At the risk of un-funning the meme, this is hard as hell. Took some health issues to snap me out of it and start taking care of myself. I know some folks that aren't stopped by health issues. Food addiction really sucks and erodes your willingness to deny it. Consent is a small part of the picture, though important.

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They say quitting smoking is very hard, but quitting food abuse is harder.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 8 points 1 year ago

I quit smoking years ago. It was rough, but at least I never need to smoke another cigarette for the rest of my life. It's a lot easier to maintain "never" than to maintain "daily but not too much".

[–] SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Same boat. It took my health totally imploding to galvanize my resolve to look closely at what I might do and do it. I lost 115 lbs and have kept it off 22 years this summer. Managed to resolve all my metabolic health problems and vastly improve some unrelated ones. My quality of life improved in many ways. A tough row to hoe. Yet totally worthwhile for me anyway. And I do recognize there is a privilege in being able to devote the resources to one's health. I know it's far tougher for lots of folks. And certainly more so now than a couple decades ago.