good luck with the diet! if you're only trying to avoid specific foods like snacks or desserts, something that's surprisingly worked for me is to eat more. if i am full after eating my meals, i'm less likely to snack constantly between meals. if i eat more fruit, i'm less likely to crave other desserts. if i plan an afternoon snack of cheese and crackers, i'm less likely to grab potato chips when i'm feeling peckish. keep in mind you still need to eat mindfully to not overeat so this approach might not be for everyone, but framing the process as "what can i add" has made me naturally reduce a lot of things i wanted to cut without feeling restricted.

i got a reusable sticker book exactly for this reason. it's a notebook with pages of release paper so that you can stick and peel off stickers easily. it gives me the satisfaction of "using" my stickers without the permanence of losing them after sticking

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i heard a similar idea that if humans can't see air then maybe undersea creatures can't see water. so fish would be like birds and crustaceans would be like land dwellers. so yeah jellyfish being storm clouds checks out

it's looking blue to me

i imagine this problem is negligible because of how easily people can travel. diseases don't stop spreading when they see a political border, and there are plenty of other places in the world that are much more remote and more likely to have diseases americans are not resistant to

i have a personal grudge against this series because i came up with the same idea a week before i discovered it and it didn't hit the right spot compared to my own imagination, but otherwise i think it's decent