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I lose weight when traveling to Europe even though I cook all my food both in the US and Europe. What I have noticed is that buying from my local farmers marke

I lose weight when traveling to Europe even though I cook all my food both in the US and Europe. What I have noticed is that buying from my local farmers market has helped a ton in the U.S. I still get some staples from the supermarket, but stuff like meat only comes from the farmers market now, and even if it might be significantly more expensive, it’s absolutely worth it because my health is doing so much better (even if I couldn’t objectively link it to this change, I wouldn’t be surprised that eating chicken that was raised running in an open farm and eating wild food, that I have seen with my own eyes is better for me than chicken living in their and thousands of other chicken’s feces).

hombre_fatal 4y ago
I travel a lot and find it hard to maintain the same exact diet even though I cook 95% of my meals at home. Even just between US cities, there are different foods at the grocery store at different price points that would make it unreasonable to stick to an identical diet, so it's hard for me to believe that everyone in these anecdotes has identical intercontinental diets. Yet these anecdotes are never about obvious differences that could explain large calories swings. They always focus on cocksure yet vague claims about chemicals and additives. It reminds me of people claiming that switching from corn syrup to cane sugar Coca-Cola, a magical elixir, when they traveled to Mexico must obviously be the responsible for some bodily change they allegedly experienced with no further interest in any competing explanation.