Physical health/food dilemma as an autistic person with particular taste.
First off, I'm a pretty laid back person even when it comes to my autism, you could say...
I like tomatoes when contained in a subway sandwhcih but not on their own.
I enjoy a vareity of fruit and vegetables, but a small vareity. ⚠️ cw emetophobia for the emoji ⚠️ I can't stand darker breads usually bc the dark brown often tasted like literal 🤮 to me and made me gag.
So healthier bread has been impossible. I am a big fan of salty foods and chocolate foods, and ice cream.
However, lately I've become more uncomfortable with my body and the amount of fat I have. I'm 5 kg over the reccomended BMI max.
I haven't had a place to regularly cycle to as I did when I was going to college, so I don't get to exercise a lot.
I will attempt to get a regular cycling routine going again, but I've also been thinking about getting a dietician. I question if this is worth it though, as I cpuld also ask chatgpt for diet advice and maybe save money? I understand it's bad to use ai to replace a human with the occupation, but I just feel like a dietician is an extra expense that I might not be able to support on top of my autism support healthcare and medical expenses.
It also feels quite possibly ridiculous, would I just be paying someone to tell me to give up the joy of eating ice cream and anything fatty for 2 years?
Idk what to do to improve my physical health, really. Not sure what direction to go and I just want to be able to feel happy about my body. I don't want my skin to sag, I would be interested in trying things to get rid of stretch marks and other blemishes from similar issues. I just want to be able to not feel bad about parts of my body.
Cause currently, I love my face, I like the way I look generally, but then having to realise time and time again how big some parts of me are can end up disgusting me or disturbing me and I want to put an end to that.
What should I do? Follow AI advice? Risk losing more money to a dietician? Just focus solely on exercise? Find some other health worker to help me with my health?
@Birchtreebird11 Oh crap, I completely had no coherence writing this, and this site won't let me edit it, great.
So to improve my message I'll have to fix it here:
First off, I'm a pretty laid back person even when it comes to my autism, you could say... my tastes in food, although specific, aren't crazy limited. They're limited, but still varied as well-
I like tomatoes when contained in a subway ssandwich it not on their own.
I enjoy a vareity of fruit and vegetables, but a small vareity. I can only think of carrots, apples, mandarin (unsure about those tbh theyre not always good), parpika red orange or yellow and that's about it. I can sometimes eat a banana but don't mych enjoy them.
⚠️ cw emetophobia for the emoji ⚠️ I can't stand darker breads usually bc the dark brown often tasted like literal 🤮 to me and made me gag.
So healthier bread has been impossible. I am a big fan of salty foods and chocolate foods, and ice cream.
This all makes for a difficult time making healthy diet choices, just eating healthy.
And lately I've become uncomfortable with my body....
The rest of the post is good enoughI think.
