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Seriously. Quitting cigarettes is childs play compared to eating healthy. I've managed to not smoke for years after quitting cold turkey. I've been trying to lose weight for a decade or more with varying degrees of success and failure. If I could just never have food and be fine, I would have been healthy a long time ago. But your body requires food, often multiple times a day. And life doesn't always give you the time or options you need to keep healthy. And not even getting into the horrible nutrition education I've had my entire life, it's like everything was set up for me to fail, and then everyone's mad at me for failing, like it wasn't the expected outcome.

@Steve @shish_mish There is one rule I follow: no packaged snacks. Any snacks I want, I make at home. I got into it for environmental reasons, but after I went vegan, it was the main principle stopping me from going for all of those vegan junk food options. Instead, I make bliss balls and, occasionally, cookies or other treats. Those combined with fruit make great snacks while not destroying my health.

Oh, I also pretty much always go for WFPB recipes, even for snacks.

The nice thing about just saying no to food is that you don't have to do it for as long as those guys with a drug addiction. So that's a good point.

Careful there. Breatharians might like a word with you.

Yeah, it's a serious problem for me. I'm largely channeling those feelings of hatred into reminding myself not to do that. Perhaps not the healthiest approach, but it's been working so far.

Was it at least on a sandwich?

I bet you're hooked on water also, degenerate.

Interesting. I didn’t have a hard time giving up food, I quit about three years ago, but I drink constantly

What helped me drink a lot less soda was to begin looking at the sugar content on everything. A can has 75% of your daily recommended max intake, a bottle has 125%. Combined with the amount of sugar in a lot of other things, I’m pretty sure many Americans consume like double the amount of sugar they should pretty often. Plus, the 50 grams they recommend is still a lot of sugar and you shouldn’t be even consuming that much

That's okay bud, I'm proud of you! :)

I do keto yearly to cut weight. Makes portions just very easy for me. For some quick fast food options in a pinch, McDonald's triple with cheese* sans bun (easy to order on mobile), extra pickles/lettuce. Chipotle/Moe's/Qdoba lots of options. I like a double meat salad with fajita veg, cheese, sour cream, salsa of choice, no rice/bean/corn salsa. Wings/salad at lots of pizza joints, verify they're not fried. Panera salads, just check the dressings. Greek restaurants usually have a nice selection of salad or grilled meat and veg options just nix the rice or bread.. and sadly hummus.