Feel free to be loose with your definitions. “Not usually considered a drug” is fine to qualify as “non-drug”, for instance. I’m not really thinking so much of “foods”, though, but maybe “food ingredients” and substances found in food ingredients are fine, especially if they’re quasi-drug-like or if you’d get a lot of the same benefits/enjoyment from it consuming it straight rather than in food.
Also ITT, tell other users why their substances actually are drugs actually.
Mine:
- Chamomile - good for my mood and gives me vivid dreams.
- Capsaicin - I and Wilbur Scoville are well acquainted.
- Cacao - I don’t really do cacao any more because I’ve quit caffeine, but I include it here because I still miss sucking on unsweetend baker’s chocolate daily.
I once spent an entire summer giving up as much sugar as possible. No sweets, minimal added sugar, minimal processed food, pretty much my only sugar was fruit. I ran every single day.
I was miserable. Insanely depressed, grumpy, exhausted, moody, awful cravings and just so generally unhappy. None of this “I quit sugar and now I’m so full of energy and feel so healthy and happy!” Absolutely the opposite. At the end of the summer I had lost exactly 4 lbs and it wasn’t because I had gained muscle mass either.
Said fuck that, life is about balance and if I can’t eat ice cream once in awhile it’s not worth being alive. But sugar is absolutely addictive and it gave me a new perspective on anyone trying to quit anything like cigarettes or heroin.
Yes, exactly this. I get really miserably depressed. I can not stress how much. And if a craving hits in vicinity of sweets or such, everything gets so much worse bo matter the outcome (resist or cave in).
So I settle with more or less controlle dosages.