Yeah I couldn’t see paying that much
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I’m kinda reminded of these ones
They’re associated with the Shrove Tuesday here, and served in most cafés, it’s that time of the year again very soon 
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Probably everything I should not eat except the strawberry lol. Allergies suck probably need to start cleaning up my diet again soon and get back in the gym for my yearly trip in end of July. Hope to make it two trips this year.
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They really do… 
You enjoy cats for me, and I’ll enjoy these treats for you 
I probably have way too much sugar. But then I have seasons when I don’t feel having that much at all. I think my body knows what she’s doing, I let her do her thing 
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I hear you I get it.its not hard to get going it’s addicting. It is a drug.
We aren’t meant to eat the kind of sugar we ingest. But it tastes so good. I get nervous about type 2 diabetes. It’s very common these days.my grandpa was diabetic my adopted grandpa. Satan rest his soul. I was really bad about sugar. Only started being more conscious the last four years due to health issues vertigo stomach issues and I suspect chronic fatigue. Drs hardly ever ever finding anything leaves me with diet. It’s just so dang hard. But once I get it down it’s a piece of cake.
Enjoy for me definitely 
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It’s true, and my ADHD probably makes it even harder to resist. My father has type 2 diabetes… still he eats so much sugar. He seems to have it under control with his medication, for now. Doesn’t mean that I want to try my luck…
Chronic fatigue kinda hits home. Seems like I’m always tired for one reason or another, without really having done much at all.
There really isn’t any logical reason not to cut down sugar… I think I’m going to give it a try. I’ve done it before, and I remember feeling better for it. I appreciate the nudge
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Idk if u have this there but I like the true whip whipped cream to dip fruit it has no oil. Less sugar it’s very good. I even used it to make a lower calorie cheesecake. But with that cream cheese that starts with an n it’s super low fat.
I try to stick more to white meat and whole grains lots of fruit and veggies lot of salads. It gets easier for cereal I try to stick with whole grains like a frosted shredded wheat or the sort. That’s just stuff I try to do when I’m behaving. Then like maybe have a treat once a week
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I’ll have to see if I can find that or something similar here. Low sugar is good… as long as I can at least mostly avoid artificial sweeteners. Those are like tease and denial to me, they make me crave sugar if I didn’t before 
And occasionally give me some digestion issues while doing it.
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Yeah artificial sweetener kills good gut bacteria I try to take probiotics and prebiotics for a month when stomach is unhappy
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I did notice your coke bottle collection in the other thread.
No offense, but… Our bodies haven’t evolved to match what’s available in supermarkets. 
They’re still trained to follow what made sense thousands of years ago, when sugar was something you’d get in tiny amounts if you were lucky.
Our bodies just know what they’re used to. And studies have already shown how gut bacteria affects our desires.
So even if you have cyclical sugar cravings instead of constant ones, here’s another voice telling you to tell your body it doesn’t know what’s best for you.
I mean, if we have to fight our own brains over what’s best for us, why would our bodies be any better at it, right? 
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Those I can at least say are my father’s… But it doesn’t help that I filled them with something just as sugary that also had alcohol
That’s very true…
It’s fun how I’ve been researching desires, and more than once in the name of that I’ve just been indulging in them, even if it didn’t really give me any new information…
It’s interesting about the gut bacteria. That’s definitely very recent information. It’s kinda hard looking for good information about nutrition it seems, so many bad actors who just want to push their products or agenda.
I’ve been getting this message my whole life, so much that I used to abandon my body. But I feel our body is much like a child. Of course she runs right to the candy aisle But if you have a good relationship with her, you can trust her to tell things, like where it hurts or feels weird, or if some place or person feels unsafe. And what she wants too, but maybe not all of those desires are to be fulfilled.
Enjoy~ 
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Yummy and I agree. I mean examples with other things. Like I used to want to eat five or six candy bars and it’d make me sick or when I wasn’t clean yeat and couldn’t stop that and was running through the motions. Addiction can affect us in many different ways including food for comfort. It releases chemicals in our brain when we indulge. To further the bad behavior.
@CelestiaMoon it’s really neat you have your dad’s coke bottle collection my love
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I would Love rinsing those eclairs out of my beard. 
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Isn’t it just
Being unemployed and living with him, so sexy too right. 
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I’ll throw my 2 cents in here 
My opinion/ philosophy on food is…labeling food good/bad can play tricks on our mind. Saying a food is bad can make us feel ashamed for eating it. I think eating foods from nature are probably best for our bodies, along the lines of what @starborn said. I also think eating “bad” food is ok once in awhile. I think I’m probably stating the obvious I’m a hypocrite though. I eat whatever I want
What bothers me more than anything are these fad diets! Anyway…my thoughts didn’t come out as well as they were formed in my mind 
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Ah don’t worry it’ll all Happen for you in time. Nothing wrong with it
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The stress these “good” diets bring us does more damage than good. I’m not saying that some things are not bad for us, sugar being on the top of the list, but obsessing over them I believe causes as much harm than not IMHO
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And make us want it more.
I guess I’m similar? I’m not super restrictive. I just try to stay within a certain weight range and whatever eating or not eating helps me facilitate that is what I’ll do.
Same. My sister-in-law loves them, and I’m just like, “I’ve got an easier diet for you: stop eating three huge meals a day when you don’t exercise and sit at an office desk for work.”
I joke somewhat, but it worries me that she really believes in the crap they try to sell her, too. 
Like, once she did this grapefruit diet thing, and she’s trying to tell me how the acid in the grapefruit is literally entering he body and melting her fat…
There are too many people in the world trying to screw us over for us to be so naive. But, in her case, I’ve done all I can do. 
She only comes to me when she needs something and doesn’t listen to the answers that she doesn’t already agree with. So, I’m just focusing on those who actually talk to me like a person instead of a free self-help service.
Your research has become you.
Yeah… Crap like that makes me so annoyed!
Well, as annoyed as I can be.
Thank you. 
And you’re welcome in the Kitchen of Katya anytime. 
Exactly.
My interest in game design and development sent me on a journey through psychology that got me to thinking that one of the biggest addictions in the world right now might actually be “feeling good.” (Blurring my elaborations because it goes into talking about addiction behaviour.) I’ve noticed that with some people I know (outside of this forum), is that a quick test I can use is whether being pulled away from XYZ makes the person in question angry. 
If it does, it usually means they have an unhealthy relationship with some activity.
A more obvious one to add on top for some of the more extreme cases is if they have a hate-indulgence relationship with it. Like they can’t stop going on about how they hate it, and it stresses them out, but they keep going back. That’s when they’re in so deep that most of us don’t know how to help them.
I keep reminding myself that my body is a creature of habit and comfort to help make sure I don’t fall into any pits. It’s so hard to get out of them that I’d rather just not end up in one again. 
Would it be safe to say that obsessing over anything can be harmful? There’s a healthy amount of letting go of things that we probably need in our lives. Without that, everything is stressful… And stress is harmful.
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This is good shadow work btw At least for me.
The mind-body is such a fascinating creature, and excellent at self-deception There’s a lot of advice against chasing happiness, so that obvious hole I didn’t step into. But I found a similar enough one, and that’s feeling not much at all. Kind of lukewarm feel-good numbness to relax into, that challenges me as little as possible. With challenges exactly when I want them, when I’m craving some dopamine. That way I can also say that I like challenges and chaos and that I’m ready to face them, which means more delicious brain candy 
I’ve also become proficient in hypnotizing others into this same way of being. Sanding out the rough edges, making everything the same kind of fluff. Isn’t it nice? 
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