Quitting a habit

[Molalla1]

I like it pretty much all . . . :drink:

 

[Wood_Butcher_Dav]

Last Sept had a routine blood test done as it had been a few years, anyway A1C was over 10, fasting Glucose 180. After Dr. visit who said I should be getting insulin shots and go on diet and excise program. The next day went cold turkey on what i call a no GPS diet - No Grains, Potatoes, and Sugar. Started walking around 3 miles a day(Target 10,000 steps). First few weeks were hard. 6 months later the blood work all normal A1C 5.9, glucose 95 and now 50 lbs lighter. Weird feeling after 20 some years having to buy smaller paints sizes.

Dave

 

[CobyRupert]

Last Sept had a routine blood test done as it had been a few years, anyway A1C was over 10, fasting Glucose 180. After Dr. visit who said I should be getting insulin shots and go on diet and excise program. The next day went cold turkey on what i call a no GPS diet - No Grains, Potatoes, and Sugar. Started walking around 3 miles a day(Target 10,000 steps). First few weeks were hard. 6 months later the blood work all normal A1C 5.9, glucose 95 and now 50 lbs lighter. Weird feeling after 20 some years having to buy smaller paints sizes.

Dave

:thumbsup: Good for you Dave!

Carbs are sugar, or rather sugar is a carb.
I think half the battle is not calling things what they are: Example: Instead of saying: "Would you like some ketchup for your hamburger?", Say "Would you like some (meat) sugar on your hamburger?"
"Want some sugar sauce on your spaghetti?", etc..

...don't mess with the sugar lobby though. Powerful enough they use to get the use Gov't to overthrow central American governments for them at the turn of the last century.
Ever notice how every ingredient is listed on a product, along with the how much of the product supplies of your "Recommended Daily Dosage %" for calories, iron, sodium, etc.... EXCEPT notice that there is no "Recommended Daily Dosage" listed for sugar. Hmmmm....why is that?

My understanding is that while too much sugar is bad, at least when you eat natural sugars in fruits, you're at least getting fiber with it that regulates the shock (and insulin production) that your body experiences.

 

[Doofy]

Last Sept had a routine blood test done as it had been a few years, anyway A1C was over 10, fasting Glucose 180. After Dr. visit who said I should be getting insulin shots and go on diet and excise program. The next day went cold turkey on what i call a no GPS diet - No Grains, Potatoes, and Sugar. Started walking around 3 miles a day(Target 10,000 steps). First few weeks were hard. 6 months later the blood work all normal A1C 5.9, glucose 95 and now 50 lbs lighter. Weird feeling after 20 some years having to buy smaller paints sizes.

Dave

Good Job! I've dropped 30# and now am stuck. Need to get off TBN and the couch and walk more.

 

[the old grind]

I smoked cigs, cigars, and pipe for 50 yrs, always more a nervous habit, but if I didn't crave the nicotine I loved tobacco as a way to embrace it. Red man or Beech nut if I was relaxing like during fishing or mowing's hours of virtual inertia. I was so sure I could never quit, but when a nice Doc asked me to, I knew that keeping a promise could get me to do for someone else what I'd never do for myself. So I stopped using all forms of tobacco around 2 1/2 yrs ago, Dec 22nd, 2016 was my last day.

I may never have to go through the difficult process of 'quitting' after all. Love how one humbles the boastful, by adding, "I smoked for 50 years and quit over two days a few years ago. What was that big special unique thing you did again?" I do stuff because I can, esp if/when the younger and stronger can't. (an Oakie apocalypse is incipient, mates).

 

[tradosaurus]

Growing up in the 70's in south Texas I had friends who dipped skoal and copenhagen. We were about 10-12 yo. All it took was me trying Skoal and about puking for me never to touch chewing tobacco. Tried smoking cigarette at that age and same thing. My one "vice" is coffee. I can drink a pot a day if I'm not careful. I'm tried to move toward cold coffee.

 

[MoKelly]

Growing up in the 70's in south Texas I had friends who dipped skoal and copenhagen. We were about 10-12 yo. All it took was me trying Skoal and about puking for me never to touch chewing tobacco. Tried smoking cigarette at that age and same thing. My one "vice" is coffee. I can drink a pot a day if I'm not careful. I'm tried to move toward cold coffee.

Coffee! A Vice!!!

I may be in trouble.️️️️

MoKelly

 

[fried1765]

Coffee! A Vice!!!

I may be in trouble.️️️️

MoKelly

I do not believe that (coffee) caffeine is simply a "vice".
It is actually a drug!

 

[MoKelly]

I do not believe that (coffee) caffeine is simply a "vice.
It is actually a drug!

Yikes! Now I am a drug addict with a Vice.

Better get another cup of coffee!

MoKelly

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Doctor told me..."No more caffeine...only decaf coffee, Pepsi free and...get this...NO MORE CHOCOLATE!"

 

[Doofy]

Doctor told me..."No more caffeine...only decaf coffee, Pepsi free and...get this...NO MORE CHOCOLATE!"

Time to trade that Dr in!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Time to trade that Dr in!

Ah, but it's soooo delightful to sneak a hand full of peanut M&Ms!

 

[TractorGuy]

For me it was just a matter of making my mind up to quit. BUT that required a near life altering experience.

I use to drink a lot of beer when I was younger. Never really got violent and my wife claimed she couldn't tell any difference in my demeanor when I was drinking. One weekend I added a party on top of my regular drinking. There was a guy trying to pick fights with everybody there and when he got around to my BIL I intervened. He pulled a knife on me but didn't strike. I went to my car and he followed until I pulled a weapon out of the glove compartment then he retreated. At that point I collected my thoughts and went on home. I was self employed at the time and the next day I was too hung over to open my shop. Between the near death experience and the guilt of not going to work I made my mind up to quit. Did it cold turkey and never drank or wanted another drink from that day on.

I also smoked unfiltered camel cigarettes for 40 years. Came home from work one day and got a burning pain in my chest and broke out into a cold sweat. I called my wife and asked her to call 911 since I didn't feel like talking. By the time they arrived I felt better but they insisted on taking me to the hospital. The cardiologist talked me into letting him do exploratory surgery. He found 3 clogged veins and put stents in. I never smoked or wanted another cigarette.

The moral is, don't wait to have a near death experience. I got lucky in both cases but either event could have been the end of my life. I feel so much better now than I did in my 40s and 50s. I wish I would have never seen any alcohol or cigarettes.

 

[Industrial Toys]

If you are not a groupie, like doing things on your own, acceping all responsibility and excercising YOUR OWN, POWER, don't care for the religious spin in the background, and are "thinking" oriented, read the book "Rational Recovery".

Not only did I find the methodology effective for me, but certain very helpful concepts (people who can't leave labels alone, would nowadays call them "tools") stick with you for life.

 

[MossRoad]

I ate 38 pounds of dark chocolate covered tart cherries in the past 6 months. Time to buy some more.

 

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I ate 38 pounds of dark chocolate covered tart cherries in the past 6 months. Time to buy some more.

This sounds like something I'd love - are they handmade or where do you buy them?

 

[MossRoad]

This sounds like something I'd love - are they handmade or where do you buy them?

South Bend Chocolate factory occasionally has factory rejects in a large cardboard box. Their normal prices are around $19 a pound. The factory rejects are less than $3.00 a pound. They look funny, but taste great! I've eaten 3 of those boxes in the past 4 years, so over a hundred pounds. The boxes are usually 35-40 pounds. I've picked them up for as cheap as $20 and as much as $60 a box, but still, that's a great price. I split them up into quart zip lock bags and freeze them. Pull a bag out every week or two and om nom nom!!

 

[MossRoad]

As far as giving up a habit, January 1 0f 2020 I gave up using my car horn in anger for a New Year's resolution. It lasted about 6 days. So I started over. Lasted a couple weeks. Started over, lasted a little longer. Took many months but I have maintained control and go way longer between outbursts.

I still cuss at folks, but don't punctuate it with a horn blast.

I guess as any habit you want to break, you have to want to break it and work at it if tempted, and resolve yourself to keep trying for the right reasons.

My right reason is I don't want to get shot at a roundabout.

 

[Industrial Toys]

We need to crowd fund you a "FREEWAY BLASTER" Horn. Having a little horn only makes one more angry!

As for manifesting our reality. People do it incorrectly all the time and it works just like it should. "WANTING" something. More money, loosing weight, quitting simething always gives them just that. A Life of "WANTING" that and never getting it.

 

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I gave up using my car horn in anger [...] My right reason is I don't want to get shot at a roundabout.

I realized at one point that horns are pretty much useless - if I had time to use one, I pretty much didn't need to use it and using it could just get me in trouble. Take evasive action, and think about what a miserable person the other driver is that they behave how they do and feel smugly superior. Makes me feel better...

[unless someone's parked at a stop sign/light, or very gradually drifting in their lane... in the first case, I have time, and they need to wake up; in the second case, they really need to wake up, and I can't decide if I'm better in front of them where they may end up rear ending me or behind them where I'm behind their crash later]