How's your macros?

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:58:22 GMT

It seems everyone (or every marketing person anyway), is obsessed with protein and macros these days.

Now I'm going to be eating less (it's still a bizarre feeling, not having a constant "I'm hungry, what will HIT THE SPOT!?" feeling and instead having a "hmm, I should eat now, what is the best choice?"), I'm starting to understand this a bit. Apparently some folks suffer from lack of calcium or protein while on semaglutide so you have to be careful to ensure you get enough.

The neat thing is, I'm kind of familiar with this kind of diet management anyway. It reminds me a lot of ration era food advice and I think I'll be leaning on a lot of the advice and recipes from that era, seeing as it's already been a hobby of mine for... shit, it's been over a decade now.

Rationing advice explained there were types of food -
Building foods - protein and calcium, to build and maintain muscle and bone - as meat was scarce, this was often supplemented with legumes, cheese, powdered eggs, household milk, tinned fish, even whale meat in some parts.
Energy foods - carbohydrates, mostly bread (made with fortified National Flour) and potatoes, and a smidge of fat (dripping or margarine usually), to give energy to keep you going through day.
Healing foods - Vegetables (and fruit when available). Vitamins and minerals.

The recommendation was about half a kilo of potato per person per day! To fill you up with something relatively nutritious, easy to get and cheap.

During rationing the population was probably more healthy than it had ever been. Everyone got sufficient food, and everyone was encouraged to consume all of their ration, supplementing with as much fresh vegetables as was available.

Much simpler, but just as effective as wasting money on protein bars which don't offer any more protein than an egg.

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Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:21:10 GMT

3 doses in. Next one is due Monday.

I think I'm appreciating the taste of food more. That coconut yoghurt hit the chocolate spot!

When I started I weighed 134.3kg.
Next Monday - 133.2kg
Next Monday - 132.5kg
and last night (Thursday) I just stepped on the scales for the hell of it... 127.7!

Now, this is actually unusually fast, but if I can keep up this pace, I'll be at my goal within the year. Got a follow up Dr's appt next week, that should be interesting.

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