A Rant - What to live for now?

[cumulus.james]

Ok so having given up Smoking, alcohol and any foodstuffs I used to enjoy and spending my spare time working out I am now discovering the one thing I have, the one little pleasure - Diet Coke is extremely bad for me too.

So what’s so bad about Coke?

Apparently the Phosphoric Acid lowers bone density, The Artificial Carbons bid to the nutrients in your body and take them away in your wee (????) and the artificial sweeteners give you cancer and possibly stress out your liver, and something about affecting your intestines absorption of nutrients.

At this point I am so bored, miserable and stressed out about tis stuff I am thinking I should say F*** it and go have a drink and a smoke and a large kebab.

This is a lot of misery to endure to keep yourself healthy and essentially there is no reward whatsoever. You may get 5 years extra at the end of your life but that extra 5 years you will likely be infirm so why go though a life of being miserable for that?

 

[IgnoredOne]

Well, you don't have to cut out a 'bad food' entirely from your life; you just need to reduce the quantities of consumption. I always have at least one day a week where I let myself eat all of the things which I usually remove. And of course, its rewards are far more than just +5 years tacked on the end of your life; its also being healthier overall and having a better quality of life for the large prior quantity of years.

 

[Peter Lorre]

I agree with Ignored, it's a good idea to have one day in the week where you just eat/drink whatever you want. Much nicer than attempting to ban fastfood/alcohol/... completely out of your life, which usually won't work anyway.

 

[Haz]

eh, you probably do yourself more damage worrying about this stuff then actually indulging in it

just restrict yourself and you'll be fine, don't let jibberjabber about a bunch of carcinogens or whatever get you all worked up

 

[cumulus.james]

I agree with Ignored, it's a good idea to have one day in the week where you just eat/drink whatever you want. Much nicer than attempting to ban fastfood/alcohol/... completely out of your life, which usually won't work anyway.

I tried doing that. But I have oesophagitis so I actually cant drink anything fizzy, alcoholic, fattening or acidic! I cant even have a damn bolognese as tomatoes will increase the acid levels too.

So I'm a lonely guy who cant even have a beer, curry, chocolate or cola now!

I'm thinking cannabis is the way forward. You got to have something to get you through the day!

 

[Limlim]

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[sentiententity]

Yeah, you need to have things you enjoy. Otherwise what is life? Just existing and working?

 

[freedom]

ok.. no offense, but you have absolutely no conviction in what you're doing. that said, i suggest that you just drop your newfound healthy lifestyle and go back to living the way that you were.

i live this kind of lifestyle. i have been for the past five years, and ever since i decided on it, i've been in the best shape of my life. i don't drink, smoke, or eat any junk food or ANYTHING fattening or made of flour, and i've lived a disease free life ever since. i don't know where you get that you can manage to live an extra five years by living a healthy lifestyle, but it's not so much about how long you live as it is how well you live.

****, i'm never going to have to deal with diabetes, cancer, high/low cholesterol or blood pressure or any of that ****, not only because i have zero family history with any major diseases, but because i'm preventing any of it from ever happening to me.

if you find yourself miserable because you can't go on without your diet coke, then why are you torturing yourself? no one is forcing you to live this way except yourself.

...and the rewards are invaluable. great health and great physical and mental shape are your's if you want them.

 

[cumulus.james]

ok.. no offense, but you have absolutely no conviction in what you're doing. that said, i suggest that you just drop your newfound healthy lifestyle and go back to living the way that you were.

i live this kind of lifestyle. i have been for the past five years, and ever since i decided on it, i've been in the best shape of my life. i don't drink, smoke, or eat any junk food or ANYTHING fattening or made of flour, and i've lived a disease free life ever since. i don't know where you get that you can manage to live an extra five years by living a healthy lifestyle, but it's not so much about how long you live as it is how well you live.

****, i'm never going to have to deal with diabetes, cancer, high/low cholesterol or blood pressure or any of that ****, not only because i have zero family history with any major diseases, but because i'm preventing any of it from ever happening to me.

if you find yourself miserable because you can't go on without your diet coke, then why are you torturing yourself? no one is forcing you to live this way except yourself.

...and the rewards are invaluable. great health and great physical and mental shape are your's if you want them.

You may well still get cancer my dear chap. Increasing radiation, pollutants, petrochemicals, pesticide's cant be avoided. We have to ask weather the rise in cancer rats is due to smoking, drinking and obesity or is it all these damn chemicals we are being bombarded with in modern life.

Adopting a healthier life as you have and I am trying to do is the only way to minimize your risk, I just wonder if its worth it?

I'm assuming you are as unhappy as the rest of us, were you having such a great time you would not be on here. Statistically by living how you do your only going to add something like a decade at best, the question is do you want to die at 80 having had a bland and miserable existence or at 70 having had a damn good time?

 

[idereeTeaft]

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[freedom]

ok.. no offense, but you have absolutely no conviction in what you're doing. that said, i suggest that you just drop your newfound healthy lifestyle and go back to living the way that you were.

i live this kind of lifestyle. i have been for the past five years, and ever since i decided on it, i've been in the best shape of my life. i don't drink, smoke, or eat any junk food or ANYTHING fattening or made of flour, and i've lived a disease free life ever since. i don't know where you get that you can manage to live an extra five years by living a healthy lifestyle, but it's not so much about how long you live as it is how well you live.

****, i'm never going to have to deal with diabetes, cancer, high/low cholesterol or blood pressure or any of that ****, not only because i have zero family history with any major diseases, but because i'm preventing any of it from ever happening to me.

if you find yourself miserable because you can't go on without your diet coke, then why are you torturing yourself? no one is forcing you to live this way except yourself.

...and the rewards are invaluable. great health and great physical and mental shape are your's if you want them.

You may well still get cancer my dear chap. Increasing radiation, pollutants, petrochemicals, pesticide's cant be avoided. We have to ask weather the rise in cancer rats is due to smoking, drinking and obesity or is it all these damn chemicals we are being bombarded with in modern life.

Adopting a healthier life as you have and I am trying to do is the only way to minimize your risk, I just wonder if its worth it?

I'm assuming you are as unhappy as the rest of us, were you having such a great time you would not be on here. Statistically by living how you do your only going to add something like a decade at best, the question is do you want to die at 80 having had a bland and miserable existence or at 70 having had a damn good time?

yes, it is worth it. and i'm not an unhappy person. i just have my bad moments which are not due to the lifestyle that i lead, but due to having a pretty rough childhood and because of a woman that has broken my heart. i spend time on here, like many other sites, because i can afford it. some of us, like me, are just not attracted to the kind of lifestyle that you're describing. i dislike the taste of alcohol because i find it nauseating. i don't need cigarettes because i handle all my problems alone. and fattening food disgusts me, really. do you know what some of those foods actually do to your body and what they put in them? i'm no vegetarian or animal rights activist, but it's pretty nasty. also, you're right about pesticides, pollutants and other chemicals being hard to avoid, but that's what organic foods are for and why i only drink water from my brita filter and why i live out in the country and not in the big city 50 miles away. the air really is tastier where i live. sorry if i come off as an a-hole, but i saw the word "rant" and that's what i decided to do.

...and i live a great life. i have a lot going on for me. i'm on the road to riches and self-fulfilment, but mostly riches. sorry it took so long to reply, but i stay pretty busy with my work. thanks and have a great day!

 

[IgnoredOne]

Exactly, freedom. We can never completely eliminate risk from anything, but we can increase the probabilities and reduce worry. That reduction of worry is an immediate and total benefit to quality of life /now/ let alone anything in the future.