to discuss *nods*
I'm sorry about the appetite thing. That must suck :(
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Date: 2011-08-02 08:01 pm (UTC)What you want to be called: Annie
What gender/pronouns you want used: Female/feminine pronouns
Location: Alaska
What's your favorite food(s): I like a lot of different things, but one thing I've eaten a lot of the past year is polenta.
What's your main healthy eating goal: To stay healthy. And eat. Possibly even get my sister to eat. (We are not what you would call great at remembering to eat. It's an issue.)
What do you want to get out of this community: Right now, I need a place to stick what I'm eating, possibly to ask for advice on what to feed my family, and recipes.
One fact about yourself: I'm a good cook, but my skills have rusted a bit after 4 years of dorm cooking. (I know a lot of recipes to cook in the microwave at this point. And am halfway tempted to buy another microwave cookbook. Because spoons and sanity are sometimes limited.)
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Date: 2011-08-02 08:21 pm (UTC)Spoons are often limited, which makes cooking hard. *Hugs*
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Date: 2011-08-02 11:24 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: Female.
Location: USA.
What's your favorite food(s): Blue crab. I'm also a huuuge fan of good pho, but I'm picky about what constitutes "good."
What's your main healthy eating goal: Uh, eating, period. Due to depression + appetite-suppressing meds, my appetite has taken a nosedive in the last year, and I lost a lot of weight. (I'll never mention pounds or anything like that, though; weight gain is a goal, but I don't have to talk about it here.) I'm doing better than I was at my lowest, but I could still really use some accountability about eating enough food every day.
What do you want to get out of this community: See above re: accountability. Also to just get a sense of how other people find ways to eat well, and to learn stuff--good recipes, someone mentioned cooking on a budget above, etc.
One fact about yourself: When I was a kid, I used to eat cicadas? Yeah, I know. No wonder I'm messed up now. ;)
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Date: 2011-08-02 11:33 pm (UTC)Ugh appetite suppressing meds are the worst :( I was on effexor for a couple years and it blew. *hugs*
I would be happy to poke you about eating enough. *nods*
Ahaaahahaaa, that explains everything ;))))
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Date: 2011-08-03 03:12 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: she/her
Location: USA, Mississippi
What's your favorite food(s): Ooh, that's hard. I love cooking everything practically. I guess my current favorite is spicy coconut soup with mushrooms and tofu.
What's your main healthy eating goal: A regular eating schedule at the least and a reminder for more fruits and veggies whilst I'm getting the kitchen cleaned at least. At that point, when I'm able to cook at home, I'll reassess.
What do you want to get out of this community: Community and support mostly.
One fact about yourself: I have problems maintaining enough salts in my diet and complex carbs are the bane of my existence.
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Date: 2011-08-04 10:11 pm (UTC)how long will it take to get the kitchen cleared out?
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Date: 2011-08-05 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-03 07:55 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: I'm considering zie/hir, but she/her is also fine for now.
Location: The United States, currently staying with my mom in Florida but soon to be returning to somewhere in the middle bits.
What's your favorite food(s): Too many to name. Food is one of my favorite things ever.
What's your main healthy eating goal: To stay a vegetarian and remember to eat basically well-balanced meals at least once a day, even when I'm no longer living with my mom, who is a gourmet chef who enjoys feeding me.
What do you want to get out of this community: Basically, I'm hoping that it helps me remember that I'm supposed to be eating more than plain pasta and scrambled eggs and endless amounts of coffee.
One fact about yourself: I'm a very, very limited cook, but my mom is an excellent professional chef, so I've got a lot of background in complicated food, and a have a weirdly specific skill set dating back to the days when she was a pastry chef making wedding cakes in our kitchen and enlisting me to help fold things and temper eggs and crumb coat and all of that.
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Date: 2011-08-04 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-04 09:55 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: Female is fine, I'm more androgynous/female than fully androgynous.
Location: Somewhere in the US
What's your favorite food(s): Pasta, chocolate, soup, cookies, Mexican, Italian, Thai. Do not be fooled by this list. In any way.
What's your main healthy eating goal: To gain weight is the long-term, at this rate never going to happen goal. In the mean time, just trying to learn the concept of enjoying food, whenever and wherever and however.
What do you want to get out of this community: Mostly? Encouragement to just freakin' EAT, dammit. I have this tendency to not eat for myself, but if other people want me to eat, then dammit I better do it so I don't upset them!
One fact about yourself: According to everyone, I'm an excellent chef (sure hope so, I've been doing it for over eight years). And I like to cook most of the time. And then I go "No, you only have ____ time to eat, that is NOT ENOUGH time, you don't get to eat." Sigh.
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Date: 2011-08-04 10:00 pm (UTC)Note to everyone else: I dragged this shy creature out of her cave to participate in this community because I love the atmosphere here and think it will do her good. I suggest hassling her lots. ;)
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Date: 2011-08-04 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-04 10:10 pm (UTC)and lots of people here need help remembering to eat, so you are in good company :)
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Date: 2011-08-23 11:32 pm (UTC)What you want to be called: Ellie
What gender/pronouns you want used: she or ze
Location: somewhere that just got earthquaked
What's your favorite food(s): Mom makes this marinated grilled pork that's got Italian dressing in the marinade, and boil the marinade and it turns into sauce to go over rice and peas, and mmmmm.
What's your main healthy eating goal: Dad's hypothesis is that the reason I get dizzy so much is I'm not eating right. So, y'know, not getting dizzy so much.
What do you want to get out of this community: Accountability.
One fact about yourself: I love to cook, I just rarely have time and inclination simultaneously.
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Date: 2011-08-27 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 08:16 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: Female
Location: Texas, USA
What's your favorite food(s): french fries, sweets, fast food
What's your main healthy eating goal: To pay attention to what I eat and stop bored eating.
What do you want to get out of this community: Accountability.
One fact about yourself: I tend to turn to pre-made foods like TV dinners and fast food. I can cook and follow recipes, but if I have to buy something not in my pantry....it's probably not going to happen.
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Date: 2011-08-27 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-27 02:27 pm (UTC)What gender/pronouns you want used: she/her
Location: mid-atlantic US
What's your favorite food(s): many things, right now turkey and swiss with pickles
What's your main healthy eating goal: So this community is perfect timing. I live alone so I tend to do microwave meals or rice and beans when I bother to cook. When I don't, it's cereal or I don't eat. So my goal is to change my relationship with food so I don't see preparing food as a skipable chore but as a worthy use of my time.
What do you want to get out of this community: Accountability, support, and a way to track what I eat. I like food and eating, I just lack motivation to cook for myself.
One fact about yourself: I bought my first cookbook last week with changing how I eat in mind. I nearly ran away screaming from the cookbook shelf because it was overwhelming and had to force myself back.
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Date: 2011-08-27 02:52 pm (UTC)There are an intimidatingly large number of cookbooks out there, it's true. Which one did you come away with?
Also is that Deif in your icon??? &Deif;! I really need to upload some dS icons. :3
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Date: 2011-08-27 03:11 pm (UTC)It is Dief! I'm not sure if he's an inspiration or a warning of the perils of poor eating habits in the big city.
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Date: 2011-08-27 03:16 pm (UTC)You mean stolen donuts, hoagies, pizza slices, and candy from old ladies do not a balanced diet make? Deif is shocked, shocked I tell you! :D
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Date: 2011-08-28 10:14 pm (UTC)I am female.
Philadelphia or West Chester would do as location.
I most enjoy lo mein.
My goal is to not get stomachaches after I eat.
From this community, I'd like to open my mind to the idea eating = good.
You might like to know I'm a musician.
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Date: 2011-08-28 10:18 pm (UTC)I think working on the idea that eating = good is something a lot of people in this comm can identify with.
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Date: 2011-08-29 12:54 am (UTC)It's hard to remember that, especially when you eat something bad by accident.