What vices are you fighting off?

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. I've realized I'm an "all or nothing" kind of guy so I have to pick what I'm letting myself get into. Probably why I've never seriously thought of trying a drug or booze etc. I know it would go bad.


Why own a PS4 unless I have an Xbox and wii u and a gaming PC and all the handhelds? Then I can play any game.

Why have one doughnut? They come in packs of 12 no?

This 24 pack of Pepsi should last a long time. Or a weekend.

I'd like a new chair. But it has to be a really specific chair and I need a compete set of four so I'll spend a month obsessively scouring eBay and Etsy and Craigslist hoping to get the EXACT set I want. (I did though). Hey and those chairs don't match my table so I better get a new one of those too. Hmmm you know it really needs a nice rug to bring it all together, better add that too. Oh and a nice light fixture for above the table. The one there doesn't fit.

Luckily my wife helps keep things reined in.
 
Would self loathing count?

It does, I would know.

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. I've realized I'm an "all or nothing" kind of guy so I have to pick what I'm letting myself get into. Probably why I've never seriously thought of trying a drug or booze etc. I know it would go bad.


Why own a PS4 unless I have an Xbox and wii u and a gaming PC and all the handhelds? Then I can play any game.

Why have one doughnut? They come in packs of 12 no?

This 24 pack of Pepsi should last a long time. Or a weekend.

I'd like a new chair. But it has to be a really specific chair and I need a compete set of four so I'll spend a month obsessively scouring eBay and Etsy and Craigslist hoping to get the EXACT set I want. (I did though). Hey and those chairs don't match my table so I better get a new one of those too. Hmmm you know it really needs a nice rug to bring it all together, better add that too. Oh and a nice light fixture for above the table. The one there doesn't fit.

Luckily my wife helps keep things reined in.
That last sentence is key... sometimes focusing on others and their perception of you is the only way to reign in your vices or bad habits. Relationships - any kind, not just with a significant other - can be a huge boon in this way. Keeping your eye on the ball is the hard part.

Also, kind of a weird way to go about it, and much easier said than done, but stop accepting the boundaries the world sets for you, and set your own... sure, there are 12 donuts in there, but you had one donut, which is a complete serving. You're not missing out on anything by not eating the other 11... you got what you came for. Dunkin Donuts may have decided that there are 12 donuts, but you can decide that there's one. "One and done", as they say. And this goes for all the things you mentioned. Not sure this makes much sense, but playing mind games with yourself is also sometimes the only way to keep things in check...
 
Fast food on my way home from work. It can be a long, tedious commute and that shot of sugar, salt, fat and caffeine after a rough day is just too good. I've been going out of my way to avoid the temptation.
 
If being a lazy fuck counts then that's mine. I used to be decently fit in early college. Seeing myself now I'm not as chubby as I was a year ago but still have a long way to go before I can call myself physically fit again. Luckily I have a lot of free time on my hands this upcoming couple of months, perfect time to get back into decent shape.
 
If being a lazy fuck counts then that's mine. I used to be decently fit in early college. Seeing myself now I'm not as chubby as I was a year ago but still have a long way to go before I can call myself physically fit again. Luckily I have a lot of free time on my hands this upcoming couple of months, perfect time to get back into decent shape.


Get of GAF and do it right now. It's the only way.
 
Get of GAF and do it right now. It's the only way.

Funny enough I have for these vacations. I brought my abs wheel and push-up devices. It's gotten so bad since I was physically fit that I struggle to do each set of 8-10 push-ups for each morning workout I was doing. I come back to the house with my work-out shit in 1 day and I'll continue to do muscles throughout the vacation. It's a first step.

I'm also gonna start once again on my xbox fitness when I get back to my apartment from the vacations.
 
Eating 75% of my food with condiments/ketchup e.g. steak with ketchup, potatoes with ketchup, etc. Everything seems to taste so much better with ketchup that it's been a lifelong vice and yet my health is as fine as roses. I haven't told my general practioner this. Trying to withdraw will be tough as I've tried to do it but it drives me nuts.
 
Leftover Baked ham from Christmas. My wife thinks it will last for lunches but someone has been stealing it. I've been blaming my son.
 
Procrastination...right now I keep deciding to never start projects (like getting back into drawing etc.) than start them and not have them go perfectly. Same goes for exercise. I've become too much of a perfectionist, and I can't really deal with giving a dissapointing performance in something.

Eating garbage food is my other one. Been especially bad this Christmas. I'm not fat but I always feel guilty after eating candy or whatever, and it just means I'm living with a fear of developing diabetes right now.
 
Procrastination, absolutely horrible for it. I suppose...I'm just tired.

Soda. Drink the diet stuff a lot, even though it's probably worse than the normal stuff.
 
Not sure if I'd call it a "vice", but bad sleeping schedules. Have been unable to hold down a decent schedule for years, and the doctor was extremely concerned about it, saying she considered my case extremely serious.

Tackling this issue now and it's going decently so far I'd say.

Procrastinating is next on the list.
 
Holy shit OP, it's like you are describing me in regards to the sleeping habit, the smell of cigarettes, and tattoos. I love a nice, intricate, colorful tattoo on women specially.

I have quite a backlog of video games to play and I should get on that. For quite a while I spent way more than I should have on comic books, and Batman statues and figures. I amassed quite a collection of it all. I like right now the Kotobukiya Star Wars ArtFX statues and some of the Dragonball SCultures, and other random figures, but I should stop.

Then there's the porn and soda habit.
Better than booze and drugs I guess.
 
. I've realized I'm an "all or nothing" kind of guy so I have to pick what I'm letting myself get into. Probably why I've never seriously thought of trying a drug or booze etc. I know it would go bad..

I'm an all or nothing kind of guy except I unfortunately got myself into drugs and booze. So I can't have just one beer. My family/friends tell me "How about you just enjoy one or two beers and relax?" I can't, to me if I'm going to drink beer I'm not drinking it for the taste I'm drinking it to get drunk.

Just recently I realized I've had a problem being sober for the last 10 years. As long as I stay busy with work and have structure and discipline in my life, I'm ok. It's when I'm not doing anything or working that I get in trouble like the last few days of no work (construction) during Christmas/New Years. Can't wait to get back to working the first week of January or so.

So yeah my vices include alcohol, painkillers and a few other drugs.
 
Procrastination, junk food and porn, probably in that order. Also staying up too late. I used to think going to bed at 3 AM was late, and then that started to become normal. Then 4AM, then 5 AM, then 6AM, now its become common for me to goto bed at 7AM and wake up at like 2 or 3PM in the afternoon. Its gotta stop.

Its actually sort of hilarious in a sad way, I'm always melancholy about it at night, when I'm heading to bed. I say, tomorrow I'm really going to try and accomplish something, be that school work related, getting some programming in, working towards certain tasks that I've been putting off forever, hell, even mundane things like working on the gaming or reading backlog, and the vast majority of the time, I just push it off. Feel guilty about it, say I'll change, and then the cycle repeats. The biggest thing for me, and probably most, is just getting into a habit. Its just the act of starting thats always the hardest. Actually finally started working out and trying to lose weight, and now I do an hour of exercise every day, its become routine, and I dont put it off. Just getting into the habit was the key. Hopefully I can do the same for the rest of the things I always put off.

Junk food was always a huge vice, and I used to order food/get fast food a few times every week, maybe like once or twice every week, and really the only thing that limited it me was honestly just money. Nowadays since money isnt really an issue, I've been getting fast food like 5-6 times a week on average, and its definitely a habit I have to break. The really sad thing is that my parents cook dinner for my family every night, and always make more then enough, but instead I choose to sit in my room and just get fast food anyway, so I dont even have the excuse of the junk food being convenient or that I'm too tired to make anything. The only positive thing is that I pretty much 100% cut out coke, used to need to drink it with like every meal, and now I just literally drink water with everything. Used to always complain I couldnt enjoy a burger and fries without some ice cold coke, and that it just wasnt the same without it. Then I just sorta quit cold turkey with the pop, and its been fine. I shudder to think just how much worse things would be if I kept that up as well.

As for porn, I typically am checking it like every day. I have literally hundred of gigs of material I have downloaded over the years, half the time is just spent editing and cutting certain files, editting it, cataloging it etc. I have so much that I often forget how what I have, and at times I feel as if I'm just adding to it for the simple sake of collecting. It gets pretty bad sometimes when a new girl catches my eye or something, then I'll suddenly need all the material on her, and will obsessively gather everything I can find. Its like, sometimes the urge will just hit, I could be studying for a big exam, or it could be like 4 AM at night, and I'm just about to head to bed, and suddenly I need a certain file or want to watch a certain video, so I'll be searching for it for hours. Those moments after you do the business is when you feel a certain type of shame lol.

Only good thing was that I never tried any of the other vices like drinking/smoking/drugs etc. Just never appealed to me, though I sorta have an addictive personality, so maybe thats for the best.

- EDIT - Its sorta funny rereading what I wrote, and it sorta sounds depressing or bleak, but my life has actually never been better, and things are incredible. I'm loving things right now, but at the same time, I realize I got alot of things I can improve on, and hopefully can work towards. Always trying to improve.
 
Ugh, recently started smoking again. Well recently as in this past summer. Dammit I was off the stuff for over 2 years, too. Recent job change, pressure with having to move out of our crappy neighborhood and working out the logistics...I just retreated to my old crutch.

I don't feel the "urge" too much, though. I'll go all day at work without one, but then I get home and light up. It's a dumb as hell thing to do, and I don't recommend anyone ever start.
 
Alcohol and food. Mainly for health reasons (my friends think I'm hilarious when I'm drunk, not intentionally though). Taking a break for the holidays mainly because if you give me beer and whiskey and two weeks off work I'm going to drink it. But I'm going to try to behave in January.
 
Okay yeah I'm very bad about Internet and procrastination too. Those are pretty active problems for me.
 
Laziness.

I'm doing pretty well for myself at the moment as a freelancer, but if I got my ass in gear and worked for 5-6 hours a day instead of 2-3 I would make so much more money.
 
Junk food. Junk food. Junk food.

As much as we joke about it, I'd kill for a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos and a 32oz Mountain Dew right now.

But I've put so much sweat into losing weight over the past 5 months there's no way I'm going to fuck that up.
 
. I've realized I'm an "all or nothing" kind of guy so I have to pick what I'm letting myself get into. Probably why I've never seriously thought of trying a drug or booze etc. I know it would go bad.


Why own a PS4 unless I have an Xbox and wii u and a gaming PC and all the handhelds? Then I can play any game.

Why have one doughnut? They come in packs of 12 no?

This 24 pack of Pepsi should last a long time. Or a weekend.

I'd like a new chair. But it has to be a really specific chair and I need a compete set of four so I'll spend a month obsessively scouring eBay and Etsy and Craigslist hoping to get the EXACT set I want. (I did though). Hey and those chairs don't match my table so I better get a new one of those too. Hmmm you know it really needs a nice rug to bring it all together, better add that too. Oh and a nice light fixture for above the table. The one there doesn't fit.

Luckily my wife helps keep things reined in.
Man. I feel your pain. I've been dealing with the stuff on my life and I have to be so careful what I let myself get interested in because i become obsessed so quickly.
 
Food, for the first time in my adult life I'm soon to be out of the obese category. I still miss stuffing myself with delicious shit but it's not worth it.
 
Fast food, staying up late, my phone/internet. Sometimes I just want to throw my iphone away. The worst is when I stay up late and go to a dine-in fast food place or diner and sit there for an hour browsing my phone while eating junk (obviously I don't eat continuously for that hour, but I'll stay there for a good while even when I'm done eating just browsing my phone). I often want to just get out of the house late at night, and the bars are closed (I don't really like bars much, anyway, and I'm not a big fan of alcohol anymore).
 
Smoking and soda are my big ones.

I also get a lot of shit for focusing on other people's problems instead of my own. I let people walk on me, use me, whatever. At work, even though I'm technically disabled, I'll be the first to volenteer for the more physically demanding jobs because I feel guilty.

I also apologize way to much and take the blame when I shouldn't.

Basically, I'm a fucking doormat and I do it because my vice is apparently trying to make others happy.

I'm the opposite, in a bad way. I don't care about what others think of me, when sometimes it's in my best interests to. It never even occurs to me "what will X think of if I do this?"
 
I verbally abuse the ducks at the local park. I know I shouldn't, but I think they deserve it and it makes me feel great.
 
Sugar and too much Internet. The two main things I aim to tackle this new year.

Also special mention to smoking. I stopped 2 years ago but am still occasionally busting for a fag, especially after alcohol and food. LIKE RIGHT NOW! :(
 
video games and computers.

i haven't bought a ps4 or built a pc. i still have my psp, but it is so hard to hold off on buying things.
 
Cocaine and painkillers. I went to a rehab center 4 months ago and have been clean since. Although every day is a struggle, it most definitely gets easier with time.
 
I fixed the Food/Eating issues this year, still in recovery(aka weight loss).

Self-Loathing I am getting better at, probably linked to above

Loneliness is crippling enough that it feels like a vice. Being around friends who have SO's and are happy actually depresses me. No idea how to stop fixating on it.
 
Oh, this is one of my favorite topics!

I have a procrastination problem caused by perfectionism caused by social anxiety. No I've never gone to therapy, I diagnosed myself. It's a terribly annoying chemical defect I inherited from my mother that chooses to manifest itself as a fear of criticism, which lends itself mightily to procrastination. Horrible habit. I have to turn my brain off and just sit down and DO things, or else I won't get to them.

I also horrendously exaggerate my flaws and minimize my accomplishments. I'm a humble person by nature, but I take things way too far. This is also anxiety caused. I also fantasize too damn much. I mean hypothetical interviews with employers for jobs I haven't even applied to yet in which I envision answers to questions and criticisms nobody would ever ask or make. Things like that.

Happily, I'm aware of the problem and actively mitigate it, which is an improvement over most people with similar psychological difficulties. I self-medicate with excessive doses of Marcus Aurelius, Taira Shigesuke and excerpts from the Bhagavad Gita. Need to discipline that brain and control my thoughts and actions. One day I hope to be free of the issue altogether, I "just" need to rearrange my thought patterns. It's important to "look to your front" always and keep focused on the hear and now.

Oh my god, I have this exact same problem! It's truly the only thing that's stopping me from really doing what I want. How do you turn your brain off when the anxiety kicks in?
 
Sweet things. I love cookies, cakes, milkshakes you name it.

I have a family history of diabetes so I should really stop this shit, plus I'm getting overweight.

But I just have such a sweettooth. After every meal I need (ok not need, but crave) something sweet. I really should stop :/
 
Porn addiction. I shouldn't be looking at any because I have a problem consuming it in excessive amounts and with increasingly less boundaries as the habit continues. I had to face my addiction for real this year, and while going through a hard time I decided to try to get on the right track by kicking porn altogether. It's been more of a struggle lately. I actually looked at it for several hours last night, bingeing on as much of "the good stuff" as I could until I shamefully finished the deed. I'm letting down my girlfriend, since I promised her I'd both try harder to stop and to tell her if I skipped up again. Getting a girlfriend actually showed me how messed up I am due to my continued porn obsession. The whole arousal process and completion are entirely changed by the interactive dynamic of having another person in the room looking at me. I feel like such an idiot spending so many years focusing on stuff that somewhat ruined me for real relationships, but my desire to look at it hasn't diminished. It's still a big part of who I am, and I'll have to deal with it for the rest of my life.

It's a real bad year to get out of porn too, what with VR picking up steam. :(
 
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