It really does

Possibly the cruelest irony of adulthood is that autonomy comes with a shit load of terms and conditions.

For instance, I could eat cookies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day if I wanted to. But it would result in diabetes, obesity, and eventually death. So yes, theoretically I could do it. But not if I want to live for very long.

Damn shame too because I have a weakness for chocolate chip cookies.

With great power and all that
It's brutal, isn't it?

When you realize that your parents also wanted to eat cookies and Ruffles all the time too, but they didn't want to die early and are just making you eat healthy so you don't die early.

Ugh...

I always wanted to grow up so I could eat ice cream whenever I wanted. Welp, grew up, now my tumtum hurts after one scoop. Life's cruel irony.

Wait till you have the epiphany that you can just bake your own cookies and that it's not that much of a hassle at all. 🍪👨‍🍳

Many moons ago, I worked as a realtor, and one of the "tricks" of the trade was to bake cookies before an open house. It makes the house smell great, and you get to give out snacks. It really shattered my internal concept of baking cookies, because I could buy pre-cut cookie dough and a cookie sheet on my way to a house and make delicious, warm cookies in 20 minutes while wearing a suit. No apron, no cleanup, just an increasingly tight pair of suit pants.
- Yep. Though the rolls of cookie dough are too tempting to just...eat lol. I buy the cookie mix which is a bit cheaper and doesn't need refrigerated; a bit messier to prepare though.
Relevant XKCD - Stove Ownership
- Yep!

Not if you're trying to care about your health! Dieting is haaaard.

'Whenever I want' doesn't mean every day.
- It does if you want cookies every day.
- who doesn't want cookies every day

yes except now I'm fat

I don't feel fat ... but my BMI is obese. And, I feel like I'm "always" hungry. The only thing keeping me at this weight is that I keep up my exercise and just suffer through hunger sometimes. :(

There's no way I can afford Wegovy, and I'm sure I'd be one of the people that get blinded by it even if I could afford.
- I have chronic pain. I was instructed by the pain clinic I went to, under no uncertain terms, to exercise 5 times a week. No taking a day because I feel sore or tired or because the overwhelming blinding pain is screaming at me not to. I just have to do it.
  
  That was a year ago.
  
  I am still going.
  
  I went from sedentary for a decade to a healthy BMI and muscle mass because of 1 rule.
  
  Don’t let how I feel guide how I act.
  
  Fuck me it was hard. It is hard. It was hard today. It was hard every single day.
  
  I have currently a torn labrum, a torn rotator cuff, 3 torn things in my knee, 4 bulging disks in my back, a herniated disk, arthritis in 5 joints, and a titanium cage holding part of my spine together.
  
  If you can commit to tracking every single thing you eat in the app MyNetDiary ( it scans barcodes and is free), and exercising 5 times a week; I guarantee two things will happen.
  
  1.) I will do the same and have an accountability buddy to keep me going.
  
  2.) You WILL be successful in the weight loss and gaining a healthy life.
  
  Your call if you want to transform your life.
  
  I have PT exercises and low impact options for days. I have whole fitness plans and diet plans from distinctions, and hundreds of hours with PTs. I have so much to share with someone whose life I can help gain so so much…
  
  You just have to commit to joining me.
  
  A year from now you could be vastly different than you are now. So could I. IF we keep our promises to ourselves and one another.
- Same, I always feel hungry but if I work out I don't feel hungry all the time. Funny thing is, finding the time for going to the gym has been difficult since I got RTO'd so my weight has skyrocketed. I have a very fast metabolism where I can gain or lose weight very fast.
- https://untranslatable.substack.com/p/kuchisabishii
  
  I know I "find" snacks far more often than I need...