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Its quite scary really. I find it amazing how much “bad” food starts to disagree with me once I’ve started to be more controlled about what’s going in.
But also how quickly chocolate becomes as addictive as heroin. I do really enjoy being able to have a tiny bit of something and having the self control to stop, rather than just having to abstain entirely.
Occasionally go out for pizza, and I always come home with half in a box - something that seemed literally impossible to me at many points in my life.Weirdly I think there’s a pleasure to not having stuff as well. Learning that little reward for the self control of just making a conscious choice to have something or not.
I’m hungry most of the morning, particularly when I wake up, and just before lunch at 12, having not eaten since about 6pm the night before. But managing to deal with the gentle hunger and then realising it hasn’t been that bad as lunch arrives feels pretty rewarding.
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Weirdly I think there’s a pleasure to not having stuff as well. Learning that little reward for the self control of just making a conscious choice to have something or not.
Very interested in this, for want of a better way of putting it, the anal retentive / masochist / self-denial-but-actually-getting-off-on-it psychology. It is the complete opposite of my personality - traditional 100% glutton, and yet still I feel a touch of recognition when you describe it. Like given the right encouragement/stimulus, a polar reversal might be possible
lemonade
This for me as well. Not to get too shiny-eyed, but after a short bedding-in period of a week or so, once I am in the groove it then "bad" food just doesn't seem quite so enticing or tasty any more.