That whole "eat garbage all the time and then starve yourself with a diet for a while just so you can eat garbage again" approach never worked.

Your default meal should always be healthy and well balanced and provide enough nourishment to maintain yourself. And then once in a while you can treat yourself to a garbage meal.

But what if I mess up on January 2nd? Then I get permission to not try at all until 2026. That's way easier. I can just overeat for a whole year and try again next January 1st.

Bah.

You don’t eat healthy when eating out. Eat well and right on your own at home or packing food for work. Eating out is a treat, not a diet to live on.

People need a reminder that you can have fun resolutions too.

For example, this year when I pass by an ingredient I've never tried before, I'm going to buy it, look up a recipe that uses it and try it. With the goal being that I can expand the staple foodstuffs I keep falling back on week after week.

Living healthy is just the slowest way to die.

Eating a bacon cheese burger while I ponder these serious questions ..... slurping on a chocolate milkshake while I think harder.

as she read the meme she remembered the cold pizza from yesterday is in the fridge and that everything is right in the world

hyperpalatability is insidious. Healthy foods are delicious and packed full of flavors that the vast majority of people have never had the pleasure of experiencing - because all of your palates have been utterly fried by highly refined pseudofoods that are packed full of added sugar, salt, and fat.

My biggest vice is still salt. I have mostly been doing a decent job of reigning it in, but on one occasion recently I ate a bag of chips. Then a few minutes later had a plate full of home-cooked whole grain noodles with a variety of vegetables, in a light savory sauce. It was a meal I knew should have been gourmet, but because I had just consumed significantly more salt than I was used to, I literally could not even taste what I was eating.

Food is very much like drugs. There is a real addiction to it, but if you can work through the difficult beginning stages and commit to getting and keeping the junk out of your life, it becomes all upsides. Longer lifespan, better "healthspan" (ie., less suffering and chronic disease), and contrary to popular belief, food becomes more enjoyable.