Dopamine
Coffee
More espresso, less depresso.
Sweets. I have a huge sweet tooth.
I’m right here with you in this boat. I’m just really glad I hate baking or else I’m sure I’d weigh far far too much.
Lmao I love baking, so you see my issue here. Nothing like making a beautiful pan of cinnamon rolls and eating half.
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Reddit and Lemmy, I can’t stop opening Reddit and Lemmy every few minutes, I’m completely sick
I dunno if might help - but I had a problem with reddit (before switching to Lemmy). I ended up putting an app timer on it for an hour every weekday and 2 on weekends. Honestly, it helped a lot for me.
Yeah, I used the LeechBlock browser addon for that. Worked ok, though I was often tempted to override it. 😅
Do what I did and get perma-banned from Reddit. Then you’ll just be addicted to Lemmy. 😤
Then you’ll just be lurking all the time lol
(I don’t have an account but still lurk on reddit with adblockers)
I use an app called Lock Me Out to ensure that I don’t get into bad habits of scrolling too long.
I recommend getting into some other hobbies that require your attention.
God, me too.
I use a self hosted front end for reddit so at least im not logging in there but sweet jesus.
Internet…
But also constantly thinking about past memories… nostalgia?
Have you considered writing a memoir
Yes…
Unfortunately I’ve been just been binge watching a bunch of random stuff and been procrastinating on it…
Don’t worry… I’ll get that done some day…
5 decades later…
“Eh, I’ll work on it tomorrow…”
(My most recent binge-watch is Frieren… lots of flashbacks… just like I go through a lot of “flashbacks” everyday lol… it’s so poetic, so rhymey)
Reading academic books that freak people out when they come over to my place and get me labeled as a pretentious douche.
got any recommendations?
Yeah. The Identity Trap.
Great book on how/why our universities and politics are so fucked up the past 10 years.
Thinking.
I’m not good at it, but I do it often.
Going out to eat. I try to limit myself to 3 times a week.
What’s your favorite to go to?
On Saturdays for lunch we let the kids pick. Me and my wife work from home, on Tuesdays she gets to pick where we go for our lunch date and Thursdays I get to pick.
The wife likes to pick sushi, panera, taco bell, and a good local burger joint.
I like to pick Qdoba, Firehouse, Burger King, local Indian place, chick-fil-a, and random new places around town.
I knew people who eat out 3 times a day.
They always complained about how broke they were and how expensive life is…
True. One thing that helps is I hate delivery apps. I only use them when work gives out gift cards. The food is always cold and garbage when I finally get it. And not using those helps save money a lot too.
What about when you hang out outside on a weekend, then that is easily two meals outside.
Do you not hang out outside that long or do you go home for lunch and go back out?
Nah, we tend to either stay home or when we go out to do things on the weekends they’re quick errands and we’re right back home.
Porn, Video Games and Youtube Shorts. The Holy Trifecta of Loneliness .
Damn dude… You really have to quit those YouTube shorts.
But what else should I jerk off to then?
YouTube Nudes
Video games
Blue cheese. Specifically double cream blue cheese spread on triscuits.
I used to think blue cheese tasted like play-doh…
Hobbies, I can’t get enough of them, gotta collect 'em all. Every couple months it’s a new fixation.
Fucking neurotypicals…
My computer, in full working order, with Internet access.
If any of that goes wrong, I’m in a very bad place.
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Soda for me.
I love it.
I hate it.I just wish so much that there were half sugar sodas out there. All the synthetic sugars of the diet or 0 calorie ones taste like garbage.
I’ve been cutting the ones I drink by pouring a can of eltzer water in with the regular can of soda, but I think even that tastes a little strange compared to just watering things down.
Make your own. It’s pretty easy. It’s just water and flavorings and sugar and you boil it down slowly.
Syrup in the fridge made this way will store for weeks and you can customize how strong/weak you want your soda to taste.
Same… I drink an embarrassing amount of diet soda. I’m like a chain-drinker, to be honest, and I’m almost never without one. When one runs out I get another.
I like to add a splash of regular when I use a fountain soda machine, which is the best way to drink soda anyway, imo.
Agreed with the second part 100%. On the rare occasion I get fast food or something, getting the good stuff straight from the great soda teat is probably the best part.
Liquid Death has some great low-sugar sodas. I’ve been a strong fan of their Doctor Death. Their tea is also super low in sugar.
Oh really?? I didn’t know they did anything besides overpriced water at concerts, lol. I’ll check it out, hell yeah.
Only tried Liquid Death once, and it was Arnold Palmer I believe. Just tasted like watered down iced tea…
I think the flavor was called “dead billionaire” though which gave me a chuckle.
I mean, that’s their model, yeah. That’s exactly what it is.
Yeah I mean I knew that… It was still weird to open a can of something and have it taste so watered down.
There are some lower sugar sodas, or hybrid sodas that use fruit juice along with Stevia or monkfruit in order to cut the weird taste. Olipop is my favorite, and Spindrift has some good flavors.
Music, I NEED it on nearly all the time or I’ll drive myself insane repeating parts of songs in my head. Only turn it off to sleep
How do you find enough stuff to listen to ?
I have a lot of artists I like so there’s usually new music even without checking out new playlists, although that works great too. Honestly the biggest part is probably just that if I really love a song I don’t mind hearing it super often, so I’m usually perfectly happy just hitting shuffle on my library and vibing with whatever’s on
I have a lot of artists I like
Damn that must be great. I have like 1-2 songs I like from ~10 artists
Oh wow, have you tried listening to other artists and not found anything you like?
Yes, I often try to put on playlists, listen to the albums the songs I enjoy come from, let the algorithm choose for me, but nothing seems to please my ears, sadly
Ironically just stumbled on this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64775117
Food
It might be an eating disorder
I avoid talking to my therapist about it because I don’t want to confront the truth.
As I read this, I’m looking down at my spoon and the jar of peanut butter I’m holding …….
I just ate a whole chocolate bar after eating a big bowl of pasta…
