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Weekly Improvement Thread - July 20th 2025 (hexbear.net)
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Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of July! bonfire

Some discussion ideas:

  • How was your week?

  • Do you have some plans for next week?

  • Do you have any sober days or streaks?

  • Do you have some useful resources that you can share?

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[-] moonlake@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

I recently finished reading How Not to Diet. It's an evidence-based book about healthy nutrition and weight loss. It's rigorously researched, it has 5000 references. I highly recommend it. That author also made a cookbook of the same name.

My advice is to take what you are already eating and substitute it for healthier alternatives. For example:

  • rice -> brown rice
  • potatoes -> sweet potatoes
  • white bread -> whole-grain bread
  • chicken -> tofu
  • steak -> soy patties
  • milk -> oatmilk

If you aren't already, I recommend cooking as many of your meals as possible and getting into meal prep. I recently started making bean burritos. It takes me a few hours to make 15 burritos. Then I freeze them and I have healthy dinner for 2 weeks.

[-] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Thank you so much comrade! I'll take a look into the book.

I'll also look into healthier alternatives like you mentioned.

I absolutely love oatmilk, but unfortunately it costs at least 3x more than milk where I live, so it can be a bit expensive, good thing I don't use it a lot, so I can probably afford it from time to time.

I eat rice daily so it's probably a good idea I look into the alternative you mentioned too.

I also eat chicken daily so I'll look into tofu. I've only eaten it once but I remember liking it a lot, so it would probably be an easy transition. It's also good because I've been meaning to look into veganism for a while now, so that definitely helps!

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