My family is all very very obesity prone and acts psychotic about it. Everyone. They (try to) eat low-cal well-seasoned food. Mom will barely lose weight at 1000 cal/day unless she’s doing cardio (she won’t) the family dinner table looks pitiful. I mean, they make it look nice visually, but if all four of us are staying healthy it looks like a salad and baked chicken. Nobody is forced to eat healthy or shamed.
Almost always salad or raw/boiled vegetables and a protein. Boiled cheesy broccoli is a treat there. Eggs for breakfast. Yogurt and fruit for lunch. It’s almost unreal sometimes. I lucked out as I just do 2-3000 cal a day and keep an eye on it and I’m set. 1500 if I’m overweight and 4000 if I fall under but I think that the lifestyle they maintain has permanently marred the way I look at food.
All this to say we both are and aren’t food people in my family.
If she is making good tasting low calorie food, that’s actually quite an advanced trick. But your mom should (sorry for the should) work out if she’s able bodied and her TDEE is 1,000 kcal. How can an adult woman even get enough nutrition on that? I thought 1,200 was the bare minimum and took some wrangling. I am moderately active (vinyasa yoga 4x a week and electric bike not car) and at least 2,000 a day to maintain at 57 years old. It does keep me at weight not underweight like when I was 20-45 but how idle is she? That can’t be good.
Not sure how the food science works out but she’s a remarkably small woman so I always figured that meant less food to meet caloric needs. I’ve had many conversations with her about her lifestyle and unfortunately I think it’s a lost cause. She absolutely HATES exerting herself. Most of her excercise comes from running errands and shopping.
I suspect you’re aware; but if she’s undereating, that may be why she hates exercising - she may have less energy than she should, making it an even bigger effort for her to do anything than it would be if she were overweight.
I think as long as you’re eating food that tastes good within what you’re able to eat then you’re doing just fine and people shouldn’t judge you. It’s people that could eat whatever and choose to be flavourless that suck.
My family is all very very obesity prone and acts psychotic about it. Everyone. They (try to) eat low-cal well-seasoned food. Mom will barely lose weight at 1000 cal/day unless she’s doing cardio (she won’t) the family dinner table looks pitiful. I mean, they make it look nice visually, but if all four of us are staying healthy it looks like a salad and baked chicken. Nobody is forced to eat healthy or shamed.
Almost always salad or raw/boiled vegetables and a protein. Boiled cheesy broccoli is a treat there. Eggs for breakfast. Yogurt and fruit for lunch. It’s almost unreal sometimes. I lucked out as I just do 2-3000 cal a day and keep an eye on it and I’m set. 1500 if I’m overweight and 4000 if I fall under but I think that the lifestyle they maintain has permanently marred the way I look at food.
All this to say we both are and aren’t food people in my family.
If she is making good tasting low calorie food, that’s actually quite an advanced trick. But your mom should (sorry for the should) work out if she’s able bodied and her TDEE is 1,000 kcal. How can an adult woman even get enough nutrition on that? I thought 1,200 was the bare minimum and took some wrangling. I am moderately active (vinyasa yoga 4x a week and electric bike not car) and at least 2,000 a day to maintain at 57 years old. It does keep me at weight not underweight like when I was 20-45 but how idle is she? That can’t be good.
Not sure how the food science works out but she’s a remarkably small woman so I always figured that meant less food to meet caloric needs. I’ve had many conversations with her about her lifestyle and unfortunately I think it’s a lost cause. She absolutely HATES exerting herself. Most of her excercise comes from running errands and shopping.
I suspect you’re aware; but if she’s undereating, that may be why she hates exercising - she may have less energy than she should, making it an even bigger effort for her to do anything than it would be if she were overweight.
Sounds right.
I think as long as you’re eating food that tastes good within what you’re able to eat then you’re doing just fine and people shouldn’t judge you. It’s people that could eat whatever and choose to be flavourless that suck.