I have a disease called leaky gut and I have to stick to strict diet otherwise ill experience inflammation all over my skin. I have not been doing this. I've been eating pleasurable, indulgent foods and it's hard to stop.
However, I want to change and I want to do it for you guys. As silly as this sounds, I feel like this movement merits me to make sacrifices. People fighting for our nation are making sacrifices, so I should be able to make sacrifices too.
This is gonna be hard, but I'm going to stop eating the pleasurable foods I shouldn't eat for the rest of this month. Wish me luck.
That's great you want to do it for us, but typically doing things like this for other people results in failure as in one way or another, we'll ultimately let you down. So... if you want to do it for us, do it because you also want to.
When I quit smoking and cut down on my drinking, I had to primarily do it because it is what I wanted. It sounds like that is where you at. You want this, but you need motivation. It's okay to use us some days as your motivation, but a lot of it has to come from you.
I don't envy your situation at all and personally I love eating food so honestly, my heart goes out to you. To quite smoking I tried to smoke less each day. And if I failed, I tried again the next day and the next until finally it stuck. I guess in your situation, try to eat less garbage each day. Too much change can shock your system, but at the same time I don't know your condition to determine a proper metric. So take my advice and apply it how you can or toss it. I won't be hurt, I promise.
Life changes like this are hard and there are going to be days when you're going to think life isn't fair and the truth is it isn't. Be honest with how you feel. Yeah others may have it worse. That doesn't mean you aren't allowed to have feelings. You want to do this, but you don't. It will be easier to overcome temptations when you don't fight it as hard and you acknowledge your desires. THEN when you accept yourself you can choose not to indulge.
Best of luck, prayers and good vibes to you. You absolutely can overcome this... and remember, and indulgence every now and then isn't gonna kill you, but you know your limits and what you have to do.