What vices are you fighting off?

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Procrastination due to losing focus easily. Some say it could be ADD but I don't want to go to someone and ask to be diagnosed for it since some people say they'll assume you're a drug addict. Like fuck me that'd be a dumb shit to be asked by a doctor.

I'll do it eventually because I know I'm at a critical low now. Any lower and I'll probably end up doing something to myself I'll regret.
 
Staying up way too late, smoking, drinking, spending too much. So yeah, lots of work to be done. Been eating a lot better and spending more time outdoors (not now cuz winter) though so I guess that's a step forward.
 
I enjoy staying up late way too much (~4am every night) and smoking weed. Subsequently, the munchies are an even bigger problem that I struggle with.
 
Alcohol somewhat. Not in excess, but I found myself having a drink every single night after work. On weekends, I would over indulge for no reason except that I could.

I have a family history of alcoholism so it's been a relief that the past two weeks I've totalled 2 mixed drinks and both have been very light on the alcohol. I'm taking every precaution necessary so nothing ever spirals out of control.
 
If I don't pay attention to my alcohol consumption, it can spiral out of control. I'd like to drink less than I do, but for now at least it's not really affecting my functioning. It used to be that I didn't go more than a day without something to drink but now it's more like a few days.
 
I quit video games as a new years resolution. Uninstalled steam and origin. So far so good, but I still get urges to escape from life to a digital world.

Also FapGAF should try noFap. Best decision I made and I just hit the 1 year mark.
 
Food, I've lost over 50lbs with another 30lbs to go. It's a daily battle and honestly if you put a Big Mac meal in front of me I'd eat it, so I just avoid temptation the best I can by avoiding certain places or situations.
 
Soda and alcohol. Well, they're not really vices but i need to stop eating and drinking shit - so those two things are gonna have to chill on the shelf for awhile. I'll probably get a beer or two with a friend but that's it.
 
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Food, alcohol, cigarettes. I go through small time frames of being good, but I typically end up on a bender after a few weeks.
 
Yeah a fair few. I smoke, enjoy a drink to put it mildly and I do drugs every other weekend. I wouldn't say I'm fighting it off, though I would like to give up the smokes. I'm back in university for the 2nd semester so I'll probably tone it down a tad. I like to have a good time anyway.
 
Staying up too late. I need to stop doing that. I always find reasons to delay my bedtime (from GAF to last minute studying) even though I hate dark hours and live for the sunlight and early mornings.

I wouldn't call it a vice, but my workaholism is pretty bad. I can be completely unproductive, but I need the solace in the fact that I spent a billion hours studying (and learning nothing) than taking proper amount of breaks and being more productive.
 
i need to quit smoking. i'm 36 and have smoked a pack a day for at least 18 years now. i'm literally shaking my head as i type this. beyond stupid.
 
I've been really good over the last year or so and given most of the more dangerous ones up; smokes and drugs. I still have a thing for sugar though that I need to get on top of.
 
Smoking.... Like a friend of mine said its so 90's (when we were in high school)

I'm running to off set the cravings but its been a month and I could happily have one now
 
Tapering off Xanax XR. Was on 9mg a day and I am down to 5. It's a long ride but I think I am ready to get it gone. The taper takes fucking forever though to be safe. It is all prescribed and stuff but I suppose its kind of a vice.
 
Fatty foods, and I actually seem to be doing well.

I usually buy my lunch at the cafeteria here at work and most of the entrees give you a choice of fries or salad as the side. The past couple years I've almost always gotten fries. It's not making me super heavy or anything (I'm 6'1" and 185-190 lbs), but I know they're not good for me. Anyway, now I always get salad.

Since the start of the year I've basically only gotten fries when I go out to eat (which is rare), and even then, only when it's out for a burger (which is even rarer).
 
I'm dependent on adderall. I used to take 200mg a day, and now I'm down to 30-60mg a day. After the honeymoon period wore off it really messed up my life, but now that I've used it more responsibly things have been great: credit score is super high, I eat well, getting my master's degree, and moving out of my parent's house.

Ideally, I'd like to stop taking it all together, but it's not that harmful when the dose is low.
 
Wanderlust.

When life gets super complicated, I find running away to be my very first thought. I'm always successful in fighting it off but I fear some day I may not be.
 
Ohnonono said:
Tapering off Xanax XR. Was on 9mg a day and I am down to 5. It's a long ride but I think I am ready to get it gone. The taper takes fucking forever though to be safe. It is all prescribed and stuff but I suppose its kind of a vice.
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How long have you been taking it?

I took lorazepam for a month and it turned me into a nutcase and even made the anxiety worse. Perhaps Xanax would help me.
 
amphetamine said:
How long have you been taking it?

I took lorazepam for a month and it turned me into a nutcase and even made the anxiety worse. Perhaps Xanax would help me.
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I have been on Xanax XR for at least 2 years. That is how my dose got that high. XR is nice, it does not get you high or interrupt what your doing. It helped me get control of my anxiety. It is still DANGEROUS though. I tried to be tough and not take my meds one day cause I forgot to take them to work with me. At about the 20 hr mark after my last does I got strange leg pains, my skin started going numb and I felt like hell. I left and got my pills. Shit can actually kill you. I would recommend trying to stay on a lower dose of it, tapering off 9 mg takes almost a year in order to be COMPLETELY safe.
 
InfiniteBento said:
Wanderlust.

When life gets super complicated, I find running away to be my very first thought. I'm always successful in fighting it off but I fear some day I may not be.
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Don't fear it, embrace it. If you are not happy where you are, then that is the easiest way to change everything.

I'm waiting for someone to buy my house and then I'm free to wander again. This may not be a good choice to make for many, I understand that.

Mine would be to stay away from the internet. Managed to do that in the fall when they took out the phone lines here and I didn't get the shitty 3g they have here. Winter and snow (and that many things require internet) forced me to get it as it gets boring.
 
Junk food.

It's only day one and, man, the craving to just go to McDonalds is strong. But I've resisted pretty well. I had soup for lunch, chicken salad for dinner, a small packet of Weight Watchers crisps for a snack, and I've been drinking water all day. I'm proud of myself as my diet used to be pretty shocking. I now weight 14st because of it. I hope to lose a lot of it by April.
 
SBH said:
Don't fear it, embrace it. If you are not happy where you are, then that is the easiest way to change everything.

I'm waiting for someone to buy my house and then I'm free to wander again. This may not be a good choice to make for many, I understand that.

Mine would be to stay away from the internet. Managed to do that in the fall when they took out the phone lines here and I didn't get the shitty 3g they have here. Winter and snow (and that many things require internet) forced me to get it as it gets boring.
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It's difficult when money isn't a thing and life always finds a way to fuck shit up for me if I plan it out.

At this point, the moment I find a couch to crash on, I'm out of here. Florida is dreadful.
 
InfiniteBento said:
It's difficult when money isn't a thing and life always finds a way to fuck shit up for me if I plan it out.

At this point, the moment I find a couch to crash on, I'm out of here. Florida is dreadful.
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Yeah, it's not easy. I just read the word wanderlust and as I'm full of it now and anxious to get going, I just rambled.

Hope you find some place. Florida with all the wonderful stories I've read here doesn't sound good at all.
 
Wasting time on the internet. It's probably my worst habit. It only eats about an hour of my free time, but still, that could be better used elsewhere.

Can't think of anything else. I guess I sometimes get too many projects going at once instead of focusing on one thing.


CyanideStrike said:
Junk food.

It's only day one and, man, the craving to just go to McDonalds is strong. But I've resisted pretty well. I had soup for lunch, chicken salad for dinner, a small packet of Weight Watchers crisps for a snack, and I've been drinking water all day. I'm proud of myself as my diet used to be pretty shocking. I now weight 14st because of it. I hope to lose a lot of it by April.
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Keep at it. After a while junk food will not even enter your mind. My only food vice at this point is dried cranberries, which are fine for you anyways, but I sometimes eat too many. :P
 
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