People have always said that life would be miserable without sweets and junk food so you shouldn't cut them out of your diet. I found out that they were wrong.

In the beginning, I believed them. I derived so much enjoyment from eating all kinds of sweets and junk food, that the world seemed bleak if I picture it without them.

After going OMAD and minimizing my sugar intake, I have gotten rid of the crazy, insatiable craving that plagued me every single day for a decade, and I feel so free! I realized that the idea that I need junk food to be happy was just the addiction talking, coupled with society's normalization to regularly consume unreasonable amount of sugar and processed foods.

A non-smoker doesn't feel deprived when he doesn't smoke because he has no interest in smoking. A non-drinker doesn't feel deprived even when he goes a year without alcohol. It's the same with food. You don't feel deprived if you're not enslaved by the crippling food addiction that has become accepted and encouraged by food manufacturers.

In fact I am much happier now because I have switched my enjoyment to other things: physical activities, playing with my dog, spending time with my family, video games, board games, reading books, sketching anime. THESE bring me a much more wholesome sense of enjoyment without the misery after eating junk.

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