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0 pointssnvzz1y ago0 comments

>This is like:

Exercising willpower is an important life skill. Being able to will be extremely helpful in way too many occasions to count.

>Fasting wont take away the cravings

It will, actually. Sugar cravings are very different relative to regular hunger, and are really gone for good within 48h.

>after a few days you feel very hungry and all you can think about is food,

The "all you can think" is just not true. It's just regular hunger.

You can then eat. Just not sugar, but actual nutritious food.

I'd suggest a cadence of one meal a day, or two but not far apart from each other (e.g. 18:6 intermittent fasting).

It is actually and, quite surprisingly for many, easy to do this.

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hombre_fatal1y ago

Willpower, propensity for addiction, susceptibility to sugar, etc. aren't equally distributed.

The people you're preaching to have tried all those things. Your advice cashes out into "land better in the distribution like me and then confuse it for a character trait like I do".

snvzzOP1y ago

>have tried

Apparently not hard enough.

>"land better in the distribution like me..."

This line of thinking you are describing there is classic loser mentality. The successes of others are always because of "luck".

It couldn't possibly be that they put in the hard work when you weren't looking. Of course not.

Entertaining such ideas would lead to looking inwards, and there's only darkness to be found inwards.

This is a problem that outsiders cannot fix. They have to realize the problem themselves, and only then will they be able to move forward.

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