When it comes to diet and health, I t’s a never-ending perpetual cycle too. That is to say that if you eat unhealthy foods you will become tired, unable to concentrate, and have memory (and other) problems. This affects every aspect of your life, like learning, work, and home life (e.g., playing with your kids, hygiene, etc), and you end up becoming anxious, depressed, unmotivated, and angrier.
To break this cycle, you have to somehow realize it’s your diet that’s the problem, spend more money on either pre-processed meals, or spend more time and effort (and maybe money too) on cooking from scratch. Then there’s the effort of meal planning, grocery shopping, being organized in the kitchen, doing more dishes, etc. it’s a logistical nightmare for some people.
So you fall back to the easily-obtainable, cheaply-made, ultra-processed, and unhealthy foods. You slip back into your depression, but even harder than before, and you add on the mental torture of how much of a big fat failure you are because you can’t do something that should be so simple.
… I have to stop. I’m starting to feel like this is one of those rants that are turning into one of those ultra-personal emotional dumps that have gone way off topic. I still stand by everything I’ve said though.
It feels like you got to high of expectations on yourself, that you should go from 1 to 100 in a snap, without failure.
That is very hard to do and is setup to fail, you didn’t give yourself a proper chance. Try doing things in small steps, change one thing instead of everything. Maybe choose carbonated water instead of soda once in a while, maybe skip the fries if you’re eating a burger and replace it with cooked potatoes.
But try changing a few stuff at a time, and make theme routine, and when they are routine try changing something else.
Changes take time, changing your life in a swoop is very hard to do, take your time and explore what works for you.
When it comes to diet and health, I t’s a never-ending perpetual cycle too. That is to say that if you eat unhealthy foods you will become tired, unable to concentrate, and have memory (and other) problems. This affects every aspect of your life, like learning, work, and home life (e.g., playing with your kids, hygiene, etc), and you end up becoming anxious, depressed, unmotivated, and angrier.
To break this cycle, you have to somehow realize it’s your diet that’s the problem, spend more money on either pre-processed meals, or spend more time and effort (and maybe money too) on cooking from scratch. Then there’s the effort of meal planning, grocery shopping, being organized in the kitchen, doing more dishes, etc. it’s a logistical nightmare for some people.
So you fall back to the easily-obtainable, cheaply-made, ultra-processed, and unhealthy foods. You slip back into your depression, but even harder than before, and you add on the mental torture of how much of a big fat failure you are because you can’t do something that should be so simple.
… I have to stop. I’m starting to feel like this is one of those rants that are turning into one of those ultra-personal emotional dumps that have gone way off topic. I still stand by everything I’ve said though.
It feels like you got to high of expectations on yourself, that you should go from 1 to 100 in a snap, without failure.
That is very hard to do and is setup to fail, you didn’t give yourself a proper chance. Try doing things in small steps, change one thing instead of everything. Maybe choose carbonated water instead of soda once in a while, maybe skip the fries if you’re eating a burger and replace it with cooked potatoes.
But try changing a few stuff at a time, and make theme routine, and when they are routine try changing something else.
Changes take time, changing your life in a swoop is very hard to do, take your time and explore what works for you.