Fucking up my sleep schedule.
Also kinda abusing sleep medication when I get really depressed, I just take a bunch of sleeping pills so I can essentially skip time. Like a free trial of death.
This minus the pills. I have a smart watch that clearly shows that I don't recover well if I go to bed late, but I always go to bed an hour later than I should ideally go, and always end up sleep deprived. I desperately need to cut this shit out.
Comfort Eating.
I don't drink. I don't smoke. I tried weed and found it uninteresting and never did anything harder. I exercise regularly.
But I'll still never be the platonic ideal of a "healthy person", because whenever I'm sad, I need processed sugar to feel like a person again. And brother, does life give me reasons to be sad.
For me it's impulse eating. I badly need impulse control in many areas of my life.
Samesies. I remember back in college powering through a writing assignment with a 2L bottle of Coke and a 1lb. bag of M&Ms. Totally not healthy, but I learned later that it has to do with the relationship between insulin and neurotransmitters, like dopamine.
I think I need to read up on that link more.
Lots of sitting. Both on my job and in my free time.
Wow this thread makes me comment multiple times, and I feel shittier and shittier the more comments I relate with.
Ikr
Life is sitting. Sit up in bed, sit in car, sit in office, repeat until bedtime. And if you think about it - laying down is really just the advanced/ultimate form of sitting.
I go without changing bedsheets for a bit longer than i should
Hey, me too!
Add me to the unwashed bedsheets club lmao
It's just so much of an ordeal imo
I think people will change their mind when presented with facts
That and having to constantly check myself for just being human and not being the beacon of perfection I was supposed to be.
My desk job
Browsing the Internet on my phone instead of sleeping. It is indeed what I am currently doing.
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.
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.
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?
Doom scrolling
Vaping, doomscrolling, not eating healthy, binge drinking sometimes. The usual
Vaping or drinking.
This is the 80th comment and no one has said "drugs" (unless you count alcohol). Maybe drug addicts have better things to do with their time than browse lemmy!
maybe drug addicts just have More ubhealthy habits
I think we should count alcohol, tobacco and vapes as drugs. They're controlled substances, after all.
Eating at 01:00.
I clench my jaw day and night, like constantly. Not intentionally, and I wear a mouthguard to protect my teeth at night, but I'm not really in control of the clenching and it causes downstream effects. Some mornings I can't open my jaw all the way. I had the feeling of water trapped in my ear (I thought it was from using the pool at the gym), but the ENT told me it was from TMJ. At least a couple times a week I end up with a headache that starts in my jaw and teeth, radiates up my sinuses, and on really bad days, results in light sensitivity and blurred vision.
Not sleeping like... Right now
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.
I smoke.
Addicted to casual sex, mostly anonymous. It's a huge health risk but I can't stop
Stay safe, person.
My homecooked meals aren't healthy enough! My eating habits are too salty with too little vegetables.
Yeah, I'm somewhat of a health nut otherwise.
Y'all know about Tostito's Queso in the jars? I go through a tall jar per week. I'm sure the strong, hazy IPAs are also not on the healthy food pyramid.
Is it the salsa con queso or just a plain cheese? Because for some reason the salsa con queso jars are like crack to me. I can eat a whole jar in maybe 2 days, so I only purchase it very sparingly lmao.
Salsa con queso... I don't think they do just cheese.
I'm sure the strong, hazy IPAs are also not on the healthy food pyramid.
But some lines we do not cross.
See: Walmart Great Val-u Rainbow Chip Cookies.
And whisky. And so, so so, so-so so much tea.
Ha, yeah... I hunt for good beer. I'm from the U.S., I've been to about 500 breweries in 7 countries. The search will go on!
Sitting too much and sugar
Politics
Over the years having supported one party or the other I can tell you that it's all about people wanting power over others and then ensuring that they keep it. Their reality is totally different than the reality we, the 99%, live in that they can no longer even relate to us. There is no chance that they would actually understand the issues that affect regular people and then offer solutions that would actually solve those issues. Best advice is to simply try to enjoy life. Have you ever been a big fan of a sports team? They lose and you get depressed? Politics is no different. The players of the team that you admire couldn't care less about you and neither do politicians of either party. They only tell you what they think that you want to hear so you will vote for them and keep them in power
the connection between politics and sports tells me youre a well-off white male.
I understand that you have no threat of material loss when the wrong 'sports team' is in power, many people will actually face the consequences of the elites actions though.
I understand if you want to ignore this fact, but it is a fact.
That i don't go for enough walks being terminally online.
stay at my desk for too long
Still smoking while drinking but now only drink 2 days a week and then completely dry the other 5 days
Browsing lemmy
I browse all and usually find groups that I had no idea even existed
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
I drink a lot of soda
Bad sleeping habits and eating high sodium food, besides that I don't drink, smoke, consume sugar, or do drugs, so I'm good.
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.
Sex every day? Damn. My libido can be wild but that's next level.
It's fantastic, I never thought any guy could keep up without feeling like I was too demanding or something. My ex was a once a week guy and I thought frustration was an unavoidable state. But husband wants it every day, more than 10 years in now. Sometimes twice, LOL. It's one of the things you have to make time for. I prioritize sex and exercise because if you don't, life and work will expand to fill that time.
Was smoking but thankfully I quit that before kids. Currently it is sleep. Both kids are night owls and I just want an hour of computer time at night 😜.
I'm in a fight club, but I'm not supposed to talk about it.
sounds like good exercise
Sugar addiction
Ending conversations quickly
Smoking, doomscrolling, and overeating
Vaping daily and an expensive meal + six pack every Friday night.
Craving sugary drinks. I tend to get a big craving late afternoon. I try to stay away from sodas mostly, but I still wind up drinking sweet tea or lemonade, and an energy drink a couple days a week.
Unsweetened black iced tea mixed with lemonade has half the sugar, enough caffeine to help, and tastes really good.
I will try that.
dermatillomania
Energy drinks . Can't really function without them at this point
Smoking of course.
Overindulgence with a splash of occasional misanthropy
Hard to narrow it down to just one. I'd say it's a toss up between my eating habits and weed.
Sweets
Smoking meth and imbibing.
Tossup between how much caffeine I drink and not working out.
