The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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When I first came to Japan I'd eat a cookie or something and think "What? Where's the fucking sugar?" Now, these days, 20 something years on, I do taste the sweet in Japanese snacks (usually, still not in wagashi which in my mind should not be termed a sweet), but when I go back to the US, and have, as I did a few times ago, some peanut butter chocolate doughnut at Krispy Kreme, I feel as if I am about to go into a diabetic coma. And my friend had two! My point is you can wean yourself off really sweet stuff. I used to love it and now I have far less of a tolerance.
I have heard similar results from others. My aunt went through a phase where she halved the sugar of every recipe she made, and she said that after an initial adjustment period (which was rough) it tasted normal.
And yeah I'm not saying that I have given up because semaglutide doesn't help with my cravings. Quite the opposite - I'm trying very hard. My wife just lost her brother to alcoholism and I'm really trying to not be the next family member she loses to poor lifestyle. But for better or for worse, chemicals aren't helping so I'm trying to work on it through good old-fashioned discipline.
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