I’m an American living in America who has been overweight all of my life. I’m talking from the high chair video footages of a chunky monkey baby me, falling asleep face first into a bowl of cake. I would be lucky to make 14k a year so I have to work on a low budget. I’m going to try and eat a vegan lifestyle where I rarely splurge but it’s going to be hard as hell if not impossible.
My dad has never really helped me with my diets. I have never gotten him to buy unbleached sugar or flour. I can’t get him to buy reasonable stuff. He doesn’t like to use his reading glasses, and he can’t read without them, so generally he just buys wtf ever he wants to without any concern for anything at all. He’s gone most of the time at his girlfriend’s place and when he returns he brings with him meat filled foods that are just delicious and I have a hard time not wanting to eat them.
My biggest problem with veganism is that I can’t do salads. I just don’t like dressings or other such additives and when I try to eat salads the texture and blandness of the salad activates my gag reflex. I’m autistic so certain textures and flavors create a visceral reaction.
I’m choking down the Banapple Sauce concoction I just made. I de-cored some apples and I threw them into a blender. Then I added a bit of milk to help the blender do it’s thing. Then I ripped up bananas and just chucked it into the mix. The result is banana flavored apple sauce. It’s ok, but I have to drink it slowly to prevent the gag reflexes.
If I didn’t weigh 180 and quickly approaching 200 pounds I wouldn’t be trying to enact such a radical dietary change. I don’t know any other dietary change that I can make that will suddenly make a profoundly beneficial life impact in a short time. I’ve never been to the doctor in the past 5 years. 5 years ago I went because I had dislocated a knee. I’ve never been on a prescription drug before. Don’t plan on starting. I’m showing signs of being hypoglycemic as not eating can cause me to get dizzy and want to pass out.
I need to take control of my health asap. My lunch break is only 30 minutes. I regularly have to go 4 hours till I get my first break or lunch and by then I’m light headed. I have a girlfriend but she’s just about the same weight and everything I am. She suffers from a whole range of illness’. I want to get healthy so that I can help augment what ever new habits I get into her living style.
Problem is I really don’t know many vegan recipies and the meat substitutes I’ve had were just as nasty as they were tough.
I did try going on a whole foods and organic lifestyle years ago. Really didn’t have much of a benefit and a month or 2 later I moved in with room mates that I didn’t realize weren’t going to pay their share of the rent and couldn’t really afford to buy my own food at that point.
I don’t have a whole foods or anything like that. I live in a population of 70k people roughly, we have wal-mart, target, H.E.B. and that’s just about the major markets we have for food.
Sorry for the long intro but… I’m at my wits end, I can’t do it by myself, and I have no one currently in my life to really help me start on the right track.