Weight loss and cooking
Mar. 10th, 2005 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI seem to have lost nearly a stone (depending on how you read the scales). Wow,
that's good. Though I feel sort of guilty because I hadn't yet started being really
good, I was still intending to do that, really soon now.
Perhaps the perfect sort of food is the good but not great, because boring food you feel you deserve a bit more of, and great food you think "Oh well, I can manage a bit more. When'll I want to do that again?"
Perhaps walking to town a lot helps, I don't know.
But thinking about it, I am now more likely to think "No, I couldn't" rather than "A bit more wouldn't hurt, it's only once" outside mealtimes. Which is probably the defining factor. Though my mealtimes are completely to pot, as I generally have a sandwich at work at about 11.30, and then not have time before $society and either grab takeaway, or cook something at midnight:30.
And having my own personal kitchen with a big fridge and freezer is good, because it's approaching trivial to produce reasonable sort of food...
Interestingly, I still think of myself as "can't cook" but that has moved on. Once "can't cook" was "could pick things up and eat them, but couldn't make a sandwich". Later, was "could heat things in microwave or oven, but couldn't make something". Now I can put together raw ingredients in a variety of ways, but still can't reliably (1) make it look good or (2) have a very wide repetoire of ideas.
that's good. Though I feel sort of guilty because I hadn't yet started being really
good, I was still intending to do that, really soon now.
Perhaps the perfect sort of food is the good but not great, because boring food you feel you deserve a bit more of, and great food you think "Oh well, I can manage a bit more. When'll I want to do that again?"
Perhaps walking to town a lot helps, I don't know.
But thinking about it, I am now more likely to think "No, I couldn't" rather than "A bit more wouldn't hurt, it's only once" outside mealtimes. Which is probably the defining factor. Though my mealtimes are completely to pot, as I generally have a sandwich at work at about 11.30, and then not have time before $society and either grab takeaway, or cook something at midnight:30.
And having my own personal kitchen with a big fridge and freezer is good, because it's approaching trivial to produce reasonable sort of food...
Interestingly, I still think of myself as "can't cook" but that has moved on. Once "can't cook" was "could pick things up and eat them, but couldn't make a sandwich". Later, was "could heat things in microwave or oven, but couldn't make something". Now I can put together raw ingredients in a variety of ways, but still can't reliably (1) make it look good or (2) have a very wide repetoire of ideas.