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I've lost 60kg in the last 3 years, so I know a little about weight loss. I found it REALLY hard in modern society. I could do it as I am well off, but it is v

I've lost 60kg in the last 3 years, so I know a little about weight loss. I found it REALLY hard in modern society. I could do it as I am well off, but it is very difficult to eat cheaply and healthily. Many people have appetites which lead to them only wanting to eat a healthy about of food. If you are like that, great! I, like many other people, do not. I'm hungry all the time and almost any food it is easy to get contains a huge amount of unfilling but tasty calories.

aceoflulu 9y ago
>it is very difficult to eat cheaply and healthily Word. It simply is impossible to eat cheaply and healthily. Cheap or even reasonably priced food is usually rubbish or requires so much cooking that the savings on the food itself are countered by the price of cooking it.
- mrob 9y ago
  >Cheap or even reasonably priced food is usually rubbish or requires so much cooking that the savings on the food itself are countered by the price of cooking it. A good electric pressure cooker can cook things very efficiently. It's even better than a traditional pressure cooker because it's insulated. You can cook dried beans with it easily, and dried beans are cheap. It's good for rice too, which is also cheap. Add some frozen vegetables and eggs and you have a reasonably cheap and healthy diet.
  - ashark 9y ago
    Congrats if you find a spouse who's onboard with eating, and feeding your kids, rice and beans for a significant percentage of your dinners and lunches, unless you're so poor the alternative is starving. Staying healthy solo is easy. Staying healthy as a family is hard.
    - bamboozled 9y ago
      Works for most of the third world, and that's where Western people people go for holidays and come home and talk about how good the food is. Thinking about places like: Mexico, India, Sri-Lanka.
  - seanmcdirmid 9y ago
    That pressure cooker is around $120 though if it’s the one I’m thinking about. Also, we use it mostly for baby food (well, his solids) and still stir fry most of our own meals. People shouldn’t underestimate stir frying: you can take a half a bag of baby spinach ($2/bag, cheaper if you can find some full leafs in good condition, but hard to do that) and cook it with a dab of sesame oil and it comes out pretty good. And really, the hardest part of eating well is definitely the cost, but also the knowledge (what I know today could have made college-me much more effective!).

aceoflulu 9y ago

>it is very difficult to eat cheaply and healthily Word. It simply is impossible to eat cheaply and healthily. Cheap or even reasonably priced food is usually rubbish or requires so much cooking that the savings on the food itself are countered by the price of cooking it.

mrob 9y ago
>Cheap or even reasonably priced food is usually rubbish or requires so much cooking that the savings on the food itself are countered by the price of cooking it. A good electric pressure cooker can cook things very efficiently. It's even better than a traditional pressure cooker because it's insulated. You can cook dried beans with it easily, and dried beans are cheap. It's good for rice too, which is also cheap. Add some frozen vegetables and eggs and you have a reasonably cheap and healthy diet.
- ashark 9y ago
  Congrats if you find a spouse who's onboard with eating, and feeding your kids, rice and beans for a significant percentage of your dinners and lunches, unless you're so poor the alternative is starving. Staying healthy solo is easy. Staying healthy as a family is hard.
  - bamboozled 9y ago
    Works for most of the third world, and that's where Western people people go for holidays and come home and talk about how good the food is. Thinking about places like: Mexico, India, Sri-Lanka.
- seanmcdirmid 9y ago
  That pressure cooker is around $120 though if it’s the one I’m thinking about. Also, we use it mostly for baby food (well, his solids) and still stir fry most of our own meals. People shouldn’t underestimate stir frying: you can take a half a bag of baby spinach ($2/bag, cheaper if you can find some full leafs in good condition, but hard to do that) and cook it with a dab of sesame oil and it comes out pretty good. And really, the hardest part of eating well is definitely the cost, but also the knowledge (what I know today could have made college-me much more effective!).