• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    Sitting at my desk at work is probably the biggest health risk I face.

    I eat well, exercise, drink moderately (not every day, never more than two, almost always one drink only), don’t smoke, have sex every day, manage my blood pressure, really try to be good to my body and do things to reduce anxiety but the enforced idleness of desk job is for sure unhealthy.

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    I’ve gotten into the habit of eating and drinking things fast because of limited time on break and now my digestive system is in terrible shape

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    6 pack of beer almost every night for the past 3 months. Doctor refuses to help me unless I go to rehab, but it’s not feasible to spend that much time away from home.

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      Husband was drinking 3-4 a night and I was freaking out about it, he got it down to 1-2 by not buying it in packs except on weekend. Like he will stop at the corner store and get one beer for after work.

      If you buy only one on your way home, instead of a six pack, do you think you would go out and get more, or might it work for you as it did for him?

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        I managed to quit for a week by buying one at a time plus a six pack of non alcoholic beer. Trying it out again today.

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          Good luck to you! A beer, a healthy supper, a walk in the night before bed. You can build healthy habits not just unhealthy ones. Do things to replace that beer. Yin yoga is really relaxing too, good bedtime practice.

  • Acamon@lemmy.world
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    Comfort eating. Before I got adhd meds I had zero impulse control, so I’d eat nothing or eat everything. I would be 75% through a giant bag of snacks, and I’d be actively not enjoying them and wanting to stop, but I just couldn’t. I’d stop and put them away and ten seconds later I’d be back eating, even though I was feeling sick and gross.

    On meds, that’s stopped and I’ve realised that my craving for snacks is all about comfort, stimulus, and self regulation, and nothing to do with hunger. But even knowing that, I struggle to bother with other harder but healthier ways of stimulating and relaxing, when I could just eat crackers with thick slabs of salty butter, or alternate between dark chocolate and salty peanuts. It’s not the worst, but I’m very conscious of that it’s not really about the food and so it feels like a lot of empty calories just to chill me out a little.

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    6 hours ago

    I eat too much.

    It would be too little sleep, but that is society’s fault for putting early risers on a pedestal and not being accommodating of night owls.