"Especially as the diet has made you leave out stuff you enjoy eating."
Damn you apsu. I have not eaten normal sweets in 4+(?) weeks. I thought that replacing them with a bit of honey would be a good idea. But even after all this time cravings for ice cream or chocolate still didn't disappear.
About posting. I am more dissapointed not in my payouts. They are slowly growing. Having few more cents is still better than not having those cents and I do not expect to buy a ferrari or yachts any time soon. I am sure that bigger users are working just as as hard or harder than I am. They deserve much more money than they are getting. what really makes me sad is that my blog seems to be dead in comments. Sometimes someone says "this is geat art"I check their comment history and I see that they just made exact same comment to 20+ other people. Perhaps this is entitlement speaking but after spending maybe a few hundreds hours on a piece I hope to spark something in my viewers. I don't expect to be praised all the time. If people dislike something about my works they should still say so. That would be so much better and more genuine.
I seems I made a rant as well. oh well whatever.
Well they do say at one point, you'll be craving the sweets less and less. But honey cannot really replace them. It's not the same at all.
However the good thing is that after a long pause if you eat sweets, you'll start to feel icky quite fast, at least in some cases. In best case scenario, it'll help manage to reduce all kinds of sweets and such on a long run even if you don't quit them in total.
I'm glad your payouts are slowly growing. I'm at a point I'm not taking much stress about payouts, because I'm having a secret hope Steem price will jump to at least $10 and then the current Steem amount owned by me is already quite nice. Well it could always be nicer, but still!
The lack of interaction is however depressing as most know. I'm lucky not to get that much spam comments, but I do really know what you mean with the "this is geat art"-comments. It's not that we're looking for compliments and such but discussion, interactions and something which points out to people that they might care.