I eat around 300 to 600 calories of chocolate a day. It’s bad for my health in the long run but I don’t care. I have no plans on stopping.
I also drink coffee every day. It’s bad for my teeth and creates a dependency, but it will take too much effort to quit. Plus all it takes is one day where you need an energy boost and you start the dependency over again.
I crack my knuckles. No way I’m stopping this. It feels too good and the possible damage is very vague and, to my knowledge, unsubstantiated.
I’m a boring health nut, but I routinely take hour-long, scalding hot showers that really make my bacne flare up. I know from experience taking only short, cool showers would help tremendously.
I smoke cigarettes, I drink daily and I do not eat enough, let alone healthy food.
Believe it or not, some smokers do successfully quit by decreasing their daily use gradually or after a series of failed attempts. In my experience, the latter category are generally older smokers developing health consequences.
A lot of the ones already mentioned (hot showers, coffee, cracking knuckles).
My additions to the list:
Wearing sexy heels. They squish my toes together, scrape against the back of my heel, and don’t do my calves any favors, but at least my legs look good!
Talking on the cell phone. I guess this one is arguable, but I talk on the phone enough that if cell phones really do emit radiation waves that cause cancer, I’m going to die a premature death.
I smoke, drink, eat fatty foods, drive a bit too quickly and pick at scabs before they’re fully healed.
I no longer have unprotected sex and/or sex with multiple partners over short periods, but that’s probably only because I’m in an long term monogamous relationship. Also, aging.
I drink Diet Pepsi. Constantly. To the exclusion of water on most days. In fact, I just finished a can and will go get another from the fridge the second I hit the submit button.
I am sure there are health consequences, but I have not yet experienced any and I get killer caffeine withdrawal headaches if I don’t have it, so I will keep drinking it until it becomes cost prohibitive to do so.
I also take really long, really hot showers (sometimes I overheat myself and have to lie down before I fall over) and don’t get enough exercise, and can go all day long reading on my computer without interacting with another human being. [Which is probably a negative action for my computer too- how many hours a day can a laptop be used before it dies?] And I eat crap most of the time when I eat at all (mostly homemade crap though so I can feel a little more self-righteous about it) and I don’t sleep much- but I blame that on insomnia more than habit- all of which will eventually catch up with me.
Now that I re-read this I sound like a right mess. But aside from some recent unrelated health issues (weird intestinal problems that the doctor assures me are unrelated to eating/drinking habits and went so far as to okay unlimited amounts of Diet Pepsi when I was on full liquids immediately after surgery) I am in great shape so far health-wise.
I smoke. Down to 2 to 3 a day, but still. The funny thing is: I’m a runner. Currently training for a half marathon in May. Don’t care. I like smoking, dammit. I’m sure I’ll quit when I start really upping my mileage, but so far it hasn’t really affected me too much. (Ran last season not smoking after I had quit, then started again so I have some basis for comparison.)
I’m also addicted to nasal spray. I just can’t quit! I find the feeling of being not able to breathe out of my nose so horrifying I keep using it, even though I know that’s whats causing the dependency. Every eight hours, like clockwork, sometimes more. I try to time my last spray of the night so I don’t wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning, not being able to breathe, needing to use it. It’s terrible.
I also smoke things other than tobacco. Pretty much every other day, on average. Negative consequences of that being it makes me lazy, eat a lot and hurts my chest after awhile. That’s why I try to restrict it to evenings, after dinner, when I’m not planning on doing anything or eating anything anyway. I figure I’m able to hold down a professional job, exercise regularly and lead an otherwise active life, so other than the actual act of smoking, it’s fine.
I wonder how bad that is for you? It seems like such a small amount that it wouldn’t really make much difference health wise. If I was able to only smoke twice a day, I may just happily keep it that way. I quit two years ago because there’s no way I’d be able to just smoke two a day.
Dunno, really. I assume it’s bad because, hey, it’s smoking a cigarette. I exercise so much and eat so healthy though, I pretty much consider it a wash.
I have a sweet tooth, but I generally watch what I eat and I exercise regularly so it really isn’t a big deal. When I consider the long long list of things I don’t do that most other people do, I refuse to beat myself up about it.
That’s my take on it, too - I don’t drink, smoke, drink caffeine, do drugs, eat too many fried foods or stay up late. The chocolate and jellybeans in my cupboard are there to stay (well, not these ones - I’ll eat these ones. The idea of chocolate and jujubes in the cupboard is here to stay.)
The long hot showers is one of my weaknesses too - I know it dries my already dry skin out more, but it feels soooooo good.
Then there’s The Dope when I should be out looking for work.
I stay up too late. Over and over again, I get caught up with reading or doing something on the computer and I know it’s late and I’ll be tired in the morning and I hate being tired. I’m not one of those people who can say “wow, I’m tired” and then kind of shake it off … I am miserable for hours after I wake up after not getting enough sleep.
And then there’s another good book or mindlessly interesting thread online and I’m going the whole thing all over again.
But aside from some recent unrelated health issues (weird intestinal problems that the doctor assures me are unrelated to eating/drinking habits and went so far as to okay unlimited amounts of Diet Pepsi when I was on full liquids immediately after surgery) I am in great shape so far health-wise.