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Do you sometimes buy things that are unhealthy for you? (Most people do.) Do you feel guilty for it? or have you accepted it's a normal & kinda necessary part of your life? (self.asklemmy)

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No alcohol. Not even caffeine. No fast food. Nothing with added sugar. Very rarely anything with any significant mount of natural sugar. My rule of thumb is nothing sweeter than a tomato or red bell pepper.

(Full disclosure, sugar gives me really bad acute symptoms. So that helps the motivation.)

SAME! It's taken me decades to finally stop craving sugar but the last 10 years definitely I noticed every time I ate sugar,

within 30 minutes I'd get symptoms like a cold with a runny nose and severe aches and pains in all my joints and muscles, and severe depression and brain fog. I'm serious these symptoms set in within 30 minutes of eating this stuff, because I was feeling perfectly fine before I ate it. The correlation was undeniable. It's the sugar.

The last time it happened to me I simply ate a bowl of fruit.

Same all around with anything bread products. So I can't eat sugar, bread, not even eat fruit anymore!

[–] TootSweet 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weirdly, the symptoms I get from sugar consumption are incredibly painful abdominal cramps and lower-GI issues. And the last things I've eaten to trigger those were granny smith apples and bing cherries.

Regarding grains (including wheat), I gave those up when I was about 20, about the same time I quit sugar. All my symptoms went away when I quit both of those and honestly I've never tried enough wheat/grains since to see if it even bothers me. But then again, I don't really feel like reintroducing wheat would enrich my life to speak of, so I haven't ever really felt motivated to even test if grains give me symptoms. I just don't eat it.