u/any_internet_goose

"Need support" is the closest thing to "please celebrate with me, cuz I don't really have any friends" 😭😅

I had my consultation and I'm more than likely gonna be starting T on August 5th! I'm 31, transmasc nonbinary, and I've been too scared to pursue it for years at this point. But I found myself slowly backed further and further into a corner by dysphoria until I just couldn't wait any more.

I don't think I've ever been this excited in my entire life. I just really wanted to tell someone. 🧡

As a fourteen year old babyqueer, I headcanoned them as sapphic. But as an adult, I really like an aro QPR read of their dynamic. They're like QP soulmates, and I love them.

TW: ED mention, and nutrition discussion.

Obviously, right? On a logical level, I knew I could *technically* eat whatever for breakfast.

But I think this is something I really didn't internalize until this most recent round of ED recovery. (Nine months next week!) I have super limited safe foods. I can eat a lot of things, but very few of them are *easy*, if that makes sense. My only real, true safe foods are a small set of cheeses each in only very specific circumstances, and then chicken, eggs, and potatoes. My biggest issues with food are: no hard to chew, no slimy, no ice cold. The earlier it is, the less I can tolerate sweets, and the less I can tolerate touch sensitivities. So no early sweets, and no early super crumbly things. On top of all that, a lifetime of ED has left me with a very senistive stomach, too. I also have borderline high cholesterol, and I'm prediabetic. Therefore, breakfast is my final boss.

Bagel is too firm, english muffin is too crumby. Cereal is too cold and too crumbly and too sweet, fruit is too cold and unpredictable. Smoothies are too cold, and a poptart isn't nourishing enough and is also too sweet. Bacon is tasty but bad for cholesterol, and often upsets my stomach. And if I eat eggs every breakfast, I start to get sick of them, cuz I'm also very sensitive to palete fatigue. So breakfasts have always been a war.

It's been getting a lot better lately. You can just eat whatever your lil heart desires as long as you get the nutrients you need!

A broccoli cheddar baked potato has carbs, protein, fiber, and fat! No crumbs, comes hot, isn't sweet. It's low cholesterol, low sugar, moderately low fat, and 100% in the realm of safe food for me. It's a super easy, quite nutritionally dense meal. Takes one bowl, and one pan/air fryer dish.

I literally just roast frozen broccoli (nuke for like three minutes to thaw in the bowl, then toss in my air fryer on the pan with a little oil), dump a little shredded cheddar cheese on it, then air fry for two extra minutes, and then just dump all of that onto a microwaved baked potato (which i just poke a few holes in with the fork I'm gonna eat with) without a dish). It takes like five minutes of prep, and like a max of thirty to cook, depending on how I do my broccoli. I have it with a v8! All I have to get in my groceries is: big bulk bag of frozen broccoli, big bag of potatoes, bag of shredded cheese, and maybe sour cream. Since I was buying all those things anyway, this meal is extra easy.

This has been my breakfast five days of the last two weeks. Super easy cleanup, and 100% safe for me personally.

I wanted to post this for two reasons.

1 ) To remind those who need to hear it that social food conventions don't matter so long as yer fed and nourished.

2. To share the easiest meal I make that scratches all my itches, in case it would do that for any of y'all.

**I'd love if any of you is willing to share how you've made eating easier for yourself, what your favorite easy, nutritionally whole meals are, or just a way you're challenging meal conventions to make sure you get fed in a way that works for you!** We all deserve to be nourished 🧡

I know they tried to patch it once and missed a segment, but I haven’t heard if there have been any updates to fix the fix.

SE/D9 don’t seem super invested in this game, at least given how fast (and seemingly incompletely, sadly) they rolled it out… so I’m kinda worried they’re gonna drop support for updates before fixing it, lol.