Getting towards the end of the semester and all the associated stress and anxiety is already kicking in. Just want to be done with it all... My diet sucks - I think that's why I have such low energy/tired all the time. Looking for tips on controlling my food intake, or some kind of non-extreme diet that I can do with my (low) budget. On a brighter note, finally got back to my mini-ethnographies/blogging, although school tends to slow me down, I'm going to try and get in the habit of writing something every day, no matter how small/silly. ps. There is almost nothing I look forward to more on the internet than pubski <3
For controlling your intake you should look into logging all of your food and drink on something like myfitnesspal. This is something I should do more often but it could be very helpful in seeing where you're overeating and what you need to eat more of. For cooking and a diet, you should definitely check out a couple of subreddits such as Eat Cheap and Healthy and Meal Prep Sunday.My diet sucks - I think that's why I have such low energy/tired all the time. Looking for tips on controlling my food intake, or some kind of non-extreme diet that I can do with my (low) budget.
Simplest way to control your food intake is to force yourself to cook everything you eat. You'll eat less, because you won't have time, or because you won't always want to cook when you're "hungry" (that is, feel like eating but don't actually need to). This is, obviously, not advice that everyone is in a situation to be able to take. Hope you are.
Hmm, where I'm living for the next three weeks has a pretty crappy kitchen, but maybe once I move out I'll be able to do this. Love cooking. Do you do this? (and if so, how do you survive without snacks!?) I started with myfitnesspal like @ButterflyEffect suggested, but my first impression is that it's a bit slow to find what your eating - which is a hard UX obstacle when you're dealing with so much data - but it harms the experience nonetheless. I'll will test it out until I move, and see if I need to change it up.
If a kitchen has a refrigerator and a working stovetop of any sort, that's enough. Having a microwave helps me a good bit because I can make oatmeal with honey and cinnamon and blueberries in like 90 seconds. I don't use apps because it doesn't seem to help much.