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so when are we going to talk about how being pushed to follow a specific '[insert symptom of a chronic condition here] diet' only makes things worse? especially if you already have body dysphoria, body dysmorphia, disordered eating, etc.

it may help to cut down on certain things in your diet, of course! especially if your chronic condition includes food sensitivity. it may also cause serious harm for folks to be told to follow an extremely strict and regimented eating plan. we just want more people to talk about this, I know we aren't the only ones affected by it..

how to math foods from their nutrition info and ingredient list:

in the US, ingredient lists have to be in order from largest to smallest amount. so like I'm looking at these chicken gyoza I get from Sprouts:

nutrition label:

serving size: 7 gyoza, or 140g. This is slightly complicated by the fact that the ingredients list (below) is divided into filling and wrapper, but I'm mostly interested in mathing out the filling anyway. by looking up gyoza wrappers separately I have determined 7 wrappers is around 39-40g. (fodmap app says I'm good up to like. 30 wrappers. yay I don't have to worry about the wrappers.)

So I'm looking at a serving size of 100g for the filling.

the ingredient list looks like this:

Ingredients: Filling: Boneless Chicken, Cabbage, Sugar, Salt, Onion, Soybean Oil, Sesame Seed Oil, Ginger, Garlic, White Pepper. Wrapper: Unbleached And Enriched Wheat Flour (Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Food Starch, Salt, Soybean Oil.

Because the ingredient list is by amount, I know that chicken (the first ingredient) could be almost all of that 100g, but the most cabbage (second ingredient) there could be is just under 50g, because there has to be more chicken than cabbage. and the same applies down the line. so the list is:

chicken - less than 100g

cabbage - less than 50g (half)

sugar - less than 33g (one third)

salt - less than 25g (one fourth) 1.6g (see below)

onion - less than 20g (one fifth) 1.6g

soybean oil - less than 17g (one sixth) 1.6g

sesame oil - less than 14g (one seventh)1.6g

ginger - less than 12.5g (one eighth) 1.6g

garlic - less than 11g (one ninth) 1.6g

white pepper - less than 10g (one tenth) 1.6g

and likely everything from sugar down is actually much lower -- you don't have your seasonings take up a third of your material. but those are the greatest amounts a serving could contain based on this nutritional label. and in fact, I can look up what the sodium content is--650mg, or less than a single gram, according to the nutrition label. sodium is about 40% of salt's mass so call that 1.6g salt, and then figure out that everything lower on the list than salt (4) has to also be less than 1.6g. (and. salt is also in the wrappers. so this is more salt and more subsequent seasonings than is in the fillings. 1.6g is our high safety estimate.)

so, what does my fodmap app say about these ingredients?

chicken's fine, don't need to worry about my meats pretty much.

cabbage: safe serve is 75g. I'm good.

sugar: safe serve is 50g. I'm good.

salt: does not contain fodmaps

onion: 12g is a yellow serve. but since we know onion actually has to be less than 1.6g, I think this is safe.

oils: no fodmaps

ginger: 5g is a safe serve, since we're under 1.6g we're good.

garlic: I had to look up a bunch of stuff to figure out what qualifies as a safe serve of garlic, because it's miniscule. but it's like 1.46g. that's close enough to 1.6g (and garlic is enough ingredients down from that salt) that I think this is probably safe.

white pepper: not sure, but black pepper would be fine?

Yay, I can eat a serving of these gyoza! my tendency to eat two servings for a meal might be pushing things but like. overall. safe food despite inclusion of fodmap ingredients due to how little of those ingredients are actually in there.

I do shit like this in my head like all the time. like when I'm trying to figure out how much lactose a cheese has, I'll check its sugar content. regular milk runs at about 4% lactose but I know 1-2% is generally safe for me to consume, so if the g of sugar in a cheese is less than 2% of the serving size I'll know it's okay for my level of lactose intolerance. (although there's a complication on sugar! if the amount of sugar in a serving is less than 5 calories - less than about a gram - the label does not have to report it! which is why tic tacs are listed at 0 calories and 0g of sugar even though their primary ingredient is sugar. because a serving size is less than half a gram. anyway this means that if i'm looking at a label that says 0g sugar and i want to be sure the percent of sugar (that is potentially lactose) is less than 2% of the serving, that serving size has to be at least 50g for me to be sure the "rounded down" to zero sugar is still at a safe amount. tricky with cream cheese where they set the serving at 30g.)

anyway shoutout to the gnocchi company (Del Cecco ftw) that put on the ingredient list that the first ingredient (mashed potatoes) comprised 80% of the gnocchi and the second ingredient (potato starch) comprised 15%, you made my life so much easier.

Just a friendly PSA for people who don't have chronic illness:

If you're hanging out with a friend or family member who has gastrointestinal chronic illness and they politely decline to order anything when the group eats out and chooses to just sit there while you eat, do not pressure them to order something. Chances are they know precisely how many food they cannot eat without pain, and enjoying a day out is rough when you have explosive diarrhea, constipation, or debilitating abdominal pain. Sometimes even safe foods will cause a reaction, and it's never fun. Trust that they have a good reason for not eating, and do not make them feel bad about it just for the sake of social norms.

able bodied allies of disabled people when your disability genuinely has no secret upside and makes you useless to a late stage capitalist society

they should not put ads on the dog tv (eight hours of birds) i put on for my dog to watch. she doesn't understand capitalism. she doesn't even understand that the birds aren't really there in the room with her. sometimes she tries to bite the ipad when a really funky one shows up. you can't advertise to her. she's not going to buy a swiffer wet jet

I love very specific cakes

See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

the cultural boogeyman of the faker is such a convenient lie for ableism. Waste your time fighting about who does and does not deserve help, and maybe you wont realizes that there was never any help to begin with. The is no epidemic of malingerers taking up resources they don't need, there is a lack of resources for disabled people

bpd is so unbearably lonely. you never feel like anyone loves you because they only care about the sanitized idea of you, the one you made up so people don't abandon you again. as soon as your messy symptoms show, suddenly you're not nearly as loveable. having bpd is to spend your whole life trying desperately to make yourself more palatable

Hey did you know that you can’t escape fatphobia even after death? The article talks about how these donated bodies are used for first year anatomy students to study the body, and how the 'perfect' body for that should be 170-180 pounds.

*walks around yhe dashboard & my footsteps echoing* Guys ..?

This could save lives so I thought I’d share!

healing is when you have an intrusive thought and instead of having a meltdown you go “girl what?? shut up” and move on

I really wish medical professionals were more confident with treating trans people.

When I had to disclose being trans (cause if you’re placing a catheter you should probably know upfront what junk I have), I was asked “so how far transitioned are you?”. Which is a question I hate because as far as I’m concerned I transitioned when I came out at 15 and that’s it.

In my head, the fact I haven’t had bottom surgery has nothing to do with “how transitioned” I am. I didn’t get more trans or more male when I started hormones and I didn’t get less trans or less male when I had to stop hormones a couple of times.

I wish medical professionals would just ask specific questions based on what they need to know about my anatomy. Like “have you got a vulva?” “Do you have a uterus?” “Do you have breasts?” make way more sense as questions, are less confusing and don’t imply someone is less trans because they haven’t had a particular medical intervention.

just saw a tiktok about dating game where there's a red button to refuse on this person in front of you... if you know you know.

so. this tiktok was about girl in a wheelchair who pressed that button on several guys, explaining herself like "you deserve someone better" or "you deserve someone who can keep up with your lifestyle".

and comments are wild. there's two sections of people: ones that call her mature and wise for choosing this, or ones who say "NOOO who treated her like a burden i just wanna talk to them!"

first of all. YOU did. YOU treat disabled people like a burden in your daily life without noticing it. you go around your days and ignore steep ramps, or even lack of them, you park your cars in the middle of pavements, you-

secondly. you wouldn't say all of this if that one girl wasn't pretty. she's conventionally beautiful. she's like a model. if someone else were in that wheelchair, your reaction would probably be different.