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.
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
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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