Welcome to Kaycee And The Forefront, the mostly weekly page where Steve Kaycee brings world issues to the forefront.
Today, he blogs about his approach to food consumption.
You can see the entry below!
**Note: The following content has controversial wording. Discretion is advised
“Pragmatic And A Possibly Unintentional Killjoy: Part 1”
As someone who takes a lot of variables about food into account, I’m very conscientious about quite a few situations involving food, as they pertain to my life. So, in other words, I have built-in reasons for those specific situations.
Let’s continue.
Alright, as someone whom first began to feel and see his metabolism slow down at the age of 23 in 2007, and then really felt and saw it slowing even more as a 25-year-old in late-2009, I became honest with myself about how much food that I could realistically consume during each meal, as there were times during my age-25 phase that I felt increasingly weighed down. So, given that I didn’t want increasingly slower metabolism to lead to excess weight later on in life, along with the fact that feeling weighed down fatigues me quite often from what I need to concentrate on as a content creator, I became a staunch pragmatist about food consumption, only to find that extremely challenging, especially dealing with people (roommates) whom are way more “munchie” than I am. So yeah, there were and have been times of lots “odds-and-ends” leftover situations being overlooked by the want of something more fresh and robust, and the former category at times comes via the refusal of killing off (eating) “odds-and-ends” during meal time, and that’s a result of pre-leftover disproportional selection. And not only does pre-leftover disproportional selection lead to that, because in addition, having “odds-and-ends” sit around with a short shelf life (5 days maximum) is another problem, as the want for something fresh and robust leads to the wasteful discarding of “odds-and-ends”, whether unintentional or not. And even if that’s unintentional, well then that still leads to my pet peeve of wasting food. Yes, that last part might make me sound like an asshole, but I’m looking at this whole thing from a very thought-out standpoint.
Of course, I can’t control what other people discard of, from a food standpoint. But as far as I’m concerned, I’ll take an amount for a meal that I know that I can finish in its entirety, especially when I listen to my body. And if anyone wants to know what constitutes as an amount that I can finish in its entirety, well I’m a main course and two side dish type of person (more so for dinner), so I don’t like when the sides are more than two unless it’s Thanksgiving, but even then I find all of that holiday’s variety too overwhelming to make decisions about during late-November. So yeah, I’ll be laying down my law of a main course and a maximum of two sides during meal time, although allowances will be made, on the basis of how my body feels. So yeah, don’t dread cooking for me, as you know my reasoning comes from the combination of feel and pragmatism, and not pointless contrarianism. 🙂
In closing, I did say that I would cite more situations in this entry, but those won’t fit within the flow of this entry, so tune in next week to those citations.