I’m shouldn’t have ice cream due to my Type 2 diabetes, but once in a while, I stop at Mc Donalds and get myself a McFlurry with M&M’s. I get a bit sick later, but I find it worth it.
Silly answer: croissants when I know I’m gluten intolerant.
Real answer: the devil’s lettuce. 🤷
Speed, ketamine
Hell yeah
Probably CBD/THC gummies. I don’t tell people I take them for whatever reason.
The depressing part is seeing people call McDonald’s sundae and new socks luxury…
She didn’t say sundae. She said McFlurry. Big difference.
They are using it in a different sense. Not that they are considered luxury goods by being expensive and associated with higher socioeconomic standing, but that they are a frivolity which is not necessary and which has tangible costs that they feel are justified due to pure pleasure.
Yeah but new socks are necessary when the old ones are worn out, and honestly, I understand indulging in an ice-cream once in a while but make it something worth it instead of McDonald’s sundae…
This is called, “yucking someone’s yum.”
Sure, there’s much better ice cream than McDonald’s, but sometimes a McDonald’s sundae hits just right.
Blow prolly tbh
I’m thinking of that scene from Dr. Doolittle with Eddie Murphy where the lady keeps going to the hospital with an allergic reaction to shellfish. Later, she’s in a bathroom stall gnawing on a lobster while her face swells up.
I never understood that, but then my doctor told me to cut out sugar or my pancreas might explode (or something) and I immediately thought of that character.
The new socks I bought. My old socks were technically still not broken, just worn down and faded. But new quality socks are one of life’s great pleasures.
Dark chocolate. I’ve apparently developed what appears to be a nickel sensitivity that manifests itself as itchy rashes on my hands, and guess what has a high amount of nickel in it? I’ve been ok at cutting out other foods but while I reduced my intake I’d rather be itchy than give up my chocolate.
You might have just solved a year long mystery between me and my doctor…I’ve been getting random rashes all over my arms and torso, and we have yet to determine why. I love dark chocolate.
I went to my doctor about it too! She was convinced it was something I was physically in contact with so I was trying to eliminate types of fabrics, changing detergents, soaps, my cleaning gloves, wearing shea infused gloves at night, etc etc and at the same time I was eating dark chocolate nearly every night. I finally cut back in an effort to lose some weight and the rashes got better. Someone somewhere in my searches mentioned the nickel thing and it all clicked. You can search for “systemic nickel sensitivity” and “dietary nickel and dermatitis” and see if it sounds like what you’re dealing with. If so, I’m glad I could help!
Literally going through eliminating sources of contact dermatitis right now, and I’m getting rashes where it makes no sense for contact dermatitis. Genuinely thank you so much, you may have saved me ANOTHER YEAR of frustration!
I’m so glad I could put you onto a new lead!
Here’s a paper I found that has some good info, especially the Dietary Nickel section. It has a food table under the treatment section too.
You’re a doll, and I wish you a chocolate-filled future with no rashes 🥹
Iron supplements, vitamin C and moderation all help so hopefully no need to give it up entirely 💜
It might be another food allergy as well. I have skin reactions to dairy, and it took me years to figure it out because a) it’s a slow reaction (6ish hours after I eat it), and b) I also assumed it was something my skin was coming into contact with
And in keeping with the OP, I also still eat dairy from time to time. Not a severe reaction, it won’t become a severe reaction, and there’s still no good replacement for actual cheese, dammit. (Daiya is close enough…sometimes…)
Lactose intolerance so same as you op. Not so much sick but I get the runs.
Get lactase pills.
I have them but where is the fun in that?
Fun = enjoying ice cream without diarrhea afterwards
You have an odd definition of fun mate. But to each their own.
Lagavulin. Any alcoholic drink in general, bit a good whisk(e)y and particularly a more um… aromatic variant is a weakness for me.
A friend of mine is lactose intolerant and used to eat chocolate anyway, which kind of turned her into a diarrhea time bomb. Usually at most a half hour later she would suddenly get up and run to the bathroom, anything in the way was toast.
I literally envisioned her running to the restroom and everything between her starting point and the bathroom literally turned into toast.
As a lactose intolerant individual, I can assure you that once a quarter or so Mexican food beckons me and a willingly walk into that dark night. No regrets… at least not while I’m eating. Afterwards there are regrets.
Oh god, reminds me of the time I was with that same friend at a Mexican restaurant. They had decorative chilis on the plate, which we were explicitly warned not to eat. I carefully ate a bit of one of them. I grew up with hot food. She didn’t. She looked at me casually munching on one of the Chilis and thought, “doesn’t seem that bad”. Long story short, I ended up running to the kitchen asking for a glass of lactose-free milk, and of course they only had normal milk. Thank god there was no accident in the car on the way back.
Same. Not from chocolate, but from ice cream, butter, and foods like pizza and lasagna that are made with lots of cheese…my bf’s favorite meals.
how sick is sick?
High sugar makes me tired, and if I don’t drink plenty of water, I wake up with a headache similar to a hangover.
High blood sugar presents differently in different people. For me, I get super nauseated, hot like I’m running a fever, and a pounding headache in my ears.
Other folks may get dizzy, light headed, become unreasonably angry, or incoherent.
Bonus: A lot of these are the same symptoms for LOW blood sugar. 😟
Isn’t McDonald’s in general a luxury you shouldn’t have?
McDonald’s isn’t a luxury, at best it’s expensive…
once in a while,
Sorry if this sound negative, it is not my intention at all. Obviously, I don’t know you or how you deal with the disease so don’t get mad at me for saying that: if your ‘once in a while’ is indeed rare and if it is not one exception among many others, that should not be an issue to enjoy a treat once in a while. If it is not, if it’s too frequent or if you have too many other exceptions going one next to this one, and if you have not done so already, I would urge you to openly discuss that with your doctor (and with your nutritionist) just to make sure it’s not too much risk for your health. Diabetes is a real nasty disease… I say that because I’ve seen someone not taking their diabetes seriously enough and… For a few years, nothing happened at all but then they, almost suddenly, their health started to fall apart and what they went through, ending up blind and their body literally wrecked, I would not wish it to my worst enemy.
And to answer your question, my true luxury is time. Making time for live.
It is me deciding years ago that this time we all get to live on the planet was more valuable than my career and the money that went with it. And that it was more valuable than wasting it pretending to be someone I was not, in order to please a bunch of people. I loved that job, I made a decent living and was not too bad at it either, but it was also killing me, quite literally as one morning I narrowly escaped death (too much stress and exhaustion, substance abuse seldom make for a good mix). That was the moment when my spouse and I agreed the best thing to do was for me to quit that job, and question the central place of work in my live, and for us two to change our way of life, focusing on simpler things and on ourselves and being together.
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