Why I gained 20 kg in the first year of life in the USA: experience and conclusions
'20.04.2021'
I never had a perfect model figure, with a height of 170, my weight always floated around the 60 kg mark. I can’t say that I was on diets, I didn’t eat properly and didn’t eat after 18. I also didn’t go in for sports, only long walks, swim in the river, play badminton ... In a word, I was like everyone, the channel author writes. "Masha US America" on Yandex.Zen.
After I moved to the States, smoothly and imperceptibly, I stopped getting into my usual jeans, which I was very surprised. I never overeat, did not have digestive problems. Then, when I figured out why this is happening, I was horrified.
America is a country of food paradox
In America, you can eat only in two ranges - cheap and harmful or expensive and healthy. You won’t believe it, but in America people don’t understand how it is to eat cereal. Maximum - oatmeal for breakfast, but even very few people eat it. They prefer cereal - almost always glazed with sugar or honey syrup, with nuts, dried fruits and jam. The Americans are perplexed by the usual milk porridges, which I really loved.
Yes, I did not make a reservation - I loved it. Now on this continent I have gotten into such a nuisance as lactose intolerance, or an allergy to dairy products. For me there were only 3 products, without which I could not imagine my existence - milk, meat and salt. It turns out that without dairy products I can live ... In America, store milk is just disgusting to the taste, it can not even be compared with our most terrible, "no" milk in tetrapacks, not to mention home-made. And farm milk, like all farm products, costs a lot of money. I don’t know why it tastes so good, how they pasteurize it, and what they add to it. Actually on this store milk, I earned my trouble. Now it’s not that I can’t eat milk, and I can’t even use every kind of cheese. Now, without "consequences" I eat only mozzarella.
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A separate conversation is bread. Since I stopped eating cereals in the amount I used to, I started eating bread. It seems like she bought the right one, “healthy”, but something confused me about his taste. When I found out the recipe for bread in America, I was very surprised. It turns out that Americans put much more sugar in all types of bread during baking than is customary in our country. For me, everything fell into place immediately.
Another aspect is fast foods and street food. Everything is fast, cheap, satisfying and ... incredibly tasty! In America, really klondike inexpensive delicious street food. But the usefulness of this food is not worth talking about. Everything fried, greasy, flavored with sauces, sprinkled with chocolate ... In America, really everything is fried - from steaks and chicken to marshmallows, ice cream and cucumbers.
That is why Americans rarely cook at home - why waste time and effort on cooking (and not the fact that it will turn out delicious), if you can go for a couple of dollars and eat delicious food to the dump? Especially good products cost good money, and cheap products are stuffed with flavor enhancers, dyes and stabilizers.
America is also a country of huge home freezers. Americans simply love to buy dozens of packs of convenience foods — anything from frozen meatballs and nuggets to full-fledged frozen pizza — and eat it because it's cheap and tasty! In general, the concept of "cooking at home" for Americans is fundamentally different from ours. If our hostess cooks “the first second third and compote”, then in America to cook at home is to bring ready-to-cook foods and consider yourself the god of culinary.
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So what happened to me with the average American happened to me - not having a large regular income, I ate according to the first scheme: cheap and harmful. But very tasty!
I stopped cooking in such volumes as I cooked at home, rarely bought really high-quality products (in reality, they can only be bought on weekends when farmer’s markets take place), and I was too lazy to drive and buy products that are familiar to our daily diet: buckwheat, cottage cheese, kefir, sour cream, herring, rye bread.
And the result is obvious - in a year I gained 20 kg of weight!
Now I try not to save on good and high-quality products, cook and eat according to my own recipes, completely abandoned bread and sugar. It is a pity that lactose tolerance cannot be returned.
