When I get fast food, I don’t eat the fries until I get home.
When I feel bad emotionally, I clean. I do the nastiest, most unpleasant jobs; since I’m gonna be miserable no matter what, I might as well get some use out of it.
That’s kinda genius.
That’s interesting. I wonder if I can trick myself into doing stuff like that as a form of punishment. Generally I find myself unable to move so I just stare into space. Sometimes I have a hard time even moving my arms and legs to drive home from work. Or to get out of the car once I’ve parked out front. How do you manage to start?
I don’t force myself to start right away. After years of “well I guess I might as well” I now more-or-less automatically start washing dishes, doing laundry, and tackling yardwork when my mood dips. I still need to make the conscious choice to tackle bigger jobs like mucking out the basement or turnjng the compost.
Do you feel that getting the worst jobs done also helps to boost your mood, because that awful thing you didn’t want to do is now done?
Not in that way, but:
A) my environment is usually nicer afterwards, which improves mood, and
2] if I was miserable due to fighting with my partner, seeing me do chores usually improves her mood, facilitating reconciliation
I am sorry you are fighting with your partner. Have a heart ❤️ that means nothing to you.
I think I might try this. It sounds useful in so many ways.
Stealing this
When i post on asklemmy i write my individual answer as a comment, so people can reply to it instead of the post, where should just be answers to the question.
I think your best habit is correcting people without correcting them. Good job!
I’ll keep that in mind
I’m extremely consistent with my weightlifting program (1.5 years aww yeah!)
Starting to lift with the best decision I ever made and the best habit I’ve ever formed. Nagging aches and pains are basically a thing of the past. I’m way more useful, and my lower body, which was once withered and useless after a decade of working in an office, have been replaced with tree trunks and a dump-truck ass
A couple of the accessory benefits of this that in order to support my lifting progress I now eat way better, quit drinking and prioritize proper sleep. Overall it’s just been a huge increase in quality of life
Same, except I lift with my teenage son and daughter. We got a power rack in the garage and now they drag me out to it with them. We’re all feeling better about ourselves!
Everytime I get a meal with vegetables I eat that first no matter what else is on the plate. I think of it working my way to the best part of the meal
I say the opposite: fries get cold too fast, they SHOULD be eaten before you get home.
Heated seats ftw.
Is the fry thing really your best habit?
Make and bring my lunch to work every day. It takes planning and discipline, but over a year, saves me about $12/day, or $3,130 a year.
Dragging myself out of my house to deal with this maddening existence called life, despite every fiber of my being telling me to stay home and avoid all you annoying flesh-bags that just do everything you can to irritate me.
That and I read daily.
Probably exercise. Lifelong habit of exercise. Different sorts at different times but never nothing, always something on purpose to strengthen & keep flexible, most days of the week.
Night cream and sunscreen since my early 20s too, I do not look how I expected to at this age, nice surprise that was.
I’m paranoid about losing my wallet and other daily carry stuff, so I haven’t. Been carrying stuff for like 30 years. Never lost a wallet, cell phone,pocket knife, or keys. Couple close calls.
Me too. Often when I leave a grocery store or my home I check all my everyday carries. But I still lost my wallet last month. Forgot in on a car roof when I fled from attacking wasps. It flew somewhere and I lost some cards.
Damned wasps. I over-filled a propane tank last week because of wasps.
What is good about not eating the fries until you get home? Did you think the benefits would be self-evident to everyone?
I’ve been really good with taking my medication first thing these days. I also walk during my lunch hour, and use that time to listen to audio books. Sometimes I don’t wanna walk, but I still want to know what happens next, so I go for that walk.
Meal prepping my lunch and breakfast for the week. Makes it so I don’t eat junk food or if I do it’s rationed in such away it’s premeasered. But chicken and salads everyday this way and I mix up my proteins. Leftover steak go great with A1 sauce. Pulled pork with BBQ sauce on a salad to die for.
Just easy for me to pull it out and now exactly what I am eating
Any tips on how to avoid salad getting soggy? I have to meal prep most of my food and soggy veggies are my nemesis.
Put the dressing in another jar. I use small mason jars. I have some glass Pyrex with a snug lid I just pour the dressing on at lunch time and then shake the shit out of it
I’ll give it a go for sure. Thanks
Aren’t they cold by then?
Potatoes when cooked then cooled actually greatly lowers the glycemic index, so it’s weird but actually not a bad habit to have!
Maybe true, but they still taste nasty when cold
First thing I do once I’ve checked into the workplace is to itemize what I’d like to get done today. And I list a bunch but they’re priorities and not requirements. So I have 8 on the list knowing I’ll only do 3 and then 5 will carry.
And I forgive myself if something comes up and it hoses my achievements. And I refer to it often as I get unfocused fast.
Keeps me on track.
Lifeprotips: ADHD edition.
