Paleo? Nutrition? Looking for/creating a community.

[0jack]

Anyone else doing paleo eating?  I'm not interested in being fanatical about it, or in losing weight, but there's a good chance it could be really good for my health. I have to be very careful about discussing this stuff due to my ED issues. While I'm working on my fitness level, I'm still a HAES advocate (Health At Every Size).

Is anyone interested in an "Alternative Eating" community? By which I mean all kinds of alternatives. I'm gluten free, allergic to soy, you name it. I'd love a community about adjusting to affordable, convenient alternatives that suit my diet.  Again, no weight loss, no preaching, just substitutions and short cuts and things that would make life easier. If there is one, great! If not, I'd be happy to do a community for it.

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[0jack]

Okay, so I've thought about this A LOT. I need to lose about 50# before I feel "right" in my body (it's no different to me than any other kind of body-centered dysphoria because it's not about the weight, it's because I don't feel like me, I feel like a fraud, etc.) and my girlfriend, whom I love, cannot bear ANY discussion of weight-loss or dieting, even to the point of struggling with talk of going gluten-free to prevent documented health problems. So, what the hell to do when one of us (who has a hx of ED and BDD) wants to talk about things around the other (who gets upset at the slightest discussion of weight issues)?

First, putting it behind a cut is the best general step for us--if it's talk about anything to do with controlling portions, comparing today's weight to yesterday's, it has to go behind the cut.

For some people, you can't mention the calorie count of a dish, or your weight. I think that's highly counterproductive, but that's where they're at. Because we're so socially trained to talk about weight and weightloss in certain value terms (I only lost 2# this week, this dish is naughty because it has 300cal/portion, I "will make up for it next week" because I had an ice cream cone), it's hard to control how people discuss their weight and weight loss unless you're in a group that has worked extensively on altering their relationship with food and weight. So. Cut Tags.