It really does

Possibly the cruelest irony of adulthood is that autonomy comes with a shit load of terms and conditions.

For instance, I could eat cookies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day if I wanted to. But it would result in diabetes, obesity, and eventually death. So yes, theoretically I could do it. But not if I want to live for very long.

Damn shame too because I have a weakness for chocolate chip cookies.

With great power and all that
Unless you're metabolically lucky. I've been eating whatever I want for decades, and I'm in excellent health and never get fat. In fact I just had a checkup this morning lol. Just random genetics. I shouldn't gloat but it's fucking awesome!
- I must hate you now. Sorry, dems the rulez!
- You sound like this "Unless you are just built different. I've been smoking a pack a day for decades and I'm in excellent health. Maybe I should start smoking twice as much."
- It is nice but we still bloat 😞 stupid summer and my sexy tummy
It's brutal, isn't it?
When you realize that your parents also wanted to eat cookies and Ruffles all the time too, but they didn't want to die early and are just making you eat healthy so you don't die early.
Ugh...
Diabetes and obesity in the long term, heartburn and indigestion in the short term.

I always wanted to grow up so I could eat ice cream whenever I wanted. Welp, grew up, now my tumtum hurts after one scoop. Life's cruel irony.

Even if it didn’t, you would get fat because of it, or maybe get diabetes

Not if you're trying to care about your health! Dieting is haaaard.

'Whenever I want' doesn't mean every day.
- It does if you want cookies every day.
- who doesn't want cookies every day

My first realization that I was truly an adult came when I was in the checkout line at Albertsons, saw a stack of freshly made peach pies, and realized I could just buy one and eat the whole thing, cuz I was a grownup. So I did!

Ooooh how was it?
- Fantastic! I pretty much just ate peach pie all weekend. And also, I've made tons of pies since then but almost always buy peach pie premade, because peeling and slicing those slippery suckers is a bitch.

yes except now I'm fat

I don't feel fat ... but my BMI is obese. And, I feel like I'm "always" hungry. The only thing keeping me at this weight is that I keep up my exercise and just suffer through hunger sometimes. :(
There's no way I can afford Wegovy, and I'm sure I'd be one of the people that get blinded by it even if I could afford.
- I feel like I’m “always” hungry
  If I'm hungry, I'll cut up a banana, an apple, strawberries, and grapes. I toss them and cover them all with some yogurt with a bit of granola. It's easy to make, it's a lot of food, and it keeps me from binging on other higher-calorie snacks. I used this to lose some weight a couple of months ago.
- I have chronic pain. I was instructed by the pain clinic I went to, under no uncertain terms, to exercise 5 times a week. No taking a day because I feel sore or tired or because the overwhelming blinding pain is screaming at me not to. I just have to do it.
  That was a year ago.
  I am still going.
  I went from sedentary for a decade to a healthy BMI and muscle mass because of 1 rule.
  Don’t let how I feel guide how I act.
  Fuck me it was hard. It is hard. It was hard today. It was hard every single day.
  I have currently a torn labrum, a torn rotator cuff, 3 torn things in my knee, 4 bulging disks in my back, a herniated disk, arthritis in 5 joints, and a titanium cage holding part of my spine together.
  If you can commit to tracking every single thing you eat in the app MyNetDiary ( it scans barcodes and is free), and exercising 5 times a week; I guarantee two things will happen.
  1.) I will do the same and have an accountability buddy to keep me going.
  2.) You WILL be successful in the weight loss and gaining a healthy life.
  Your call if you want to transform your life.
  I have PT exercises and low impact options for days. I have whole fitness plans and diet plans from distinctions, and hundreds of hours with PTs. I have so much to share with someone whose life I can help gain so so much…
  You just have to commit to joining me.
  A year from now you could be vastly different than you are now. So could I. IF we keep our promises to ourselves and one another.
- https://untranslatable.substack.com/p/kuchisabishii
  I know I "find" snacks far more often than I need...
- Same, I always feel hungry but if I work out I don't feel hungry all the time. Funny thing is, finding the time for going to the gym has been difficult since I got RTO'd so my weight has skyrocketed. I have a very fast metabolism where I can gain or lose weight very fast.

Yes but mom gets replaced with guilt and adult responsibility.

And you can’t hide from them as easily.

What really grinds my gears is I could have done it when I was young and not suffered any physical consequences. If I do it now I get fat er

Idk. Personally I've always loved being an adult. The bullshit comes from the world not from me

Also, fried bacon!

I never wanna eat cookies anymore tho 😩

I love how easy it is to just make cookies yourself too.

The other day, I had ginger cookies smothered in mascarpone for dinner.

That sounds like heaven

Thanks for reminding me to eat some cookies with the coffee I just made so I could eat some cookies.

Yeah, that way lies diabetes. For some of us.