I would say the amount of depression, sadness and anxiety I have experienced has carpet bombed my former natural tendency to have an ego about stuff.
Things have been broken deep down in me from it but the silver lining is I don’t obnoxiously over prioritize myself by default!
Gotta have pride to lose it!
I’m in the process of trying to lose a little weight to get my BMI a comfortable distance below the “Overweight” tier. That requires fighting natural urges to eat anything and everything available because of evolving in an environment where food was hard-won or otherwise scarce.
And yet, I wouldn’t say I’ve fully overcome the programming because my body and hindbrain literally scream at me and start bargaining every time I skip a snack, but it seems to be working.
Please, I beg you, invest in https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ayurvedic-healing-a-comprehensive-guide
& do the experiment of making yourself pairs of dishes with 1/2 of each pair being the most-pacifying-for-your-metabolism ingredients & the other being the most-aggravating-for-your-metabolism.
The experience was shocking as hell for me, when I did it.
It may identify the “system” underlying what ingredients you need to understand, in order to liberate your healing into your life.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,
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My diet is fine. You may have missed that I’m cutting out things that qualify as snacks. Things whose nutritional content is limited and are mostly fat and carbohydrates, including those commonly eaten right after what might otherwise be a sensible meal.
I’m talking biscuits (cookies), cakes and the like. I already don’t eat crisps (chips) nor do I drink anything with fizz or sugar (or both).
If I can’t get to a good weight doing just that, I might look into alternative sources of nutrition and superfoods, but those tend to cost the sort of money that I can ill afford to spend.
Also, I looked at the blurb for that book and it claims that it contains recipes that will “treat” cancer. That’s weasel wording to avoid being called snake oil, while at the same time convincing the gullible that it contains a cure, so you’ll forgive me if I give it a miss.
Reproduce or socialize. I have very little desire to do either.
Just like Anthony Bourdain said
“I understand there’s a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.”
I too have to avoid giving up and being that guy.
Took me a minute to realize this is about human behaviour and not actual programming.
I would probably say not needing to fill a social ‘need’ to be sane in life. I enjoy my time alone more than with others.
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