Yeah, I avoid sites with food tracking on principle. I always feel like they're judging me, and I've got enough food-related neuroses as it is.
Really, I've found the best way to make myself eat healthy is to allow myself to eat whatever the hell I want, and sneak the healthy shit in subtly, in addition to cheeseburgers and cake and WTFever. Because inevitably, my body will go, "Hey! This healthy stuff is pretty awesome, and it makes us feel better! More of that!" and then I'll start having major salad cravings, and bugging my uncle to bring me home baby carrots and whole grains and the like. And then I just naturally start cutting down on the junk food without actually trying.
But then, this only seems to work when I'm in a place of food security. If I start restricting my diet, my body rebels because it thinks I'm returning to the days of only being able to afford one meal a day, if that, and then it starts clamoring for cheeseburgers and pizza and ice cream, because obviously I am starving and therefore I need ALL THE CALORIES. So, for me, the food logs are actually counterproductive, because I just end up getting more neurotic about food and not giving my body what it's asking for until I snap and eat an entire pizza. And then lie about it in my food diary.
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Really, I've found the best way to make myself eat healthy is to allow myself to eat whatever the hell I want, and sneak the healthy shit in subtly, in addition to cheeseburgers and cake and WTFever. Because inevitably, my body will go, "Hey! This healthy stuff is pretty awesome, and it makes us feel better! More of that!" and then I'll start having major salad cravings, and bugging my uncle to bring me home baby carrots and whole grains and the like. And then I just naturally start cutting down on the junk food without actually trying.
But then, this only seems to work when I'm in a place of food security. If I start restricting my diet, my body rebels because it thinks I'm returning to the days of only being able to afford one meal a day, if that, and then it starts clamoring for cheeseburgers and pizza and ice cream, because obviously I am starving and therefore I need ALL THE CALORIES. So, for me, the food logs are actually counterproductive, because I just end up getting more neurotic about food and not giving my body what it's asking for until I snap and eat an entire pizza. And then lie about it in my food diary.