Frustrated With Food Labelling

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This is going to be a post dripping with frustration.

Want to continue anyway? Ok, you've been warned.

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It's so damn frustrating that I can't stop labelling foods as " good " or

" bad " . If I don't label them " fattening " or " non-fattening " I label them

" healthy " and " unhealthy " and the worst of all is: IE encourages eating

" healthy foods " (nothing wrong with healthy eating, don't get me wrong)

because " we have to respect our bodies " and I can't cope with that.

Either that or my sense of " healthy and unhealthy " is completely

twisted. I bet if people on here would post some meals they consider

" healthy " I'd rule out 90% of the condiments as " UNHEALTHY " in less than

5 seconds!

I ate only unhealthy stuff during the last time and I'M HATING IT. I

also drank too much alcohol (you know that one bottle of beer or one

glass of wine a day) and coffee with " bad stuff in it " (cocoa powder or

chocolate pearls and lots of milk).

And the worst is this sentence that is somehow fixed in my brain: " If it

tastes REALLY good, it CAN'T BE HEALTHY! "

And:

" If it's REALLY satisfying, it CAN'T BE HEALTHY! "

Because healthy food doesn't taste good and is not satisfying. That's

what 25 and more years of dieting taught me well.

Yes, apples are tasting good when it's time for apples and then they're

satisfying but I think you all know that this is not what this post is

about.

Let's look about our dinner this evening: left over rice with arrabiata

sauce, black olives, white beans and some goat's cheese. Totally YUM!

and satisfying but it's so unhealthy in my opinion.

the rice: it was white basmati, not whole grain, therefore unhealthy

black olives: only small amounts because of " good fats " allowed

goat's cheese: totally unnecessary, salty, fatty and unhealthy

the sauce: store baught and salty suff, unhealthy

the white beans: the only thing I'd consider healthy

So what would have been ok? Self-made sauce, brown rice (and less of

it), more beans, no cheese and only a few olives as decoration.

Would it have been as YUM! and satisfying? NO! Because I ate stuff like

this before and it left me totally frustrated.

It feels like there is no " real match " . Either I eat something

satisfying and have to deal with a bad conscience or I eat something I

consider " healthy " and it leaves me with this " diety " feeling.

Oh yes, if we " love our bodies " , we SHOULD crave healthy foods and we

SHOULD omit the unhealthy stuff because we " love our bodies " .[1]

I still don't get the trick.

My view of what is " healthy " or " unhealthy " food seems to be really

warped from hanging out at vegan and raw-vegan communities and reading

books quite a good deal. I just realised (once more) that my sense of

" healthy " and " unhealthy " is still dominated by " fattening " and

" non-fattening " , but this is by far not the only demon I have to deal

with. BY FAR. I'd rather eat a full fat plain soy yoghurt than a

fat-free, sugar-free dairy yoghurt and I'd go all animal-free regarding

food if I could afford all the stuff that makes the vegan food yummie

(e. g. all these expensive nuts and the condiments necessary to cook

some of the fancy foods).

And now I crave something sweet as usually after dinner. ARRRRGH.

I bet that some of you have this problem or had it in the past. How do

you deal with it?

Regards

s.

[1] Yes, I have to admit that I'm dripping with sarcasm here. I'm

frustrated beyond good or bad right now.