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I occasionally will get fast food. I gave it up for the most part like 2 years ago, but I still get it like once every 3 months or so. It’s usually because I’m stressed out or depressed. It never tastes as good as I think it will, and I always feel kind of sick afterwards.
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Instructions unclear: buying more beer! There’s years of jeers and cheers and no need for fears or leers or what have you
Your rhyming words 😆 I shit you not, I was literally just watching a Dr Seuss documentary before I came back here & read your comment 😆
I never buy food that is unhealthy for me… but part of how I measure health is mental health. Something that’s modestly unhealthy for my body but enjoyable (like sweetened chocolate) is, on the balance, healthy for me as long as it’s in moderation.
Yup. Healthy is such a funny term. Kings Hawaiian rolls certainly aren’t a super nutritional food, but the dopamine hit I got from enjoying 3 last night brought me back after managing my partner’s mental breakdown, and also helped me fall immediately to sleep. Which is less healthy for me: chronic poor sleep and stress or 3 sweet delicious pieces of bread?
I do not live a healthy life. I feel zero guilt about that, but am able to recognize it’s not the best for me.
I’m a fan of a good bad plan, and also a glutton in most things I enjoy
I’ve kindof been on a journey of doing less and less stuff that is bad for me since I was about 20.
The only recreational drug I do is chamomile. No alcohol. Not even caffeine. No fast food. Nothing with added sugar. Very rarely anything with any significant mount of natural sugar. My rule of thumb is nothing sweeter than a tomato or red bell pepper.
(Full disclosure, sugar gives me really bad acute symptoms. So that helps the motivation.)
I maintain a weight not terribly far from my ideal weight most of the time. It’s getting close to the holiday season now (Thanksgiving is basically Halmark brand hedonism in the U.S.) and I’m loosening my restrictions a little bit and indulging in things that are a little more caloric. I bought some almond butter the other day. That’s very caloric to the point that I don’t usually eat it, but I’ll go slow on it and cut it back out around January 2nd.
Lest you think I’m some kind of saint, I’m a lot better at not doing things that are bad for me than at doing things that are good for me. I don’t maintain a regular fitness routine, for instance, which is very far from optimal.
Edit: Oh. One amendment. About twice a year, I’ll do grocery store sushi. (Usually a rainbow roll.) And I think it’s fair to say those have some added sugar. And when I eat at restaurants, I mostly avoid places that don’t have things on my diet and then always get the thing on the menu that’s most in line with my diet, but I’m usually not strict about checking the ingredients for things like added sugar. Whatever the case, none of the things mentioned in this amendment ever cause me any noticeable guilt.
Ah! You had to mention those delicious grocery store sushi rolls. Those are one of my weaknesses too. And I do them more than twice a year! Okay I just went out and got one haha
No alcohol. Not even caffeine. No fast food. Nothing with added sugar. Very rarely anything with any significant mount of natural sugar. My rule of thumb is nothing sweeter than a tomato or red bell pepper.
(Full disclosure, sugar gives me really bad acute symptoms. So that helps the motivation.)
SAME! It’s taken me decades to finally stop craving sugar but the last 10 years definitely I noticed every time I ate sugar,
within 30 minutes I’d get symptoms like a cold with a runny nose and severe aches and pains in all my joints and muscles, and severe depression and brain fog. I’m serious these symptoms set in within 30 minutes of eating this stuff, because I was feeling perfectly fine before I ate it. The correlation was undeniable. It’s the sugar.
The last time it happened to me I simply ate a bowl of fruit.
Same all around with anything bread products. So I can’t eat sugar, bread, not even eat fruit anymore!
Weirdly, the symptoms I get from sugar consumption are incredibly painful abdominal cramps and lower-GI issues. And the last things I’ve eaten to trigger those were granny smith apples and bing cherries.
Regarding grains (including wheat), I gave those up when I was about 20, about the same time I quit sugar. All my symptoms went away when I quit both of those and honestly I’ve never tried enough wheat/grains since to see if it even bothers me. But then again, I don’t really feel like reintroducing wheat would enrich my life to speak of, so I haven’t ever really felt motivated to even test if grains give me symptoms. I just don’t eat it.
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Donuts are a mental health food. Why feel guilty?
I vape, so, yeah. It stopped me from smoking, and I’m spending less per month on juice and cartridges than I did on smokes. I don’t smell like an ashtray from 8:00 to 20:00 either. But it’s still something I kinda sorta would like not to spend money on.
I took it up after I developed GAD, and despite doing the rounds on meds and picking up healthy habits, I still can’t shake GAD. Probably won’t be able to kick my habit until that’s over and done with
Don’t really mind the adverse health effects. The city I live in is probably doing numbers on my lungs just with car smoke alone.
Sometimes I buy junk food and I feel a little guilty about it. Any time I have junk food like chips(cause I don’t like sweets) I portion it out, but it still makes me think about it.
I do drink alcohol and I do feel bad cause it’s also junk, but with my job it helps me relax after a shit day.
Candy! I’m an adult male in my 30+ and i always try to have some lollipops or candy in my desk even had go to dentist after some months of abuse.
It really depends how unhealthy that thing is. I won’t start smoking, or snort lead paint… But I do have a tendency to buy unhealthy foods on occasion, just not too often.
I drink a bottle of whiskey every weekend
Weed, smoking it definitely ain’t good for me but man do I sleep good
Unfortunately, yes. My relationship with food in particular has always been kind of messy since I was a kid, especially when I’m going through an especially difficult time mental health-wise. But I try to be mindful of that, and eat healthily for the most part.
If I feel like I’ve overeaten that day/the past few days, I can definitely feel pretty guilty. But IMO, most things are fine in moderation. Food is a crucial and wonderful part of life, and I’m uninterested in completely cutting out something I genuinely enjoy.
