why?

ahsongbird

Why do we crave things that make us feel bad and avoid things that make us feel good?
The past 2 or 3 mnths Ive fallen back into my old ways, drinking pop eating crap and not exercising. So, as Im sitting here today, eating french fries, drinking a mt dew and smoking a cig, I realize how CRAPPY this makes me feel, Im tired, I have a headache, I want to go to sleep and its only 3 pm. Why , when I know how good I felt when I was being healthy, do I keep doing this to myself? Why choose worn down dead tired over energetic and happy? I just dont understand this logic, this craving, for an aweful feeling...

heathersmilez

Even while eating healthy part of you feels like (or knows for a fact) that you are on a diet and NOT just changing your “life-style” so you feel deprived most of the time then eventually cave and feel you “owe” yourself a treat. Of course this treat turns into “well the whole week is screwed up I’ll start again Monday” and now you’ve indulged for a really long period of time which of course will not have great results and will bum you out further. It’s like depression, it has not yet been proven that depression causes obesity or that obesity causes depression only that the 2 are related and it IS possible to break the cycle.

To get back on track start with switching to diet pop, maybe eventually you can get rid of it all together and if you are going to enjoy an unhealthy vice, choose either smoking OR eating unhealthy. Smoking is an appetite suppressant so obese smokers really annoy me, choose ONE way to die people, ugh!!

No disrespect intended (smoking is a choice and I don’t mock those who do and am lucky to live in a nation that has made it virtually impossible to be affected by second-hand smoke since its banned near entrances of buildings, bars, patios etc) I wish you the very best I’m just being real on trying to get you back on track.

themommie

I'm not sure why, but you know eating better will make you feel better, so get back on track. You can do it. You just have to decide how important it is to you. Also setting a good example for you kids is important. Good luck to you

lutzsher

Its called the "path of least resistance" . . . we keep falling into those old patters because it is easier to just keep doing what we have always done. It is much harder to change, even though that change will bring health and energy!
Our bodies will "crave" that bad stuff because it is empty calories, so we just keep craving it to "fill the void".
I went cold turkey on sweets and it took 2 months before the cravings went away. I caved and had something sweet last week and now Im back to craving it . . . so will have to go completely cold turkey again . . . sigh.