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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I desperately wish I could go cold turkey on eating. It is such a difficult thing to regulate for me, I want to simply give it up like I did for nicotine.
Mmm cold turkey.
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Not bad. Nice, hot mustard. Good bread. The turkey's a little dry... The turkey's a little dry? Oh foul accursed thing! What demon from the depths of hell created thee?
I've quit a nicotine addiction of 11 years cold turkey. That was the easiest because I self regulated most of the time and never reached pack a day. More like pack a week max. Urge to smoke faded within a week.
I've quit a cannabis addiction of 8 years cold turkey. That was harder, because I vaped every hour I was conscious. So widthdrawal was pretty fucking awful, but I managed.
Food is crazy hard for me. I was in a 7/11 after every work shift. I got into a really bad delivery food habit during covid lockdowns. I hadn't cooked my own meals regularly for over 12 years. It was fucking up my health and self esteem severely. I wasn't a ham planet only because I'm abnormally tall. Still, ideal for me is 220lbs and my worst was 290lbs.
I did extended fasting. You can quit cold turkey, it's the hardest thing I ever did. Had to give my roommate my pay cards to hide from myself when I was on work week or I'd keep breaking early. Deleted saved pay info from web browsers. First three days are the worst. I'd go 2-3 weeks in a row and then take a month break. Longer is too dangerous or I'm too risk adverse. Either way. Repeated until goal weight. Yadya Yadya drank mineral slurry to not die, not getting into it here.
After that the addictive urges to buy a bunch of candy, carbs, and junk food slowly faded but I had to learn new habits. That's also very hard for a depressive person. I've managed so far to buy raw unprocessed foods for lunch (I don't do breakfast) and my roommate and I take turns cooking calorie wise HelloFresh dinner meals for now. Slowly getting better at cooking. Eventually I'll wean off of this service. I'm just trying not to relapse for now.
My mindset until I'm feeling confident is anything highly processed is an evil virus of capitalist satan and I have to avoid it lol. It's easier since it's in combination with boycotting American owned/imported everything that I can.
So it can be done. Just don't develop a new different eating disorder in the process.
Very inspirational, thanks for sharing! What mineral slurry would you consume, if you don't mind me asking? I quit cigarettes 8 years ago cold turkey no issues, I'm currently trying to muster willpower to wean myself off of cannabis, but binging food when I'm at home is still something I have not had much luck with yet.
I've fasted before. Just three days so I can eat normally on the 4th and not having worry about refeeding syndrome. I'm pretty sure hes talking about your daily electrolyte requirements
I bought nu salt(potassium chloride) and added that to regular salt to my jug of water(2L) and a Cal+Mag pill. I didn't do long fasts so it didn't really matter for me, but they are crucial for any extended fast.
Do smoothies/liquid ish things instead... Protein powder + spinach leaves+ any combination of blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, pineapple, bananas ..