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(10 Questions With Helena) ep.8 - 음식
(10 Questions With Helena) ep.8 - 음식
ep.8 - 음식
한국어
그럼 두 번째 질문으로 가볼게요.
2. 요즘 당신의 하루 식사는 보통 어떻게 되나요?
이 질문인데요.
보통 요즘에는 아침에 과일주스를 마셔요. 과일주스는 항상 그때마다 이제 어떤 과일이
있는지에 따라서 재료가 달라지는데 보통은 사과나 당근, 바나나가 가장 자주 들어가는
재료고요. 어떨 때는 양배추를 거기에다 더 넣기도 하고. 요즘에는 파인애플을 또 넣기도
하고 그래서 그때그때 제철 과일들로 과일주스를 만들어서 아침으로 먹고 있습니다. 그리고
점심에는 주로 밥을 먹으려고는 해요. 네, 그래서 예전에는 집밥, 반찬들 놓고 전통 한식
집밥을 많이 먹었는데 요즘에 거기에서 좀 빠진 거는 반찬 개수가 좀 많이 줄어들기도 했고
채소 과일 위주로 먹으려고 하고. 그리고 제가 국을 굉장히 좋아해서 (예전에) 항상 국을
많이 먹으려고 했는데 요즘에는 제가 국은 그렇게 많이 식탁에 올리지는 않고 있어요.
그래서 어쨌든 점심에는 한식을 먹고 그다음에 저녁에는 샐러드류를 많이 만들어서 먹고
있습니다.
자, 그러면 다음 질문 볼게요.
3. 어릴 적 가장 좋아했던 음식이 무엇이었나요? 그 이유는 뭔가요?
라고 하셨는데 제가 어릴 적에 가장 좋아했던 것은 제가 수제비를 되게 좋아했더라고요. 네,
왜냐면 제가 어렸을 때 그 부엌에서 엄마가 음식을 하면 옆에서 되게 기웃거리고 귀찮게
하는 그런 꼬마였었거든요 그래서 (뭔가 하면) 엄마가 하면 나도 다 따라 하고싶고 막
그랬기 때문에 엄마는 위험하다고 가스레인지 근처, 불 근처에는 잘 못 오게 하잖아요, 보통.
수제비를 만들 때는 좀 달랐어요. 네, 왜냐하면 제 임무가 명확하게 있었습니다. 엄마가
밀가루 반죽을 하면 그 반죽이 되게 부드럽단 말이에요. 근데 그 반죽을 저도 찰흙처럼 막
이렇게 조물조물하면서 보통 얇게 만들어서 뚝뚝 뜯어서 먹어요. 그런데 저는 애기라서 잘
못했죠. 그래서 제가 만든 것은 막 두껍고 못생기고 막 그런 반죽이었어요. 그런데도
불구하고 엄마랑 같이 반죽을 해서 같이 만든 음식이다 보니까 그걸 먹을 때 제가 만든 게
나오면 맛이 없어도 맛있고 막 그랬어요. 그리고 “아~ 이거 못생긴 거 모야? 현실이가 만든
거야?” 막 이러면 그냥 그 자체가 되게 재밌었던 것 같아요. 그래서 저는 수제비 만들 때가
좀 약간 파티 같은 느낌?!!! 뭔가 재밌는 느낌?! 그런 것들이 있어서 수제비를 되게 좋아했던
것 같습니다.
그러면 다음 질문입니다.
4. 요리하는 것을 좋아하나요? 가장 편안하게 만들 수 있는 음식이 있다면요?
네, 요리하는 것을 좋아하는 편입니다. 그리고 최근에 말씀드린 것처럼 유튜브 채널들을
통해서 레시피 공급을 받고 있는데 제일 편하게 만들 수 있는 음식이 뭐냐라고 했을 때
아무래도 요즘 가장 많이 만들어 먹는 ‘감자 오이샐러드’가 있을 것 같아요. 하도 감자랑
오이를 많이 먹어서 남편이 “우리 주식이 감자랑 오이 아니냐?” 이럴 정도로 되게 자주 해
먹었거든요. 그러다 보니까 그나마 제 손에 많이 익어서 요즘엔 그게 가장 편하게 해 먹을 수
있는 음식이 된 것 같습니다.
다음 질문입니다.
9. 그러면 이제 그렇게 커피도 끊고 술도 끊고 또 채식 위주로 식단을 하면서 신체적
정신적으로 어떻게 느껴지나요? 변화가 있었나요?
되게 중요한 질문이죠? 어 지금 이거는, 음... 제가 말할 수 있는 게 저는 그냥 건강해
지려고만 했지 이렇게 될 것까지라고 예상하지 못했는데 엄청난 자유와 해방감을 느꼈어요.
이게 뭐냐면 제가 딱 커피를 끊은 날 아침에 제 팀원이랑 만나서 미팅을 하게 됐었거든요.
근데 저도 모르게 제가 이렇게 말하고 있는 거예요. 내가 근(약) 20년이 넘게 중독돼 있던
것에서 내가 해방됐다. 내가 중독을 끊었다. 이렇게 얘기를 하고 있는 거예요. 저도 모르게.
그죠 저는 카페인 중독이었죠. 근데 이렇게 어떤 중독에서 해방되는 게 이렇게 자유로운
기분을 줄지 저는 미처, 이것까지는 생각해 본 적이 없어요. 근데 그때 제가 생긴 자신감은
엄청 큰 거였어요. 아 난 이제 뭐든지 할 수 있겠다! 내가 이런 걸 끊었다니! 이런 느낌.
그런데 이런 자신감이 어디에서 또 오냐면 실제로 제 신체가 많이 바뀐 거예요. 첫 번째로
소화가 너무 잘 되는 신체로 바뀐 거예요. 제가 아까 얘기를 안 드린 것 같은데 카페인을
많이 섭취했을 경우에 부작용 중의 또 하나가 소화불량이라는 게 있거든요. 제가 진짜
심각한 소화불량이었어요. 만성 소화불량에 가까울 정도로 그래서 조금만 제 양(소화할 수
있는 양)보다 많이 먹거나 좀 이렇게 느끼한 음식을 막 많이 먹거나 아니면 좀 무거운
음식을 막 먹잖아요. 그러면 소화가 안 돼요. 안 되는 느낌이 너무 싫어 그럼 저는 토를
합니다. 그 정도로 소화불량이 되게 심한 사람이었거든요. 아침에 먹은 채소·과일 주스
아무리 주스 많이 먹어도 500ml 이상 마시기가 어렵거든요. 그거 먹으면 배불러요. 근데
소화가 안 될 일이 없어요. 소화 너무 잘 되고 점심에 먹은 한식도 어떨 때는 양이 조금
많아요. 어저께 주말이어서 밖에 나와서 외식을 했어요. 제가 주말에는 일종의
치팅데이처럼 그냥 먹고 싶은 걸 먹거든요. 그래서 밖에 나와서 오므라이스를 먹었는데 그
오믈렛 하나에 계란이 네 개가 들어갔대요. 제가 한 끼에 절대 먹지 않을 양이죠. 계란
4개는, 무거운 양이었는데 그걸 다 먹고, 남김없이 다 먹고도 소화가 다 잘됐어요. 평소와
다르게 평소에 제가 그것도 소화를 잘 못 시켜요. 그래서 제가 소화 불량이 해결이 됐고
그리고 또 너무 좋은 것, 너무 좋은 거. 이건 진짜…. 잠을 잘 자게 된 거! 막 눈물 나오려
그래... 아... 진짜 여러분 잠을 잘 자게 되는 것만큼 천국이 따로 없는 것 같아요. 이게 처음에
커피를 끊자마자 그렇게 된 건 아닌 것 같고 커피 끊고 한 일주일 정도 지나고 점점
좋아지더니 지금은 한... 한 달 정도 됐거든요. 커피 끊은 지. 그러니까 이게 더 점점
좋아지는 것 같아요. 뭐가 좋아지냐? 수면의 질이 점점 더 좋아지는 걸 느껴요. 그래서 밤에
자고 나면 아침에 예전에는 느끼지 못했던 그런 가벼움을 느껴요. 상쾌한 것. 그래서 제
신체가 이렇게 기능이 막 좋아지니까 활력이 생기니까 진짜 여러분, 그냥 계속 자신감이
생기는 것 같아요. 아, 나 더 많은 일을 되게 생산적으로 할 수 있겠구나, 그리고 피곤하면 또
이제 에너지가 이렇게 레벨이 떨어지면 스트레스도 쉽게 받았잖아요. 짜증도 막 자주 나고
이러는데 제 신체가 건강해지고 이제 에너지 레벨이 높아지니까 이 스트레스도 별로 안
받는 것 같아요, 여러분 스트레스도 더 강해지는 것 같고 그래서 지금 굉장히 좀 다른 삶을
살고 있다고 말하고 싶어요.
English
Hi everyone! It's Helena from AlphaKorean Class. The topic of today's podcast is 'Food'.
Today, we will be talking about not just food but also health and our personal relationships
with food. I recently read a book, and it really changed the way I think about food. As a
result, I have changed my eating habits.
So I planned this podcast because I wanted to share with you all what happened to me, what
changed, both physically and mentally. I also hope that this podcast becomes a chance for
you all to think again about what you eat.
7. Then how did your thoughts on food change after you read this book?
Hmm. Actually, before I read this book, I hadn't thought much about food. And if I did have
any thoughts about food, it might sound weird, but all I thought was "which one is tasty?".
'This is delicious. That one's awful.' That was basically it. If it was delicious, then it was good,
and if it wasn't, it was bad My thoughts on food were very basic thoughts like that. Besides
that, the only time when I was serious about food was only when I was dieting. So apart from
any other thing, whenever I was on a diet, I always felt extremely guilty when I ate a lot. As
for what other relationships I had with food, I always felt that, in order to diet properly, I had
to force myself to eat things that I didn't like like chicken breast and the like So after reading
this book, what changed was that I started to ask is this food 'alive' or is it 'dead'. I started to
see it that way instead. It was a complete change in perspective. Compared to before, when
I think of food that was 'alive' I think of fruits and vegetables, and foods that have not been
processed much before eating. As for 'dead' food? Uhm, that would be processed foods.
Let's take potatoes for example. If you boil potatoes, the shape or form of the potato still
remains. Even though it was steamed, it's still close to its 'living' shape. But potato chips, for
example, it's lost its shape, and has undergone a lot of processing. Foods like that are
considered 'dead', I now look at it from that perspective. Instead of thinking, 'is it tasty or
not?' I now ask, 'is it alive or is it dead?' I think there is now a big gap between now and
before.
8. Was there a moment that made you feel that you really had to change your eating habits?
To paraphrase, after reading this book, I could have just dropped it and forgotten about it I
didn't have to put it into practice. This question is asking why I had to implement the contents
of the book. I think I have to talk about coffee firt. What I am drinking here is lemon water.
Usually when filming a podcast episode I drank ice americanos quite often. You all may not
have seen it, but I always had some kind of beverage next to me. I also used to drink two or
three cups of coffee everyday. You know the coffee capsules that give you one shot per cup?
but it's not one shot per cup(for me). I would used at least two shots(extract) of it. So I was
obviously consuming an insane amount of caffeine. But one day, I started to get bad
headaches a lot. It wasn't just a little bit of pain; I could hear this high pitched beeping sound,
like someone was firing some high frequency waves in my head. The headaches would put
me in a terrible mood. Also, my skin has always been a bit sensitive Whenever I was
stressed, it would immediately turn red and inflamed. I would often break out in rashes. I also
couldn't sleep well. You know how it feels when you sleep for 8 hours, but you wake up, and
it seems like you only slept for 1 hour? I was tired all day. I would eat breakfast and feel
tired, and the same after lunch and dinner. My body was chronically fatigued. I had been
feeling like that a lot recently. I came across this book when I was feeling, with certainty, that
my body was in a bad place. In this book, there is a chapter about how bad coffee is for the
body. As I read that, "Oh! That's me!" and felt like it was talking about me. Also in this book,
the author says, "Coffee is a carcinogen," "Coffee is a toxic substance," both very terrifying
statements. If it was before, I would have said "Drinking coffee depends on your tastes," and
continued to drink it. But the moment I read this book, it hit me really hard, and I could not
refute it. I thought, 'so that's what it is!' 'So that's why my body feels so bad.' 'My body
systems are all messed up!' Those thoughts came to mind and the first thing I did was to quit
drinking coffee. coffee machine. Not too long afterwards, I also quit drinking alcohol. Sounds
like a lot, right?! But doing this was easier than I'd thought. But doing this was easier than I'd
thought. It was because I'd read a book about improving eating habits, instead of just a book
of recipes. I think I will read more books like this going forward. If I don't know something,
then I may make mistakes or ignore it because I don't know. But if I do learn more about
something I didn't know before, I find it hard to continue doing it (making the same mistake).
Once I know the plain truth about something I become unable to ignore it. That is why I
stopped drinking coffee and alcohol Ah, some of you might misunderstand me. When I say
that I am stopping coffee and alcohol, it doesn't mean that I will never take one sip of them
ever again. It just means that I have removed them from my daily routine. I told you I used to
drink two cups of coffee a day. And in the case of alcohol, let me make an example. If I was
filming that day, and it was a difficult shoot, I would drink a class to celebrate finishing. Or I
would drink because I was happy the week was over When it came to alcohol, I was always
very indulgent with alcohol I don't want to drink it, at least until my body recovers so I just
stopped.
Next question.
9. Now that you have stopped drinking coffee and alcohol, and have gone vegetarian for the
most part, how do you feel physically and mentally? Have there been any changes?
A very important question, isn't it? For this one, um... what I can say? Initially, I just wanted
to become healthier. I never expected things to become like this. I felt a great sense of
freedom, of being liberated. The very morning that I quit coffee I had a meeting with one of
my team members. But without even realising it, this is what I said: "I've been liberated from
an addiction of 20-plus years. I have ended my addiction. " That was what I said.
Unconsciously. I was a caffeine addict. But I had never thought that I would become free of
an addiction, that I would feel so free But I gained a lot of confidence at that moment. 'I can
do anything!' 'Who knew I could quit this?' As for where this confidence comes from, it
comes from the changes I have seen in my body. The first is that my digestion has become
so much better. I don't think I said this earlier, but one of the side effects of excess
consumption of caffeine is indigestion (dyspepsia). I had terrible dyspepsia. It was almost
chronic. So if I ate even just a little more than I could digest or if I ate something really
greasy or heavy my digestion would be thrown out of whack. And because I hate feeling that
way, I would throw up. That's how bad it was. I had severe indigestion. When I drink the
veggie and fruit juice in the morning, even if I drink a lot, I find it hard to drink more than
500mL. That's enough to fill me up. But I don't feel like my digestion isn't working. It works
just fine. When I eat Korean food for lunch, sometimes the serving size may be large.
Yesterday was the weekend, so we ate out. I take weekends as my cheat day and eat
whatever I want So when we went out, I had an omurice. That 1 omelet actually had four
eggs in it I would never eat that if I made it myself 4 eggs is a heavy amount. But after eating
all of it, I still felt fine, no dyspepsia, which is different from before. Before, I could never
digest all that. So now, my indigestion has been solved. And one other good thing. This one
is really... I now sleep very well! Oh, I'm about to cry... Ah... you guys Being able to sleep
well feels like I am in paradise I don't think it happened immediately after I quit coffee. It
became better about a week after I stopped. I think it's been... about a month now. since I
stopped drinking coffee and it gets even better. What gets better, you ask? I can feel that my
sleep quality is much better. So after a night of sleep, in the morning I can now feel that
lightness that I couldn't feel before. So refreshing. So as my body becomes better, and my
energy, my vitality, increases I truly feel that I have more confidence, everyone I can do more
tasks much more productively. Also, when you are tired, your energy falls, and you get
stressed easily. Yeah. I would feel annoyed and irritated. But as my body gets better, my
energy has also increased, so I don't feel stressed like before, you all. I have gotten even
better with handling stress I would say that I am now living a completely different life.
So today, I talked about food and health, and also shared with you all how you can love
yourself through the food you eat As I said at the very beginning, I really hope that this gives
you the opportunity to think once more about the food you eat If you liked today's video,
make sure to click like and subscribe. I will be back next time with an even more interesting
and useful episode. Until next time, I hope you remain healthy and happy. Bye!