JoTheGeek's Journal, 12 Jan 22

In my opinion, unprocessed food is exactly what you should be eating if you're looking for healthy options 😊 

Hi Jo, Married life is bliss if you have the right person. Be happy and safe. Make the very best of each other and glow you both deserve the joy and happiness over Wedded bliss. Merry Mel 🤩.  

Thanks Mel! We're doing our best, even though at the moment we're self isolating in different parts of the house because I have COVID! 

I think so too, Kitty, I'm just very lazy! Currently just microwaving some butternut squash as a snack - very strange but I'm hungry haha! 

Oh no, hope you get better sooon. What a funny start to Wedded bliss. But you will both laugh at this later in a few months time. Your Wedding will be stronger for it. Happy days a head Jo. Love Merry Mel ❤  

I've been reading alot about this too as trying veganury to kick start my healthy eating. Some of the documentaries out there about processed meat and food are terrifying!  

Just make simple things yourself. For example i just baked fresh sea bass fillets in a foil parcel with butter, lemon and parsley. 15 mins at 180deg. Green beans boiled for eight mins. Yesterdays leftover mashed potato microwaved for three mins. Quick, clean, easy. Fresh, real stuff that YOU cook is so much better than reheating a factory slurp into a plastic tub!! 

I absolutely think minimally processed is the right way to go. It's better for your gut biome too and linked to all sorts of health benefits. Many processed foods are designed to make you want to eat more of them, for obvious reasons! Agree with try try and kitty, there are plenty of simple ways to make meals from scratch and the more you experiment the more you will come to know your own 'hacks' and reliable favourites. Hope you are not suffering too much with Covid 

the other thing is gyo. grow your own. I have a decent garden with a poly tunnel . so last year we started to grow more. bought an extra freezer and now most of what we eat is either fresh.... or frozen from our own garden. so less processing... and less food miles... ( better for the planet). plus. we grew it. we know what was put on it... or not. and it tastes soooooo much better.  

I think the secret is to: 1 - Drastically reduce foods that cause insuline spikes (this depends from person to person). Treat sugar like alcohol - i.e., as a poison. Beware that wheat and other cereals are decomposed into glucose and case insuline spikes too. 2 - Remove vast majority of processed foods (they have high absorption rates, additives, added sugar). can't find a good thing about them 3 - Eat protein from different sources. It's the only macro-nutrient our body really needs. Heavily related to satiety. 4- Beware of stress. THis affects how the whole body handles / burns nutrients. Cortisol has a major impact in most body systems 5 - Sleep well - related to point 4. 6 - Be active. Equivalent 1h walking a day. I personally ban all sugars and insuline-causing carbs, maximise raw food. If I can't name all ingredients in a product by looking at it, I don't eat it. Your def on the right way ! 

Oh.. and avoid most vegetable fats (except cold pressed ones. I keep to olive oil and coconut oil). They are extremelly inflamatory.