Eating breakfast every day.
My eating habits were so dysfunctional that I can only describe them as a disorder. It affected all areas of my life, from sleep to energy to mood. I didn’t know the core problem was my eating habits, all of my problems just meshed together.
One evening I decided that my only goal for the next day was to eat breakfast. Not lunch, not dinner, not go to the gym, not get any work done or change the world. Just eat something when I wake up. I made a beautiful baguette stuffed with everything delicious and placed it by the bed before going to sleep, so I didn’t even have to get out of bed to achieve my goal.
Once I got my breakfast, I automatically got lunch and dinner too. Lots of other habits naturally fell into place when I wasn’t starving.
That as 15 years ago. I’ve not missed breakfast since. I’ve still got tons of issues. But this one, tiny thing, made a massive positive difference.
Asking that my doctor take the symptoms in my sinuses more seriously.
Being gay³
Having boundaries
Thinking of myself as attractive
Accepting that a lot of advice is bad advice and that a lot of people are confidently incorrect AND heavily damaged
Accepting myself
Deciding to continue to actively try to be a better person
Learn about psychology
Going back to school
Stopping painting
Smiling more
Actually learning how to stretch
Getting a mini split heat pump system
Cut contact with family and friends who were bad for my mental health.
Good Chair, good mattress, the right pillow, no sugar consumption, vegetarian diet,
Everyone should try going vegan. You don’t have to stay a vegan forever. You don’t have to preach to others. You don’t have to do it for animal welfare or the environment or anything other than you.
But you should try it. For you.
Yeah due to my parents i used to eat meat daily, and not little! And the meat they buy that was cheapest of the cheap!
I am mostly vegetarian, eating meat only once a week and not much but then also the good one! We are made to mostly eat vegtables, nuts and fruits! Plus its lots cheaper
Edit: Only reason why once a week meat is for my bf who wants it and because i really need more low effort seasonal vegie recepies
I wish I got a biometric scale way earlier than I did.
This thing is like cheat codes
Can you explain the benefits?
Washing my hair everyday. I had very thin hair for 20 years and now it’s actually growing back. I have an incredibly greasy scalp and face, and it was likely sebum plugs blocking the follicles. Plus, I’m very sensitive to the feeling of product or grease on me, so it feels so much better.
and short course of oral medication for severe atopic dermatitis, although it dint work immediately i did see change months later, but i dont have access to that now due to insurance issues, and MDs are very resistant to giving oral medication for AD since its an immunosuppresant, topical barely is able to contain it.
Knives that don’t suck. Also getting chickens. I love them so much, great pets and they lay eggs :)
Dude chickens are the best. Some of them can be wicked smart too. I miss mine.
And I highly recommend sharpening your knives with a sharpening stone or whetstone. It makes such a huge difference to how fun it is to be in the kitchen.
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Getting rid of social media. Reddit/lemmy i keep for news.
A good mattress.
Adderall. Started taking it at 34 and ever since I can prioritize tasks, finish things, relax…
Getting and replacing my CPAP.
I waited way too long to get my first CPAP. When it started wearing out, I waited way too long to replace it, and the new one is just as magical. Actually, it’s a tiny bit better with all the newer features
Lexapro and a bidet
Top down, bottom up approach, solid.
Avoiding foods with ingredients I don’t understand.
I feel so much better these days. Two years running.
No shit man. They were adding some kind of proteens in my food. I ain’t eating no teen for sure!
I only eat noob teens.
Get a dictionary. It helps with understanding words you don’t understand.
What do you mean by “ingredients you don’t understand”? There’s a woo trend that does this, and they usually run from very harmless, everyday stuff.
I’m assuming they’re talking about things like gums, emulsifiers, stabilisers etc
Exactly, I hear people say “don’t eat food with ingredients you can’t pronounce”, and I’m like “dude, your poor vocabulary skills don’t change how healthy a food is”.
And then people are afraid of Vitamin C (“Ascorbic Acid”).
