I totally innerstand. I used to drink soda, coffee, alcohol, and super sweet tea daily, as my main forms of hydration, and would steadily partake in all the food-like stuffs, too, especially the fast and "convenient" stuff, for the first 4 decades of my life. Once I saw someone clean battery acid off of a car battery with coke, I started to rethink things, then kept learning more as I became nearly bed ridden from my body steadily breaking down under the weight of my choices, both figuratively and literally. Then I switched to diet coke and ginger ale thinking it was a healthier option because, gee, that's what the doc told my family member to drink. Beep. Wrong answer. So much to see behind so many curtains, and once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it.
Kombucha helped me break the soda and beer addiction. Discovered it at an outdoor music festival and never looked back. The ginger variety is my favorite. Then an ER visit helped me flip the rest of my consumption script a little over 3 years ago. Not a method I'd ever recommend, but it sure made me pay attention, whether I wanted to or not. lol Some days I wish I'd never learned anything differently so I wouldn't have to put so much damn thought and effort into nutrition and being prepared, but that particular flavor of my ignorance was no longer blissful anymore, that's for sure. Not that I was ever healthily nourished to begin with. Morbidly obese and morbidly malnourished...quite a painful combination.
I still find it funny/sad/angering how more folks were concerned that I was losing weight too quickly when I changed my diet than were EVER concerned about me reaching well over 300 lbs. as I was constantly being applauded for being such a good cook and such. You really can't make this shit up. lol I'm also angry that more places don't offer more whole food plant-based options on purpose, dammit. Salad eventually gets old each time I go out and not many restaurants take too kindly to me bringing my own food.
