Biting my nails
I bit my nails my whole life. One day I tasted lime. I hadn’t eaten anything with lime for 3 days. I had wiped my ass maybe 10 minutes prior. That experience yucked me out of biting for good. Been over 2 years now since I’ve so much as nibbled.
Ok so game plan: eat some limes, wait three days, take a shit, profit
But seriously, though, thank you for this story. It will be difficult not to think of this every time I bite my nails now.
Spending too much time on lemmy
Dreading the future.
This
Vaping nicotine. I know I can stop but it’s just a very difficult challenge for me. Still better than smoking cigs but I really need to let this vice go.
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Maybe if it’s like doing the washing or sweeping the floor or something. For addicts it’s just confirmation that they shouldn’t try.
I made it a month once. It’s really seated as more of a psychological addiction for me. I am going to try reading Allen Carr’s “The Easy Way” for quitting vaping to see if I can start the brainwashing process of not “needing” this fix.
When I quit smoking I holed myself up in a dark room with provisions to last a week. It was hell but it worked.
Check out Allan Carr Easy Way. It really really really works
That’s the plan! I read it originally to quit cigs but ended up picking up the vapes.
I quit 3.5 years ago using that book and have had 0 cravings since.
Shoot for getting about 70% right. That is about where the rest of the world ends up too. And the world is still turning. No need to drive yourself nuts doing the impossible.
Taking Ambien. I’d never sleep again though because of my other meds.
Does the Ambien work for you? Does it have negatives for you? Have you tried other stuff? Husband, son, and i all tried it and hated it. Husband now uses trazadone. I use CBN. Son worked to improve his general health.
Yes it works, the side effects are amazing. I have a friend who decoupaged her dishwasher with New York City subway maps on it, and I myself catfished a prominent white supremacist into sending me penis pictures and then hosted a spontaneous antifa meeting discussing it. You really get disinhibited.
My son stumbled downstairs and outside in an ice storm wearing only pajama pants.
I think one day it might be pulled from the market. It also affects memory. But I wouldn’t sleep for years without it. Hope your son was ok.
Agree. I talked to a guy a few years ago at a cannabis convention who thought cbn would be the next big sleep med after rescheduling. It was a good experience with the kid. We thought he was using illegal drugs, so finding out that he took 30 Ambien in 10 days was helpful.
That must have been WILD.
Do you get crazy dreams? I sleep fine but almost never dream, and heard. Ambien gives you wild dreams and have always wanted to take it specifically for the dreams lol
It’s not so much the dreams, it’s the loony things I do on it. One night I hosted a whole antifa meeting in my group where we talked extensively about a very famous white supremacist we catfished into sending me penis pictures and I was high as a kite the whole time.
Fucking eating just too much that I can’t meet my weight loss goals.
I’m not overweight by any means, but if I don’t fix my diet, all the exercise I do isn’t worth nearly as much.
Not encouraging you or anyone to take Ozempic but the fact that they work so well for weight loss proves that there is a biological pathway that reinforces overeating. It’s beyond the dopamine feedback loop - there is an actual biochemical reason that we are compelled to overeat. It validates the idea that being successful at weight management isn’t decided by willpower alone. Some people are just more biochemically predisposed to overeat.
These new GLP-1 receptor agonists have shown promise mitigating many compulsive behaviors from overeating to alcoholism to behavioral compulsions. It’s a new area of pharmacology and I’m super excited to watch them discover novel treatments for all manners of issues.
Exercise isn’t worth nearly as much as eating habits anyway.
A false narrative of exercise being like weight loss currency has been promoted for way too long.
When losing weight, it’s “kilos in the kitchen, grams in the gym”. You can lose weight with no exercise just with a caloric deficit.
Read “the hackers diet” or “the 4 hour body” for more info.
No, but it can help you stay on track. If you’re restricting calories, it gives you a little wiggle room.
Yes and no.
You have to eat less than you consume, and going to the gym doesn’t “burn calories” in a significant enough amount to make a difference. So there you’re right.
However, the biggest factor in your consumption rate is how much muscle you have. You can be laying in bed, but your muscles still need feeding. You just don’t keep muscles very long laying in bed all the time.
So, does the gym help weight loss? No, not directly, but increasing your muscle mass can.
to add to what you’re saying It seems counterproductive to overemphasize exercise over diet or vice-versa. I think adding perspective also helps. -Doing a quick google search it’s alleged that 1-lb of fat requires a caloric deficit of ~3500 calories. Walking 1-mile burns 100± calories which means it would require roughly 35-miles of walking to burn 1-lb of fat. -That’s a challenging proposition to acheive without adding extra food just for increased energy and as you added, that doesn’t necessarily account for increased muscle mass. It’s also pretty easy to develop a nutritional deficiency through diet alone and speaking anecdotally, I’ve never achieved much weight loss without a combination of both diet and exercise.
I have the opposite problem. I don’t eat enough. On several occasions, I have gone upto 3 days without eating. Closer friends are often worried about my nutrition. It’s gotten so bad, that my last 3 girlfriends have made it a topic in the relationship, while I have friends that let me come over for dinner literally any day I want. They then makes sure I eat enough.
To me, eating can be such a chore. It’s like eating is something I have to do just like showering. I can find it rewarding on some occasions, but unlike showering when I feel brand new afterwards, once I eat, I get dumb, slow, bloated, and feel heavy. If I haven’t eaten throughout the day, I feel light, energetic, focused, and free.
Anyway, I find it interesting to be on the other end of unhealthy eating continuum. What about eating makes it hard to stop?
Mmm food is delicious. I just ate a whole wheat sourdough pastry from a local bakery – it was a bialy with caramelized onions. A very perfect summer Saturday snack.
Not a doctor but if you have some will try switching some meals to Soylent or another meal replacement drink. For the past ~7 years my breakfast and usually lunch has been Soylent, and I have a nice big real food meal for dinner.
It’s really easy to track calories with meal replacement drinks and at least for me it’s way healthier than what I was eating previously.
Yeah, chocolate Kachava was a big help for me when I was restricting calories. It’s a healthy high protien meal that’s more convenient than fast food. I added a banana and oat milk, and blended it with crushed ice for a nice smoothie.
Running is surprisingly fun once you get in shape enough to enjoy it – and has an effect on what i eat bc planning to go running later in the day has a pretty big effect on how mindfully i consume. I can’t have a huge meal or chug water last minute and feel good while running.
I have never, ever, in my life enjoyed running. I never got up to long distances, but used to be able to do about 5k without too much trouble. An hour of swimming? No problem. 30 minutes of high intensity rowing? Happy to do that. Cycling 50k? I’m all over that. But running just makes me feel bad.
Exercise is good for you even you don’t lose weight
Adhd meds helped with this, had a dopamine addiction that meant going ham on a lot of thing outside of food as well.
Eating Slim Jims.
How many Slim Jims are you eating, and why do you want to stop?
Buying tiny thinkcentres like the m710q.
It’s the best ever bang for the buck for almost anything except gaming. IMO of course.
Two DDR4 slots, an ssd Plus a 2.5drive.
Mint runs perfektly.
USB 3, some 6 of them IIRC.
Super silent.
You can get one for like 40€ or the double for a quad core.
Plug in two screens and just hack away.
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Working.
