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What is the unhealthiest habit you have?

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Fucking up my sleep schedule.
Also kinda abusing sleep medication when I get really depressed, I just take a bunch of sleeping pills so I can essentially skip time. Like a free trial of death.
- This minus the pills. I have a smart watch that clearly shows that I don't recover well if I go to bed late, but I always go to bed an hour later than I should ideally go, and always end up sleep deprived. I desperately need to cut this shit out.
- Love the death analogy. Don't we all have periods of just wanting to sleep to escape reality, but we fear non existence through death
  
  I don't fear non-existing. I fear the process of dying and the unknown that follows.

Comfort Eating.
I don't drink. I don't smoke. I tried weed and found it uninteresting and never did anything harder. I exercise regularly.
But I'll still never be the platonic ideal of a "healthy person", because whenever I'm sad, I need processed sugar to feel like a person again. And brother, does life give me reasons to be sad.
- For me it's impulse eating. I badly need impulse control in many areas of my life.
- Samesies. I remember back in college powering through a writing assignment with a 2L bottle of Coke and a 1lb. bag of M&Ms. Totally not healthy, but I learned later that it has to do with the relationship between insulin and neurotransmitters, like dopamine.
  I think I need to read up on that link more.

Lots of sitting. Both on my job and in my free time.
- Wow this thread makes me comment multiple times, and I feel shittier and shittier the more comments I relate with.
  
  Ikr
- Life is sitting. Sit up in bed, sit in car, sit in office, repeat until bedtime. And if you think about it - laying down is really just the advanced/ultimate form of sitting.

I go without changing bedsheets for a bit longer than i should
- Yea, I was pretty bad at that. Like I think it was almost 9 months between changes and I was living in Australia
  
  That's once a year💀. Buddy, even my lazy ass couldn't take it that far. I'm talking usually 2-3 months. I would only change it if i was having... company... Iykwim
  
  Bro....
- Hey, me too!
  
  Add me to the unwashed bedsheets club lmao
  It's just so much of an ordeal imo
- is it that you couldn't remember to? or you knew but didn't bother anyway?
  
  Nah I'm just lazy. I'm sitting on two months for my current one

I think people will change their mind when presented with facts
- That and having to constantly check myself for just being human and not being the beacon of perfection I was supposed to be.

My desk job

Chronic Stress
- Whats the biggest source?
  
  Life

Browsing the Internet on my phone instead of sleeping. It is indeed what I am currently doing.

I eat too much.
It would be too little sleep, but that is society's fault for putting early risers on a pedestal and not being accommodating of night owls.

Doom scrolling

6 pack of beer almost every night for the past 3 months. Doctor refuses to help me unless I go to rehab, but it's not feasible to spend that much time away from home.
- Husband was drinking 3-4 a night and I was freaking out about it, he got it down to 1-2 by not buying it in packs except on weekend. Like he will stop at the corner store and get one beer for after work.
  If you buy only one on your way home, instead of a six pack, do you think you would go out and get more, or might it work for you as it did for him?
  
  I managed to quit for a week by buying one at a time plus a six pack of non alcoholic beer. Trying it out again today.
  
  3-4 a night?! That's nothing at all.
- Consider the medication, naltrexone.
  
  Doc won't put me on it until I'm weeks sober

Vaping, doomscrolling, not eating healthy, binge drinking sometimes. The usual

I clench my jaw day and night, like constantly. Not intentionally, and I wear a mouthguard to protect my teeth at night, but I'm not really in control of the clenching and it causes downstream effects. Some mornings I can't open my jaw all the way. I had the feeling of water trapped in my ear (I thought it was from using the pool at the gym), but the ENT told me it was from TMJ. At least a couple times a week I end up with a headache that starts in my jaw and teeth, radiates up my sinuses, and on really bad days, results in light sensitivity and blurred vision.
- Caffeine increased my muscle tension. Muscle relaxants counteracted it. Now off both, taking lots of magnesium.
  
  Sorry if this is too personal, but I've heard magnesium can cause diarrhea. Does that happen to you? Also, what kind of magnesium do you take, and is your bruxism related to anxiety?

Eating at 01:00.

This is the 80th comment and no one has said "drugs" (unless you count alcohol). Maybe drug addicts have better things to do with their time than browse lemmy!
- maybe drug addicts just have More ubhealthy habits
- I think we should count alcohol, tobacco and vapes as drugs. They're controlled substances, after all.

Vaping or drinking.

Comfort eating. Before I got adhd meds I had zero impulse control, so I'd eat nothing or eat everything. I would be 75% through a giant bag of snacks, and I'd be actively not enjoying them and wanting to stop, but I just couldn't. I'd stop and put them away and ten seconds later I'd be back eating, even though I was feeling sick and gross.
On meds, that's stopped and I've realised that my craving for snacks is all about comfort, stimulus, and self regulation, and nothing to do with hunger. But even knowing that, I struggle to bother with other harder but healthier ways of stimulating and relaxing, when I could just eat crackers with thick slabs of salty butter, or alternate between dark chocolate and salty peanuts. It's not the worst, but I'm very conscious of that it's not really about the food and so it feels like a lot of empty calories just to chill me out a little.

Not sleeping like... Right now

I smoke.

My homecooked meals aren't healthy enough! My eating habits are too salty with too little vegetables.
Yeah, I'm somewhat of a health nut otherwise.

Addicted to casual sex, mostly anonymous. It's a huge health risk but I can't stop
- Stay safe, person.

Y'all know about Tostito's Queso in the jars? I go through a tall jar per week. I'm sure the strong, hazy IPAs are also not on the healthy food pyramid.
- Is it the salsa con queso or just a plain cheese? Because for some reason the salsa con queso jars are like crack to me. I can eat a whole jar in maybe 2 days, so I only purchase it very sparingly lmao.
  
  Salsa con queso... I don't think they do just cheese.
- I'm sure the strong, hazy IPAs are also not on the healthy food pyramid.
  But some lines we do not cross.
  See: Walmart Great Val-u Rainbow Chip Cookies.
  And whisky. And so, so so, so-so so much tea.
  
  Ha, yeah... I hunt for good beer. I'm from the U.S., I've been to about 500 breweries in 7 countries. The search will go on!

Sitting too much and sugar

That i don't go for enough walks being terminally online.

Politics
- Over the years having supported one party or the other I can tell you that it's all about people wanting power over others and then ensuring that they keep it. Their reality is totally different than the reality we, the 99%, live in that they can no longer even relate to us. There is no chance that they would actually understand the issues that affect regular people and then offer solutions that would actually solve those issues. Best advice is to simply try to enjoy life. Have you ever been a big fan of a sports team? They lose and you get depressed? Politics is no different. The players of the team that you admire couldn't care less about you and neither do politicians of either party. They only tell you what they think that you want to hear so you will vote for them and keep them in power
  
  the connection between politics and sports tells me youre a well-off white male.
  I understand that you have no threat of material loss when the wrong 'sports team' is in power, many people will actually face the consequences of the elites actions though.
  I understand if you want to ignore this fact, but it is a fact.

Scrolling on Reddit. Eating too much.
- reddit will rot your brain
  
  Any social media will.

Browsing lemmy
- I browse all and usually find groups that I had no idea even existed

I drink a lot of soda

Bad sleeping habits and eating high sodium food, besides that I don't drink, smoke, consume sugar, or do drugs, so I'm good.

I've gotten into the habit of eating and drinking things fast because of limited time on break and now my digestive system is in terrible shape

stay at my desk for too long

Still smoking while drinking but now only drink 2 days a week and then completely dry the other 5 days

Sitting at my desk at work is probably the biggest health risk I face.
I eat well, exercise, drink moderately (not every day, never more than two, almost always one drink only), don't smoke, have sex every day, manage my blood pressure, really try to be good to my body and do things to reduce anxiety but the enforced idleness of desk job is for sure unhealthy.
- Sex every day? Damn. My libido can be wild but that's next level.
  
  It's fantastic, I never thought any guy could keep up without feeling like I was too demanding or something. My ex was a once a week guy and I thought frustration was an unavoidable state. But husband wants it every day, more than 10 years in now. Sometimes twice, LOL. It's one of the things you have to make time for. I prioritize sex and exercise because if you don't, life and work will expand to fill that time.

Was smoking but thankfully I quit that before kids. Currently it is sleep. Both kids are night owls and I just want an hour of computer time at night 😜.

Smoking, doomscrolling, and overeating

Sugar addiction

I'm in a fight club, but I'm not supposed to talk about it.
- sounds like good exercise

Ending conversations quickly

Vaping daily and an expensive meal + six pack every Friday night.

Craving sugary drinks. I tend to get a big craving late afternoon. I try to stay away from sodas mostly, but I still wind up drinking sweet tea or lemonade, and an energy drink a couple days a week.
- Unsweetened black iced tea mixed with lemonade has half the sugar, enough caffeine to help, and tastes really good.
  
  I will try that.