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That's commendable. It's "simple" as in not complicated and easy to understand. It's "difficult" as in it requires an incredible amount of discipline, and poten

That's commendable. It's "simple" as in not complicated and easy to understand. It's "difficult" as in it requires an incredible amount of discipline, and potentially time, compared to the alternative.

crazygringo 4y ago
And as parent pointed out, more expensive. You can easily double or triple your food costs if you're getting most of your calories from organic veggies and non-grain-fed animals.
- Tobias42 4y ago
  You don‘t have to do that. You can buy cheap meat and cheap vegetables. That way you will still eat much healthier than eating ultra-processed stuff, and probably even save money.
voytec 4y ago
> It's "difficult" as in it requires an incredible amount of discipline Maybe at the beginning of this lifestyle it was somewhat difficult and there was some fight inside me (hard not to buy sweets at the store counter etc) but it fairly quickly turned into subconscious, almost mechanical way of doing things. It's similar to addiction detox: when I ditched smoking (after 20+ years), it was hard at the beginning, there was this feeling of lacking something "important" but it diminished over time. There's no way I'd even consider smoking a cigarette or eating sugary and fatty sweets after few years. I stopped being compatible with those things.
- pixl97 4y ago
  Quitting smoking is something most smokers fail at, so not a great thing to generalize. Also I consider smoking far easier these days as a much smaller number of people do it and there is more social friction. We are in the 1960s smoking phase of bad diets. It is hard to escape terrible junk foods at just about any place that serves anything edible.
kitsunesoba 4y ago
> potentially time I believe that time and energy are what many Americans are running in too short of supply on to transition to more wholesome diets. Most have so much on their plates to deal with already that the idea of thinking about additional things they technically don't have to is unappealing, even if it's at the cost of their own health. It's why ultraprocessed foods became so common in the first place. It's just another microcosm of a culture that's obsessed with productivity and has little resembling proper work-life balance.
- vlod 4y ago
  >even if it's at the cost of their own health. It's why ultraprocessed foods became so common in the first place. Agreed.. A thought pattern I've tried to adopt is "Best time to fix your health is today rather than when you've had a heart attack or diagnosed with type-2 diabetes" Too many people are getting health related diseases (because of diet/exercise)

crazygringo 4y ago

And as parent pointed out, more expensive. You can easily double or triple your food costs if you're getting most of your calories from organic veggies and non-grain-fed animals.

Tobias42 4y ago
You don‘t have to do that. You can buy cheap meat and cheap vegetables. That way you will still eat much healthier than eating ultra-processed stuff, and probably even save money.

voytec 4y ago

> It's "difficult" as in it requires an incredible amount of discipline Maybe at the beginning of this lifestyle it was somewhat difficult and there was some fight inside me (hard not to buy sweets at the store counter etc) but it fairly quickly turned into subconscious, almost mechanical way of doing things. It's similar to addiction detox: when I ditched smoking (after 20+ years), it was hard at the beginning, there was this feeling of lacking something "important" but it diminished over time. There's no way I'd even consider smoking a cigarette or eating sugary and fatty sweets after few years. I stopped being compatible with those things.

pixl97 4y ago
Quitting smoking is something most smokers fail at, so not a great thing to generalize. Also I consider smoking far easier these days as a much smaller number of people do it and there is more social friction. We are in the 1960s smoking phase of bad diets. It is hard to escape terrible junk foods at just about any place that serves anything edible.

kitsunesoba 4y ago

> potentially time I believe that time and energy are what many Americans are running in too short of supply on to transition to more wholesome diets. Most have so much on their plates to deal with already that the idea of thinking about additional things they technically don't have to is unappealing, even if it's at the cost of their own health. It's why ultraprocessed foods became so common in the first place. It's just another microcosm of a culture that's obsessed with productivity and has little resembling proper work-life balance.

vlod 4y ago
>even if it's at the cost of their own health. It's why ultraprocessed foods became so common in the first place. Agreed.. A thought pattern I've tried to adopt is "Best time to fix your health is today rather than when you've had a heart attack or diagnosed with type-2 diabetes" Too many people are getting health related diseases (because of diet/exercise)