I joked that one of the reasons I broke in 2015 was because I was eating McDonald’s too often for breakfast.
And I started eating it pretty frequently recently also.
(As I’m breaking again.)
Then I went a week without going, and it kind of became a joke that I was doing better. A not very funny, trying to look on the brightest side of things joke.
What was missed was I didn’t eat breakfast at all that week.
I ate breakfast foods, but not at breakfast times.
And although I am all for being willing to fast for periods of time (and I think it is beneficial to health), doing so daily for a week or more without intentionally setting out to do so is actually damaging.
Which means that McDonald’s is a symptom, rather than a cause.
It is a bridge to try to cover the individual basics that are not being handled well, while still trying to handle the basics.
Because the other option is to ignore them entirely.
And willful (or not willful, but acknowledged non-intentional) omittance is worse than just trying to bridge, when the little things that could be ignored (food, for example) have major impacts if they are.