What are some bad habits of yours that you're trying to fix?

These are a few of my bad habits that I am trying to fix. Please help if you have solutions to this, and share your bad habits too

• I am a very miserly person. Like, I over calculate even if I have to spend 10 rupees. I try to avoid giving tips at restaurants. I bargain even from a street vendor. All this and more. It is probably because when I was in school our family had a severe financial crunch for a few years and we had to watch every rupee we were spending. And from then on, I do not spend on anything unless I absolutely have to. This phase continued even after we recovered from our financial state and we were not poor anymore. Now I earn in the six figures but I still do not spend liberally, which my friends seem to do so easily, even if they earn less than I do.
• I procrastinate. I always do things at the nth hour. This was there from school, and continued to college and now work. Let's say I have to finish a work in 3 days. I always seem to start on the second half of the third day. The worst part is, I manage to finish it and that's what gives me confidence to keep procrastinating everytime. The bad? The anxiety that this gives me.
• I cannot control my urge to eat sweets and junk food. I mean everyone loves these foods but is wise enough to not overeat right? But I don't know how to stop. I keep eating like there is no tomorrow. Once I finished a whole box of sweets in an hour. I don't know why I am so greedy when it comes to food. And the result? The result is I put on weight and have to go on a crash diet and exercise for months to lose the fat. But I go back to eating after losing weight, and then I do the dieting/exercising again. This keeps happening in phases and I'm so fed up.

These are the top 3 bad habits that I want to get rid of. What are yours?

I share two of the bad habits from your list.

Urge to eat sweets, not just any junk food but unquantifiable amounts of sweets. 🤢It’s like drugs. I resist resist and then a breaking point comes where I give in and become absolutely unstoppable.Thankfully though I haven’t given up on myself and been working on getting rid of this habit relentlessly! Intermittent fasting for the win - At least I can control the times, if not the foods.

Procrastination which leads to a lot of last minute hustle bustle and disorganization. Again, working fiercely on getting rid of this habit as well. The one-minute rule has helped me a lot in conquering this bad habit.Still a long way to go though.

Overthinking way too much..about the past and whats going to happen in the future. It doesnt help me in anyway,I am so used to it that I feel guilty at times if I dont do so.And with all that overthinking I end up wasting time and being reckless towards the end.

Procrastination

Eating junk food

Im too into my phone

Occasional narcotics

All stuff I gotta fix

I also play Bollywood songs on my phone in a very loud manner. Almost obnoxiously loud

Absolutely nothing. I'm perfect. It shocks me daily how I was born this way.

Originally posted by: Raffaello

Overthinking way too much..about the past and whats going to happen in the future. It doesnt help me in anyway,I am so used to it that I feel guilty at times if I dont do so.And with all that overthinking I end up wasting time and being reckless towards the end.

Smoking: although it unlike most of my friends, I started smoking very late. I started smoking since 2018 regularly, when I was 25, while most of my friends started when they were early teens.

But since I started, I have started smoking too much. First it was as always one per day, than two, than three. And now 10-12 a day. I want to quit, but can't.

Not eating properly: As anyone here in IF knows me, I am not a foodie one. And not just that, my eating habit is erratic, at home atleast my mom or family members forced me to eat. But when I am working, I hardly eat something good. There was a time when I used to work whole days and night, eating just chips and tea/coffee. No not because I had money issues, but because I didn't feel like eating.

Commitment phobic: The biggest reason why I have been single my whole life, apart from those pesky relationship which didn't even lasted a month. Because firstly I don't like commitments or giving time to people. Like texting someone because they want me to, doesn't happen with me. Or calling someone daily, talking for hours, telling them where I am, with whom and all those things. I just can't. I try to convince myself, it is okay to have this damn care behaviour, but I think later in my life, I will regret it.

Originally posted by: bollyqueen0

Absolutely nothing. I'm perfect. It shocks me daily how I was born this way.

Then we need to build a Mandir for you. ❤️

Sorry, wrong post.

Skipping meals : I have always been skinny (super metabolism apparently n before anyone starts saying I'm lucky let's make it clear, just don't ). Putting on weight takes a lot of effort for me. It's a chore. Ghar pe it was still okay coz you know parents force feed you even if you have no time. But I live alone right now n when I'm super deep into my work, I get so engrossed that I skip meals. Calls/meetings take up my mornings, so no breakfast n then I straight away have lunch at 5 some times, just because it's easy for me to stay hungry. It's not deliberate but just something that has always been the case.

So whatever weight I manage to put on by exercising and getting on a diet for weeks(yes you do that to gain weight as well) goes down in a matter of a couple of days and I'm back to square one.

The WFH has contributed a lot to this bad habit of mine, atleast when I was going to office and gym, I would have meals with my colleagues so I was following my schedule. But ab toh just getting myself out of this horrible habit is an everyday task. More often than not, lazyness wins.