As somebody who used to weigh over 350 pounds, you need to be the thing that stops you. I promise, losing the weight is harder than just not buying that cake in the first place.
For me gaining weight is harder than losing it. I can eat all of that for myself and didn’t gain weight but still got the diabetes for myself
I pray I’m one day able to afford to just go buy a cake for no reason. I might finally be able to gain a pound.
I have found the only way I can not be obese (and I mean the lowest BMI I have had is 24) is the most extreme diets - keto and now carnivore since keto is too hard to stick to
Though I don’t envy you. You have no clear signal that you’re eating unhealthily, but suffer the same ill health that us fatties do if you do eat unhealthily
You need to pump iron and eat protein to gain healthy weight
I think this is true for everyone
that includes you, the lurker reading this comment
Edit: oof, guess i struck a nerve.
It’s a cruel joke that life is too short not to enjoy these things, but by enjoying them, you make your life shorter.
As a “European” I never forget that I can just walk around the corner to buy cake because I don’t live in a suburban hellhole where I need a car to get food
Sounds like communism to me
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If I wasn’t lazy I would be doomed.
I can’t because I live in a small town.
But at least I only need to drive ~20 minutes with the bus
I think cars are cool, but I prefer fire trucks.
Get in your car and go buy yourself a fire truck.
I live inside a firetruck
Uhg, walking. Sounds like work.
Only thing stopping you is your bank account 😆
I mean, unless it’s decorated, cakes are fairly cheap (especially if you compare it to other foods by calories per dollar)
I’d say the biggest thing stopping most people from doing this regularly is a desire to not get type 2 diabetes lol
I’d argue the biggest thing stopping most people from doing this is laziness. Which is great.
Even getting to the store to buy a cake is the only way we do it, making one is too much work (for casual bored cake consumption).
Probably purely the fact that when we go to the store we don’t have store bought cake on the mind, i we don’t buy it.
But I only want to eat tasty cakes and these are expensive.
Eating sugar doesn’t give anyone T2 diabetes. It’s largely a hereditary metabolic disease.
You’re definitely thinking of T1, or health class and the Internet lied to me all my life. Come to think of it…
But for sure you can get T2 from making unhealthy choices with sugar consumption.
Unhealthy food choices in general can help cause obesity which increases one’s risk, as does age; still largely hereditary. How do I know? My maternal grandmother was type 1 diabetic, my mother was T2, myself and all three of my siblings are T2. It’s part of the counseling after your diagnosis. It’s probably better to listen to health care professionals instead of folks on the internet.
Anecdotes are not science.
Obesity and poor diet together do increase the risk of T2. There is a hereditary aspect to it but T2 is 100% a result of lifestyle or other diseases. People don’t spontaneously develop T2 diabetes without eating too much… and sugar is the primary cause of the metabolic imbalance that results in T2 diabetes. It’s not fucking magic that the A1C level is tied directly to your sugar and simple carbohydrate intake… it is literally the result of using carbohydrates as fuel for your body.
T2 is diet related t1 is genetic
I watched a girl storm into a supermarket and grab some things.
I later saw her in the parking lot sitting in her pickup truck’s bed and going down on a whole rotisserie chicken and a cake.
I think about her all the time.
I’m not sure you can use “going down on” in that way, but still I feel like I have to meet this woman.
You never deep throated a chicken leg, or licked between the layers of cake just to get to the frosting?
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Me, few hours ago (◕‿◕)
Wait until they figure out they can buy the cake mixes, and it’s possible to make your own cakes, with as much extra stuff as you want. I once made a cake with embedded cookies, and a peanut butter cream cheese frosting. I regret nothing.
How much of a thing is using a cake mix? I bake often but just using simple ingredients that I buy separately, but cake mixes seem to be really popular, especially in the states. Is that true?
For people who arent super into baking they are a cheap, fun activity for an afternoon. Just add water and maybe some oil mix it with a spoon and bake it for the time stated on the box. No need to store or buy excess cocoa, flour, sugar, eggs and so on.
Thanks for your reply. I can’t say I relate to be honest, I would always want a good amount of all of those ingredients in stock. I can’t really see how mixing powder with water for 2 minutes constitutes an activity for a whole afternoon either.
I can, have and do bake cakes without the use of cake mixes. It’s not hard, and I normally have most of the ingredients on hand. But cake mixes are very popular, come in a wide variety of flavors/types, and, generally speaking, are pretty good. They’re also cheap. And they store well, and efficiently on the shelf or in a cabinet. So it’s just super convenient to have one on hand. It also takes like 30 seconds to make. Add water, oil, egg, mix.
Common in Canada too.
Look at this adult with a car. I bet you even claim to have impulse control too!
If I stopped buying cakes on a whim I might be able to afford a car.
How do you drive to the bakery to buy cakes without a car?
As a diabetic I grapple with this often. Turns out can and should are very different things :( curse you pancreas. You too mom. Kids don’t do drugs with a baby in the womb. Your kids will suffer.
“kids: don’t do drugs with a baby in the womb” is really good advice but kids should not be doing drugs either inside or outside the womb.
Depends on the drug. Kids can have medical issues just like adults can.
Kids should not be pregnant, however.
I mean, before a certain age there’s no kids that do drugs with a baby in the womb. Whose womb? I assume they meant the kid’s womb. But if they’re able to do drugs with a baby in someone else’s womb, who am I to judge such a feat?
LOL, just made a comment about watches and came here.
Mid-80’s and mom was appalled at the notion of a $30 Swatch when a Timex could be had for $10. No Swatch. ☹
Woke up one Saturday morning, decided I was fucking 50-yo and I could buy a damned Swatch if I wanted to! Bought TWO!
Truly realizing you’re an adult is quite freeing. :)
Was expecting this to go differently… Like a Rolex or something.
Like that? Neat.
I bought a Tissot and a G Shock. I hated the terrible little watches I had when younger. They always broke after a year or two.
I LIKE that one! I’ve got Army green ('87), white (new) and a gold one with a leather band (new).
Gf got me a G Shock a couple of months ago! Much love. Got a better band for it, but that’s my outdoor activities watch. Tough, waterproof, suitable for whatever, kayaking, camping, beach, anything.
Never tried a Tissot. What do you like?
And yeah, I’m 52. The watches I had as a kid were shit. I remember dad drilling me to take them off to wash my hands. I have that G Shock underwater 3 times a week, and sometimes salt water.
I’d really like a vintage Rolex at some point. I just like them. A friend gifted me a broken Breitling. I ended up getting it repaired for $200. I love it. I’m not a fancy watch guy but I really appreciate them. The Breitling I wear a few times per month. I could see getting an omega at some point too.
The Tissot is my daily work watch. Classy. Professional. I dress up a bit more than most but I like the look. The watch totally ties it all together, unlike some silly apple watch.
G Shock is my weekend / outdoor watch. I love how sturdy it is. I’ve got a few odd ball fun watches that come out occasionally too.
And eat a whole supermarket rotisserie chicken on your car just after you bought it. Some call it depression, I call it freedom.
But a very select few call it … keto
PSA: Many rotisserie chickens are injected with a sugar solution.
That would need to be disclosed on the nutrition label.
Exactly right. Check the label. Don’t assume it’s just chicken.
Considering how chickens are slaughtered… Are feces keto?
I do not think anyone’s primary concerns about feces are being keto.
You’re also free to get fat and die of a heart attack. It’s like nobody cares.
As much as buying and eating a whole chocolate cake is 100% a bad idea for your health, doing it once is unlikely to have any noticable impact beyond making sure you have horrible shits for a day or so.
Doing it (or similar) habitually will obviously drastically increase your chances of heart attacks and other issues though of course.
But if you want to reward your inner 8 year old every once in a while I say do it, too many people make themselves permanently unhappy with dieting. The (much easier said than done) trick is very well known, and it’s simple moderation.
The dose makes the poison. Usually, this is interpreted as referring to an instantaneous dose, but it also applies to culmulatuve doses, which unhealthy eating is one of the most common examples of.
I wish I could… I can’t drive, and I have celiac disease so bad that it has destroyed my gut so much, that even gluten free cakes make me sick.
BRUCE BRUCE BRUCE BRUCE !!!
The entire confection!
Why would you need to buy a cake? Everything is a cake nowadays. Just stick your knife into something.
Wait. My walls. My doors. I’ve been a man living inside of cake this whole time. Unless…
Perhaps it is time to mention the 🍑 cake, the infinite cake.
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