u/Thinker-Bell-761

You're still in me.

What will it take for you to leave?

My thoughts are still tinted with the color of you.

You don't appear in my mind's eye anymore. Your face is gone. Gone are the days your gestures and your energy replayed in my mind over and over again.

You are gone. I made it. I pat myself on the back. It's in the past. I live my life, I don't think of you, I don't suffer, I can't remember the last time I cried.

Yet ...

... when I move, when I plan, when I imagine the world out there, wherever these ephemerial objects are born, wherever these temporary mists arise somewhere in the recesess of my being, they always pass, even if briefly, through the filter of you.

What makes you so special, little man? Why are you like nobody else? Why does it feel like no other man could ever matter? Why you, with your imperfections and frustrations and insecurities, your weaknesses and your needs born of wounds? Why can't I unsee you? Why will I spend the rest of my life acutely aware you exist?

Hi, everyone. I went dairy free and I feel so much better. Turns out I was constantly bloated until I quit. I don't miss dairy at all, for the most part. Really the only thing I really struggle with is coffee. I always drink coffee with milk. I prefer the milk to the coffee as far as this beverage goes. I don't like tea, infusions, or coffee with plant-based milk. And it's hard to avoid this problem since I spend a lot of time in coffee shops due to my work situation. My question is, has anyone ever gotten used to going from lattes to black coffee? I'd just like to hear it's possible, for morale ... Thanks

I get a annoyed whenever I see clips of not so good looking guys rejecting girls for not being pretty enough and there are comments like "have you seen yourself in the mirror?" as if they're supposed to be grateful to get a mid looking person. I'm not talking about the criticism of anybody's looks, but everyone should absolutely walk away from anyone they don't like. People settling are not doing anyone a favor. A husband being with his wife because he can't get better is not a compliment. And also how the hell does unattractiveness cancel anyone's right to preferences and choice. An ugly man is fully within his right to reject a supermodel because she's not his type without getting ostracized. No to settling.

Note: as always a ton of what I never said is understood from my words:

• I am not condoning criticizing or belittling, I just advocate for the right to choose
• I am not saying don't date unattractive people, I'm saying don't date people you DON'T LIKE (big difference)

What I said in the title. Outside of designer clothes, what they sell in clothes stores is ugly as hell. It looks like old rags that need to be thrown out before I even bought anything. And regardless of the vibe, it's mostly really ugly. Obviously a gorgeous model can make a potato sack look good, but on normal people ...

Also I did say STORES plural, it's not like I went to one.

Tenho de dar os parabéns aos planeadores que desenharam o sistema de trânsito. O tempo de espera nos semáforos é maximizado de forma brilhante. Se houver muitos semáforos num cruzamento, fizeram questão absoluta de que se espere em todos e cada um deles.

I am really annoyed by the music videos Youtube suggests. I know my own music, why does it only suggest songs I listen to all the time??? I got it, Youtube. Can't you suggest something else???

Last night I decided to quit sugar, after another ridiculous binge. It's my first day, it's morning, I'm hungry, my stomach is growling, and the only thing I want to do is go for a donut and a coffee. My body absolutely refuses to eat anything else, I don't feel like eating anything on my "allowed list". This is crazy.

Did anyone have the same problem? Any tips on dealing with this?

I just wanted to declare that I'm quitting sugar for good. And it might have been just a few minutes since I quit, but I have never been so determined in my life.

After 2 days of fatigue and headaches, I was bracing myself for a week full of pain and discomfort. To my surprise, I woke up rested today, and the headache is gone. I feel fine. I don't know if it's the water with electrolytes I've been drinking or the extra vitamin C, but I'm happy, whatever it was.

I'm in my second day of quitting, and I'm ready for this headache/migraine to be over.

I'm not very productive in this situation so I spend a lot of time online, researching. Apparently, the headache can be prolongued by poor sleep quality which is just great 😆

Today is my first day without coffee and I'm surprised by how it's going. I used to drink strong coffees during the day or I would sometimes have coffee late in the afternoon. And of course, my sleep quality wasn't great, but I did sleep. Today, or I should say tonight, despite being extremely tired I am not falling asleep and I feel completely awake. There's no sign I'll be falling asleep anytime soon. Can someone help me make sense of this? I remove coffee, and now I don't sleep anymore?

This is my first day without coffee. I'm quitting coffee for good. The fatigue is crazy, I feel a mild headache coming on. I'm in the middle of walking in a park and I feel and look like a zombie.

Moving forward, I need to decide how to deal with chocolate. In your experience, is chocolate also problematic? (I can't wait to be done with all of this shit)

Maybe this makes no sense, but can caffeine influence hormones and raise stress and fatigue in a way that increases appetite?

Por alguma razão, as quartas-feiras, os transportes públicos estão cheios durante todo o dia, o que não acontece nos outros dias úteis. Há alguma explicação para isso?

I feel like I've been run over by a truck. I had enough calories, from different wholefood sources. I'm crazy tired.

I'm looking for ideas on videos, podcasts, articles etc ... on sugar, addiction, going sugar-free, fasting, diet-change ... basically anything in that direction, to both distract and motivate myself. Do you have any suggestions? Something that you liked or that has impacted you?

I'm experiencing unimaginable boredom. Not just not knowing what to do, but also the dumb ways I use to kill time with now feel meaningless and like a waste of time. No better ideas on what to do with my time appeared. There is no hunger, at all, but I'd like to eat to escape this void.

18 hours into my seven-day fast and I'm feeling so low on energy. Not in a physical sense, I'm not hungry, I'm not tired, but I feel like everything is flat, boring, not worth it. Anyone else have this experience?

Last two fasts failed. Pray for me 🙏 This is impossible.

I'm 25 hours into a 7-day fast and it's kind of tough right now. I can take the physical hunger, but I want to eat.

I'm curious, anyone who's done this kind of fast or longer, at what point did it get challenging for you? And was there a point after which it got easy?