Overthinking while drawing. I'll think to myself "is this too little contrast? Too much? Are the shadows too blurry here? Does this fur look flat? It looks flat. Is the form too blurry around here? Let's try again!" I've always been considered a perfectionist, and that's one of the reasons I blame for a long time between submitting drawings!
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Thinking about a selfish heartless cunt.
Overthinking everything and being a "perfectionist". So hard to finish or even start doing anything.
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.
Spending too much time on lemmy
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.
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Worrying what other people think of me.
I know I shouldnβt care, but itβs hard not to.
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Taking Ambien. I'd never sleep again though because of my other meds.
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.
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.
Thinking, I wish my brain would just stop.
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.
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.
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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.
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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 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. Itβs 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 isnβt 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. Itβs a new area of pharmacology and Iβm 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.
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 100Β± 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.
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