A word about my diet
FUBAR.
I’m fairly picky about my diet. Schedule-wise and food-wise. There’s a lot more types of food that I avoid than food that I do eat. For example, I don’t eat anything white (white pasta, white rice, etc), no fast food, no fried food. I avoid sodium, some oils, condiments, pizza, and several other things.
Now I realize that in the US casually eating out isn’t that healthy either, but in BA it seems magnified. Most places around town serve heavy pasta, empanadas, pizza made mostly of cheese (porteños for some reason aren’t into putting many toppings on their pies), pastries, etc. Greasy, oily, fried stuff is everywhere. And when you’re new in town it’s hard to find where to eat healthy. All the cafés serve you white bread and butter when you sit down.
So I started going to the supermarket. It’s not much better there. Finding anything whole wheat is a chore, especially when you can’t read much of anything. I bought some jamón (ham) which was super salty, but the bread I chose seemed to be whole grain. You win some, you lose some.
I average around 2800 calories/day. Since I’ve been here, I’ve likely averaged around 1500/day. You’re thinking but you just said everything around town was oily cheesy pizza, empanadas and pasta? True. But for various reasons, I’ve been eating around two unbalanced “meals” per day as opposed to the five balanced meals that I’m accustomed to. I feel like I have lost around 5-6 pounds. I have cinched my belt up one notch. I was 200 lbs on the dot when I left. I’ll be curious when I get back to the US. Combining this terrible eating with zero gym time and I feel pretty awful.
