Five years in and struggling with nerve damage / depression

[AndBreathe]

Giving up smoking was the hardest thing I've ever done, it was two weeks of feeling physically miserable (and sometimes like my skin had fire ants crawling all over it), but as with the herb (which wasn't fun to quit, but easier) it came down to a question of money, I was smoking so much that a choice had to be made between "Do I quit these things, or do I stick with them and end up homeless?". Casual sex wasn't something I quit by choice either, I had a friend with benefits situation but then she met her current partner and it came to an end, and now the anti-depressants I'm mean that I'm unable to have sex more than once a week as it is (and I've now reached an age where I no longer want casual sex, but a longterm loving partner), and I quit alcohol because I went out earlier this year for a friend of a friend's birthday, he drunkenly started a fight and it's a miracle he wasn't killed, they beat him in such a way that it was terrifying (I'm pretty sure all were either in the military or at least had been) due to the way they were hitting him, and I hid in the corner absolutely terrified, and haven't touched a drop since.

I know the above is all a bit extreme but the main reason I quit my vices are due to no longer being able to afford them, I'm physically unable to indulge, or slightly traumatised by what I saw, whereas crisps, croissants, chocolate, etc, etc, aren't an issue and as they're my only way to get a high it seems I'm really struggling, despite the physical pain it causes me.

I will do my best to go low carb, and I'm in the UK, London, out of interest, what's the low sugar / carb chocolate you have each day?


Thank you for the above too, I'd not heard of the phrase disordered eating before, but will look in to it.

I'm one of life's weirdos, in that I don't care for chocolate, but I do know folks buy their lower carb chocolate in the main supermarkets, including Lidl and Aldi and probably online too. I believe the magic thing is 70% or more cocao solids, so it tends to be darker chocolate, but once you have it a few times, milk chocolate tastes very sweet.

I'm sure others with more info than me will pop in with their favourites.

 

[Spirit01]

I think I covered quite a bit in my post “who’s to blame” so I won’t go into too much. All the advice given is great & what people are saying is that’s what works for them which doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for you, but that doesn’t mean you’ve failed it just means move on to something else. Sometimes the way Diabetes and its effects are described can scare the **** out of you hence why I call it my “health issue”. I’m not in denial it’s how I cope mentally with it. Anyway, I fast intermittently and have the occasional treat but in the early days I had no control, I liked to eat. It’s a bit like shopping when you’re hungry, you buy things you wouldn’t if you weren’t hungry so what I did was to cook up 12 or so hard boiled eggs and leave them in the fridge so I could take one if I fancied one. I’d cut up cubes of cheese & take a couple if I fancied them. Now I know some won’t agree but I also cooked up loads of chipolatas and leave them in the fridge. Sometimes I’d have an egg, 2 chipolatas, 2 cubes of cheese or just one or the other. It’s easy to grab the wrong stuff if we have to faff about preparing something so my way was to get good stuff prepared. A word about the chipolatas and sausages, most supermarket ones are bad news and I never buy them. Go to a good butcher who uses a high percentage of actual meat. As I said earlier this is how I deal with it, if it helps you or anyone else great but if not try something else. Good luck with whatever you try