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juupajaa · 5 years

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Now that I've been here for a week, here's how a typical day in the ward goes, for those who are curious about what happens here:

7.00 I wake up, roll out of my bed and go pee and wash my face and teeth and stuff. If I've slept in, a nurse comes to wake me up at 7.30😪

8.00 I eat breakfast with a nurse, usually still in my pyjamas bc who cares😎 My breakfast is a bowl of porridge, a loaf of bread with butter and a slice of ham or cheese, a yoghurt, a fruit and a glass of milk. To make sure I'm not purging, I have to stay in sight for one hour after eating so up until 9.00 I'm usually reading the paper and drinking coffee in the living room. We also have a morning meeting at this time and meds are given for those who need them.

9.00 I go to my room and do some yoga/stretching or if I'm feeling up for it I do a light workout (I'm trying to quit I swear, but it's so hardddd😧). I get dressed and do my makeup and hair and just chill until lunch if I've no where to be. Sometimes I have some morning appointment at around 10.00, such as psychologist or physiotherapist and they come fetch me from the ward so I don't really even have to remember my appointments, unless they gave me homework. Sometimes we do tests or I have to write some stuff. Very interesting stuff, I've learned a lot about myself here!!

11.30 Lunch, sometimes at the cafeteria, sometimes here in the ward if I'm feeling shy or stressed. Depending on the menu, for lunch I have either 2 average potatoes or a cup of rice/pasta. A cup of meat, fish or chicken. One cup of salad and one tbsp of dressing. A bit of steamed vegetables. One slice of bread with butter and a glass of milk. Again, afterwards I stay in the living room for an hour and do whatever

12.00 cofy time! The best part of the day, I don't know why😇 I just really like how we all just suddenly appear near the kitchen around noon

13.30 a snack wow!! Snack can be anything I like but usually it's either a fruit or a yoghurt. My meal plan says it could even be a pastry, a bar of chocolate or 40grams of candy but hooo boy I ain't that brave yet🐰

14.00 usually some appoitment takes place here, but if not, after my snack I like to go for my allowed 30min walk outside. I can go unsupervised but I have to be back on time. Usually I go to the store and buy cigatettes bc I'm weak.

15.45 dinner, and I'm really at my worst by now and it's getting really grim and I'm sweating and trying to think of escape plans, but listen dork we gotta eat again. For dinner I have two cups of either soup or casserole. Salad with dressing again. Two slices of bread with butter. A glass of milk and a dessert, usually berries or a pudding.

17.00 forward most people get off from work so no more appointments, but now we have some activities at the ward. Sometimes we do health stuff or stretching, we chat about stuff and things, we have a spa day, arts and crafts, whatever we like✌ I'm planning to bake a carrot cake for the ward one of these days and my nurse got money for the shopping list but now I just gotta gather myself and do it hhhhUH😤

19.30 evening snack, which has become surprisingly comforting now, even if back at home I would never even dream of eating after 15.00. This snack includes a slice of bread with butter and a slice of ham or cheese and a yoghurt or a fruit.

Then I usually just chill again until at 21.00 I start to get ready for bed. I take a shower if I need one, brush my teeth and wash my face and go to my room to stretch and write my journal in which I gather the thoughts (healthy and disordered) and feelings I've had during the day and usually I hand it over to my nurse in the morning so they can read it while I eat breakfast again.

22.00 it's quiet time and if I'm really tired I'm already fast asleep 💤

So yeah, that's about it. Everybody's been very nice and I feel really safe and secure here. I'm still in the normalization phase, so my medicine at the moment is just eating food multiple times a day and all the brain work comes once I get my strentgh back and my head starts working better again.

Also, all I had to do to get here was to go to a psychologist and ask to see a psychiatrist, who then directed me here. Not a lot of steps. It costs some money yes (this place is 20€/day) but honestly I don't know how I would ever do this alone. I was so much worse than I even realized and I really hope some of u dorks try getting help too bc this crap is hard as hell and it's such a relief to be here.

Take care peeps 🍵🌺

#ed recovery #ed talk

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ravenwolfie97 · 4 years

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Curry Log #2

1. Plenty-of-Potato Curry

i knocked this one out first because well... potatoes are already in the curry so i might as well boil some more and i mean... it’s just extra potato. they’re almost soft enough to be mashed but i kept the skin on for some texture and extra earthy flavor. also screw “purposefully left unseasoned”, i added salt and that made it even better i went and added some more to eat with the extra curry roux... so i guess i liked it quite a bit

2. Pasta Curry

i made up a bunch of spaghetti and saved a portion of it to be plain specifically for the curry if you’ve have curry udon, it’s not much different from that, except the noodles are a little less soft. the other ingredients really help to give it some texture. also i added a Decent Amount of butter and that really elevated it

3. Toast Curry

i used artesano bread which is basically white bread but fancy the toast tasted surprisingly bitter with the curry? not too much, but it was strange. probably because of the char. definitely my least favorite so far

(sidenote: i did not eat those curries with rice. too many carbs, and also i don’t want to waste too much food)

4. Salad Curry

my salad mix just expired so i had to sift through to find the stuff that wasn’t all gross but it smelled and tasted fine so it was okay i actually didn’t mind it! it was crunchy and a little sweet. if you need more veggies in your curry then this is a way you could do it i guess?

5. Fancy Apple Curry

i just made more curry and unfortunately i made my curry really loose bc i thought it needed extra water for the potatoes to boil in and i did too much and now it’s basically a soup. oh well this tastes pretty much like the Sweet Curry I made in the first batch, which was literally just the curry + apple juice. it’s also just as liquidous. however, the crunchiness of the apple is much nicer for that bit of texture, and it’s not as sweet as pure apple juice. i’m not really a fan of it, though.

6. Sausage Curry

they aren’t the best sausages, mainly because i don’t know what would go best with curry, but i just got some oscar meyer wieners and called that good the flavor certainly isn’t... the best. it doesn’t mesh well with the curry flavor, and it’s also pretty sweet? the rubberiness of the dogs doesn’t help much either - i think a real sausage with an actual casing would be much nicer, and give it a little bit of a needed crunch

7. Bean Medley Curry

(i apparently neglected to get a picture Whoops)

i used baked beans bc it’s got a flavorful sauce and it went with the hot dogs the sauce mellowed out the spice a little bit, and the extra tang is still tasty. good way to get extra vegetarian protein in the curry i suppose lol

alright, so with that batch out of the way, let me rank these from best to least best

7. Toast Curry

6. Sausage Curry

5. Fancy Apple Curry

4. Bean Medley Curry

3. Salad Curry

2. Plenty-of-Potato Curry

1. Pasta Curry

the choices i made could definitely use some tweaking, but hey! it was fun now if you’ll excuse me, i need to eat more pasta curry

#pokemon #long post #pokemon curry adventures #eyyyy

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cuisinedupark · 4 years

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Trying out a Paleo Diet

I am going to post something unique this time with my diet which I’ve never heard of or tried before.

A Paleo Diet!! Some of you may or may not be familiar with it.

Anyway, a paleo diet(or paleolithic diet) is designed to resemble what human hunter-gatherer ancestors ate thousands of years ago.(Healthline.com)

You can only eat food that our ancestors used to eat before the farming era had begun.

There are several studies that says this diet can help you lose a significant amount of weight and a good way to stay healthy.

However, my biggest reason to start this one was that it looked relatively easy for me to tolerate this diet scheme. (I am not a big fan of dieting although I may need one right now…)

I actually did try my best to follow the rule and let’s see how it went!!

[Had to shop for Paleo menus]

What are the examples of typical daily menus?

Surprisingly enough, even under the same name of “paleo diet”, there were some varieties amongst the websites and organizations. I think that difference comes from the point of view of write, for instance could pre-historic mankind had a chance to eat legumes or not? Maybe some of them had and the others might not have had a chance to.

After looking over a number of websites, I had picked Healthline(https://www.healthline.com/) to follow the guidelines because the website seemed to be more focused on heath perspective and it is run by medical teams.

Based on Healthline’s recommendations, here is the list of what I should and should not eat.(https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/paleo-diet-meal-plan-and-menu)

The most difficult challenge or I could say a disaster for me was not being able to have any rice, bread or any soft drinks. Again, I really tried hard to go through and let’s see how I had survived through such a tragedy! 😊

Provide one recipe that you have created (using standard recipe format) that utilizes the concepts discussed

Around the end of the week trying out the paleo diet, since I did not get much chance to have any flour or rice based carbohydrates, I felt like I needed to fulfill my body with something. Carbo in potatoes was not much of help although my wife who grew up in Germany seemed to have no problem at all with potatoes!!

I really needed a hot pot that would refresh me and it still had to be in the line with paleo diet. Then I came up with “Jun-Bok-Sam-Gye-Tang” or “Ginseng Chicken Soup with Abalones” in English. Ginseng and abalone(Jun-bok in Korean) are two major ingredients used in traditional Korean recipes when there’s a need to heal or refresh someone.

Then again, it struck me hard that I had to have some type of allergies to complete my assignments. Abalone would be one of the main ingredients in the soup and also one of my favourites but I decided to have(?) a crustacean allergy for the day and had to avoid it.

Here is a hot pot which is very paleo recipe with the chickens!!

Korean Style Chicken Soup Ingredients(1-2 servings)

- 1 whole chicken(I had to buy separated parts due to corona virus over buying. No whole chickens could be found anywhere. I used 2 breasts and 2 legs with back attached) - Milk vetch root(황기) 25 g - Senticosus(오가피) 10 g - Kalopanax tree(엄나무) 20 g - Oriental Raisin Tree(헛개나무) 20 g - Dried Dates(말린대추) 5 g - Mulberry Tree(상지) 10 g - 1 Head of Garlic(approximately 10~12 cloves) - 3 litres of Cold Water - 1 sprig of Ginseng.(Not added here because wild ginseng is very rare and most of them are farm grown) - 1 abalone(Not added here because of crustacean allergy)

Instruments

- Chef knife / butchering knife - Cutting board - Heavy bottomed pot - Metal bowl

Mis en Place

Recipe

1. Wash and clean your chicken. Leave the skin on for a thicker aroma of the soup. 2. Prepare a heavy bottomed pot with 3 litres of cold water. 3. Put all the tree branches and herbs in and bring to boil and simmer for 30 minutes covered with a lid.

4. After 30 min, the stock will look yellowish and it’s time to put the chicken and garlic in.

5. Keep simmering for another 45 minutes with the lid on. 6. Skim the oil from time to time and take out the chicken and strain the soup out with a strainer or simply take out the ingredients from the pot.

7. Season the stock with salt and black pepper. 8. Serve chicken with the soup.

I had to cook for the kids that day so I just took out the chicken and cut them into small pieces so they could pick up and eat them with only a bit of soup under the meat. I had saved the soup to make a porridge for the kids and did not use it that day(and also forgot to take a photo later on...sigh...).

Furthermore, because of my crustacean allergy, I could not add abalone to it!! Then again, I might be able to use beef “knee knuckle” instead of abalone to add more flavour to the soup. I may try to make it when this corona crisis is over.

Anyway, the original soup using a whole chicken should look like this(without abalone).

[Photo from the website of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea]

It may be hard to say I had created everything because Korean people are very familiar with this type of dishes.

A website run by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea introduces an original recipe of chicken soup which contains ginseng, sweet rice, milk vetch root, dried dates, green onions and garlic.(http://www.kocis.go.kr/koreanet/view.do?seq=6117&page=2&pageSize=10&photoPageSize=6&totalCount=0&searchType=&searchText=%EC%82%BC%EA%B3%84%ED%83%95&RN=12&cateCode=)

I had tried to stick to the concept of paleo diet so I used all kinds of trees and herbs which are often used in traditional Korean dishes. Due to those branches and herbs, it gives more woody and herbal aroma than original chicken soup.

Keep a 7 day log of your eating habits based on your diet choice.

It was not easy but I tried very hard to stick to this paleo diet. I did fail to meet the guidelines once or twice but I would like to say that I did complete the task!!

Let’s take a look at what I had eaten during the week.

Day 1. B. Sweet Potato, Pear, Apple, Banana, 1 cup of Almond Milk L. Steamed Chicken Legs, Kimchi D. Chicken Salad

Day 2. B. Sweet Potato, Boiled Egg, Apple, 1 cup of Almond Milk L. Santa Fe Power Bowl from school.(FAILED - so many wheat) D. Salmon, Trout steak cooked at school.(without beans)

Day 3. B. Sweet Potato, Apple, Banana, 1 cup of Almond Milk L. Mashed potato, Small Salad, Leftover beef and chicken. D. Grilled pork belly, Leftover salmon and trout steaks, Seaweed soup

Day 4. B. Tomato, Banana, Boiled egg, Mango, Pear, Kimchi soup L. Steamed Kimchi with pork D. Grilled pork shoulder, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Cabbage

Day 5. B. Apple, Tomato, Banana, Boiled egg, Honey L. Spicy pork grill, Cucumber, Cabbage D. Egg fries, Kimchi soup

Day 6. B. Sweet potato, Apple, Banana, Boiled egg, 1 cup of almond milk L. Leftover pork, Pan fried potato, Tomato stew D. Chicken supreme with mashed potato/spinach

Day 7. B. Sweet potato, Apple, Banan, 1 cup of almond milk L. Korean Style Chicken Soup(Sam-gye-tang without much of broth) D. Roasted Potatoes.

IT’S FINISHED!!!!! YAY!!!

My experience review at the end of the week.

After 1 week of paleo diet, my first thought was “It’s finally over!!”.

It did not seem to be too hard when I thought about it, but changing eating behaviour suddenly seemed to be much harder task than I thought.

You could still eat meat, vegetables and fruits.

However, not being able to have any type of wheat, rice, noodles or breads made me very uncomfortable during the meal. The thought of “Just one bite of a bread” or “Just one spoon of steamed rice” made me more difficult to overcome the desire.

I was not surprised to find out that I had not lost 1 kg of my weight because I had to eat more to than the usual meal because I wanted starch so bad.

However, surprisingly enough, not drinking any soft drinks or processed sweets made me feel very light and comfortable in a way.

What I am thinking is that I may try to stick to paleo diet but would allow myself just a bit of carbohydrates or sweets - maybe once a week or so.

Some advice or ideas that would allow myself to maintain my dietary choice and be a chef.

Like I said earlier, I believe keeping up the pace seems to be the most important rule in a diet. By the end of the week, my thirst for a coke and rice/bread had exceeded the limit I could bear and it felt like I could never do it again.

Then again, after a couple of days later, I could feel a bit of difference in my physical condition. It was not dramatically huge because I’d only done it for a week but I could sense that my condition had been better while doing the diet.

So, I came to conclusion that I should think of keeping this diet under a couple of conditions, minimizing

1. consumption of rice or flour - approximately 1/2~1/4 of what I used to consume. 2. soft beverages - only available on weekends.

As a chef, I would change some of the recipes I already have to use less of flour or wheat.

Example 1. Dried Pasta - Decrease the amount of dried pasta to 40 g per portion from 80 g and serve more fruits for desserts. - Or could use zucchini/squash noodles instead of flour based pasta noodles.

Example 2. Steamed Rice - On average, 1 bowl of steamed rice in Korea weighs about 200 g - I would serve only 100 g of steamed rice - Steamed or fried seeds may be a good substitute for the other 100 g

Would I continue with my choice?

Absolutely!

I am thinking of my revised version of paleo diet when market supply comes back to normal. Just as much as I care about my health, I am a type of person who wants a good, delicious meal and not just healthy meal.

Now, would you like to join me?

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