• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    As a “European” I never forget that I can just walk around the corner to buy cake because I don’t live in a suburban hellhole where I need a car to get food

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    As somebody who used to weigh over 350 pounds, you need to be the thing that stops you. I promise, losing the weight is harder than just not buying that cake in the first place.

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      For me gaining weight is harder than losing it. I can eat all of that for myself and didn’t gain weight but still got the diabetes for myself

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        I pray I’m one day able to afford to just go buy a cake for no reason. I might finally be able to gain a pound.

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        I have found the only way I can not be obese (and I mean the lowest BMI I have had is 24) is the most extreme diets - keto and now carnivore since keto is too hard to stick to

        Though I don’t envy you. You have no clear signal that you’re eating unhealthily, but suffer the same ill health that us fatties do if you do eat unhealthily

        You need to pump iron and eat protein to gain healthy weight

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        I think this is true for everyone

        that includes you, the lurker reading this comment

        Edit: oof, guess i struck a nerve.

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      It’s a cruel joke that life is too short not to enjoy these things, but by enjoying them, you make your life shorter.

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    I have done that before. Its great before and during the cake consumption, but afterwards the regret sets in when your bloated stomach tries to digest the consequences of your actions

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      Nah nah. This is all accurate. However the difference is, you buy it, you eat it, you enjoy the hell out of it.

      Then after dinner, you tell your kids they can have the rest for dessert. And since there’s one piece left, you have the last piece like a hoss. Then it’s gone within a days work, and you can pretend it never happens while the kids think it was the best day ever and it’s a win win situation.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    I watched a girl storm into a supermarket and grab some things.

    I later saw her in the parking lot sitting in her pickup truck’s bed and going down on a whole rotisserie chicken and a cake.

    I think about her all the time.

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    As a diabetic I grapple with this often. Turns out can and should are very different things :( curse you pancreas. You too mom. Kids don’t do drugs with a baby in the womb. Your kids will suffer.

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      “kids: don’t do drugs with a baby in the womb” is really good advice but kids should not be doing drugs either inside or outside the womb.

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        I mean, before a certain age there’s no kids that do drugs with a baby in the womb. Whose womb? I assume they meant the kid’s womb. But if they’re able to do drugs with a baby in someone else’s womb, who am I to judge such a feat?

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        Depends on the drug. Kids can have medical issues just like adults can.

        Kids should not be pregnant, however.

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    And eat a whole supermarket rotisserie chicken on your car just after you bought it. Some call it depression, I call it freedom.

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      I mean, unless it’s decorated, cakes are fairly cheap (especially if you compare it to other foods by calories per dollar)

      I’d say the biggest thing stopping most people from doing this regularly is a desire to not get type 2 diabetes lol

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        I’d argue the biggest thing stopping most people from doing this is laziness. Which is great.

        Even getting to the store to buy a cake is the only way we do it, making one is too much work (for casual bored cake consumption).

        Probably purely the fact that when we go to the store we don’t have store bought cake on the mind, i we don’t buy it.

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          You’re definitely thinking of T1, or health class and the Internet lied to me all my life. Come to think of it…

          But for sure you can get T2 from making unhealthy choices with sugar consumption.

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            Unhealthy food choices in general can help cause obesity which increases one’s risk, as does age; still largely hereditary. How do I know? My maternal grandmother was type 1 diabetic, my mother was T2, myself and all three of my siblings are T2. It’s part of the counseling after your diagnosis. It’s probably better to listen to health care professionals instead of folks on the internet.

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    Wait until they figure out they can buy the cake mixes, and it’s possible to make your own cakes, with as much extra stuff as you want. I once made a cake with embedded cookies, and a peanut butter cream cheese frosting. I regret nothing.

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    You’re also free to get fat and die of a heart attack. It’s like nobody cares.

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      As much as buying and eating a whole chocolate cake is 100% a bad idea for your health, doing it once is unlikely to have any noticable impact beyond making sure you have horrible shits for a day or so.

      Doing it (or similar) habitually will obviously drastically increase your chances of heart attacks and other issues though of course.

      But if you want to reward your inner 8 year old every once in a while I say do it, too many people make themselves permanently unhappy with dieting. The (much easier said than done) trick is very well known, and it’s simple moderation.

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        Tbh the less sugar I eat, the less I crave it. Even certain fruits can be almost unbearably sweet sometimes

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        The dose makes the poison. Usually, this is interpreted as referring to an instantaneous dose, but it also applies to culmulatuve doses, which unhealthy eating is one of the most common examples of.

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    I wish I could… I can’t drive, and I have celiac disease so bad that it has destroyed my gut so much, that even gluten free cakes make me sick.

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    Why would you need to buy a cake? Everything is a cake nowadays. Just stick your knife into something.

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        Common misconception. People will eat sugary fat free products and think it is a healthy product, but think that bacon will kill them, while in all likelihood it is the other way around.

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          Carbs are bad for you in high quantities the same as fats.

          Sugar isn’t actually much worse than any other carb either.

          But carb elimination has been linked to early death as well.

          It’s all about the amount you eat.

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                The findings show observational associations rather than cause-and-effect and what people ate was based on self-reported data, which might not be accurate.

                And the authors acknowledge that since diets were measured only at the start of the trial and six years later, dietary patterns could have changed over the subsequent 19 years.

                So yeah… quite useless, and even if it wasn’t useless, the key takeaway was that the choice to eat animal vs plants to replace the loss of carb intake was the bad/good effect, not lowering carb intake.

                One point for effort though ;-)

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    Look at this adult with a car. I bet you even claim to have impulse control too!