"If you're eating food from a box, from a can or from any package you're eating fucking salt!"

[betsuni]

12. I don't usually eat processed food because of this. The salt. The fucking salt.

When I fall off the wagon and start eating processed food, my appearance changes. When I'm careful and make all my own food, people think I've lost a lot of weight. Well, no, I haven't been dieting, I just stopped eating anything processed. I go back to my normal weight and appearance quickly. I don't get that feeling of being over full, then low blood sugar sudden hunger hours later and craving just the food that is giving you trouble, the grogginess, the bloated stomach and stomachaches, the thirst in the morning.

It's not the food itself, it's the salt and sugar and whatever else is in there. I make fried chicken, I can eat quite a lot and feel fine. Fast food chicken, can't eat that much without the over-full feeling and bloat. If I drink a soda my fingers bloat. People who don't get obvious symptoms don't connect diet with health problems, probably.

I find it sort of fascinating how with fast food and progressed food, they somehow suck all the flavor and nutrients out of the food and then throw salt, sugar, fats and preservatives in there so it tastes bland and artificially flavorful at the same time.