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Post by Meursault on Sept 12, 2004 20:32:34 GMT -5
Ok, here's a board where people can break there habits, mine will be easy. I won't be on the damn computer all the time. Also i'm probably goin to keep moderation of boo's and alcohol.
Go me.
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Post by melon1 on Sept 12, 2004 20:38:08 GMT -5
Melon checks in to make things too damn serious ;D
The only way to break a habit is to let God love you.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Sept 13, 2004 2:53:34 GMT -5
Or, if that doesn't work, try nicotine patches.
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Post by riley on Sept 13, 2004 6:06:54 GMT -5
I let God love me, but I'm still addicted to attention and personal validation.
Now if he would laugh at my jokes more aften then we might have a better relationship.
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Post by Proud on Sept 13, 2004 6:43:11 GMT -5
Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safer in my room
Unless I try to start again
I don't want to be the one
Who battles always choose
Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight
Cultured my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I have no options left again
I dont want to be the one
Who battles always choose
Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight
I'll paint it on the walls
Cause I'm the one that falls
I'll never fight again
And this is how it ends
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
to show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight
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Post by luke on Sept 13, 2004 9:18:45 GMT -5
The first time I heard that song on the radio, I seriously thought that it was a Mountain Dew commercial. Then it didn't end, and we were like "what the fuck is this? wait, oh no, is this Linkin Park?"
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Post by PC on Sept 13, 2004 9:52:01 GMT -5
Who does that song? I don't listen to the radio anymore, so I have no idea.
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Post by luke on Sept 13, 2004 15:01:46 GMT -5
Linkin Park
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 20, 2004 12:43:47 GMT -5
Cool board. I'm on Day 186 of having quit ingesting REFINED SUGAR into my body. William Duffy convinced me that it was a BAD IDEA to keep eating that shit -- check out his famous book Sugar Blues for some startling insight into this nefarious substance created in a laboratory that leaches out all of it's naturally-ocurring vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. Duffy and many other doctors, including our most-admired Surgeon General of the United States C. EVERETT KOOP, have long been advising against the ingestion of refined sugar. I no longer drink: COKE, DR. PEPPER, ROOT BEER, ANY SODAS WHATSOEVER, nor do I imbibe anything with HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP in it, or any other variant of refined-sugar. I now drink largely nothing but WATER, WATER, and more WATER. I still drink COFFEE in the mornings, only sweeten it with natural HONEY. ANY product on the market which reveals the presence of "SUGAR" or "fructose" or "corn syrup" ETC., I AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE. Hence I now focus on NATURAL foods, and foods which do not contain HYDROGENATED OILS; i.e, foods with a SHELF LIFE for wide distribution, because that stuff is BAD 4 U!  In any case . . . I strongly urge ALL OF YOU to "kick the sugar habit", because it really is bad for you. Find William Duffy's book at your local library . . . or put it in a search engine and read EXCERPTS from it online . . .or go out and PURCHASE YOUR OWN COPY; but whatever you do -- make an effort to discover for yourself just why you don't want to be ingesting this stuff. It really is bad for you . . . and the majority of our population really is hooked on it . . . and the overall picture really is DISTURBING. In any case . . . I am really glad I gave that up 6 months ago. Water is all your body really needs to drink . . . why contaminate it with all the DRECK that major corporations and the industry funnel down our throats-? In any case . . . you might want to QUIT REFINED SUGAR too. You'll be glad you did, later in life. |
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Post by Mary on Sept 20, 2004 16:11:28 GMT -5
I'm with you, thorny - I quit drinking soda entirely on May 1st (I remember the date only because it was at a conference in Minneapolis). Since then I've mostly just consumed lots of H2O... some apple juice... and the occasional beer or amaretto sour (i'm still an amaretto whore, what can I say!)
Funny thing is this was just about the easiest thing in the world to do. I never really drank soda for the caffeine or anything like that, only because it tasted so damn good. So I never got any of the nasty caffeine withdrawal symptoms that people trying to quit coffee get (I never ever drink coffee, I've never had a cup of it in my entire life). I felt exactly the same as I always did. Now I don't miss it at all, plus it means every time I go out to lunch or dinner I save about $1.50 cause I used to always order a soda at such meals. So I'm with thorny - quit soda! It's fuckin terrible for you, and you won't even miss it.
NP: Leonard Cohen - The Essential (song: The Stranger Song)
Cheers,
M
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 20, 2004 17:01:07 GMT -5
That's awesome, Mary. That means you're on day 143, because my date of having quit was 43 days before yours, on March 18th to be precise -- and I remember because it was (coincidentally enough) the very day I saw A Perfect Circle, earlier this year.
Quite appropriate when you stop and consider their latest album's theme - "13th Step" - addictions.
And yes, you do save up extra $$ that would otherwise go towards soda pop, candy, cookies, and all that other fluff that corporations without a conscience continue to line their pockets with. If enough people in this country were to realize that all they needed was good clean WATER to drink, we might undergo a mass awakening to collectively face reality: that we're being taken advantage of by our ignorance and led down an unfortunate pathway wherein these various corporations get richer and more powerful - not to mention influential - and we merely get sicker, which in turn provides various hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry, in turn, to churn out more drugs with which to treat us . . . . Aw, you get the idea . . . I should stop now before I start sounding like some wack conspiracy theorist (which I'm not).
That vicious cycle I was beginning to describe is no conspiracy theory; rather, it is but a simple economic truth. Millions of americans have been gradually turned into *gasp!* Sugar Zombies and if you think that sounds funny . . . I got news for ya: it ain't funny atall. It's the grim & scary truth . . . but what can we do about it?
*shrugs* Just start spreading the word . . . but you have to find out for yourself . . . and all I can do to start you out is urge that you read William Duffy's book Sugar Blues, which is only the tip of the iceberg of information available out there at our disposal.
"JUST SAY NO TO REFINED SUGAR"
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Post by luke on Sept 22, 2004 12:56:48 GMT -5
I am against completely quitting anything that's not an addiction. I've been drinking almost nothing but water since I was thirteen years old, but that doesn't mean I'm not above the occasional Pepsi. If our society would drink soda as it was meant to be drank- as a sweet treat, even a dessert- then there'd be no hazard with the stuff.
But, well, that's the case with anything. I'm not going to give up my occasional indulgence in chocolate or cheesecake. It does my body virtually no harm, and there's no real logic in my giving the stuff up altogether. I'm in great shape, I'm extremely healthy, and I know how to eat right. An occasional indulgence is not going to do me any harm, and even if it does cause just a little, it was probably worth it.
I doubt that anti-sugar book would do me much good. I've read Animal Liberation, Fast Food nation, and all sorts of similar stuff, and I have no problem whatsoever with eating meat every day, and chowing down on the monthly dose of McDonald's or KFC.
Hope I don't sound too harsh, thorny! I'm not trying to attack you for your personal choice or anything of that nature. Just stating my belief that I think total abstinence in the face of anything but prior addiction is usually a pointless idea.
It's all a matter of opinion and lifestyle, though.
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Post by Mary on Sept 22, 2004 14:32:20 GMT -5
Oh I agree wtih you ekul, if you just drink a rare can of soda that's fine. Thing with me is, as soon as I have a soda, I want it all the time, with every meal. So giving up entirely seemed like the best option. I don't think I'd be very good at drinking the "occasional" soda.
I'm definitely not giving up sugar entirely or anything. Just soda. There's no way I can part with my chocolate hazelnut candies entirely!!!
Cheers,
M
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Post by Ampage on Sept 22, 2004 14:45:38 GMT -5
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Post by luke on Sept 23, 2004 6:57:44 GMT -5
See, amp, sites like that piss me off. Why? Because they don't really point out (at least not right away...I didn't go in depth) that KFC is doing just as much evil to chickens as the chicken you buy at the grocery store. I understand that they want a specific target, and I guess it's easiest to start with the big guy, but some people see stuff like that and think that only KFC is doing that. I can't stand when people decide to only not eat fast food, and actually think that the meat they're buying at the grocery store is any better. KFC isn't doing anything that the suppliers for grocery stores aren't. Only free range and hunted meat are killed without the factory torture, in ALL cases.
(Not accusing you of this or anything...just being general)
As for the pictures and stuff there, it's nothing I haven't seen. I gave a pro-vegetarian speech in some class where I showed pictures of chicks getting ground up to be fed to their parents, chickens being debeaked, their claws growing around their tiny cages. Also had pics of veal calves, cows at slaughter houses who were skinned alive and left in the corner to scream and die, pigs and turkeys so fattened up that they can't walk anymore. Gave that speech in class and had about three people walk up to me and tell me that they'd never eat meat again. As for me, I still eat the stuff all the time. It just doesn't bother me, although I know it's wrong.
Wow, that was serious. On a lighter, but just as depressing not, I woke up at six this morning, forced myself out of bed, drank my juice, ate my vitamin and bagel slice, stretched, warmed-up, got dressed to go running, opened the door and...pouring rain. This SUCKS.
And oh yeah, my step dad has the Colonel's autograph, which he got in a KFC in Kentucky back in the 70s.
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