"You can’t have excuses and results at the same time." So true! Love Chef AJ
@Cincinnatimatti
Жыл бұрын
Wisdom
@nimimerkillinen
Жыл бұрын
bit of a hyperbole
@SusanaXpeace2u
Жыл бұрын
Abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. Wow. That is so true.
@UXtatic
Жыл бұрын
Yup.
@funUrth4all
19 күн бұрын
Profound huh ❤
@katelynduncan6897
Жыл бұрын
This is exactly me with sweets. Right now I’ve gone 7 months without having it but everyday I think about what I’ll eat to reward myself. I keep pushing it off because I feel like if I eat just one sweet it’ll all be over for me. I won’t be able to stop. Abstinence is easier in the end.
@butch843
Жыл бұрын
I gradually moderated my alcohol use with longer and longer fasts until I eventually gave it up altogether. Been sober like 7 years i think.
@kimik01889
9 ай бұрын
Awesome!!🎉🎉🎉
@jgrysiak6566
5 ай бұрын
My alcoholic college friend puts ice in his beer & thinks he's drinking now in moderation! Lmao
@denisemaryheatherington5820
Жыл бұрын
If addicts could moderate they wouldn't be addicts
@bensolo2000
Жыл бұрын
That's not true, that's not how it works at all
@smallfootprint2961
4 ай бұрын
Exactly.
@minettaoliver7262
Жыл бұрын
Right on right on right on!!! It took me years and years to not just understand this but to admit to it. SOOOO glad I did. I can’t use anything in moderation. I know this about myself. So, I use nothing.
@susansuchenharris3727
Жыл бұрын
She is so modest in her makeup. She is highly intelligent and down to earth. I enjoy her so much.
@goodintentions1302
Жыл бұрын
I can enjoy what she says, yet her eyebrows have me disagreeing with you regarding her makeup.
@SB-fk8fm
Жыл бұрын
One drink is too many and a thousand is not enough.
@anneseierstad5702
Жыл бұрын
So true. Also, Saint Augustine was born in the year 354!
@angryrabbit8417
Жыл бұрын
I needed to hear this today ❤❤❤
@heyu123
Жыл бұрын
Me trying to abstain from Ice cream and having a whole pint while watching this short 😅
@JJNow-gg9so
Жыл бұрын
Smiles....😂...
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
You are stronger than me, because I can't focus on what is being said for thinking about the ice cream.
@anitavirginillo
Жыл бұрын
If people followed the process involved in cheese making they would 100% never eat it. It is not only inherently cruel, but also disgusting.
@ticketyboo6435
Жыл бұрын
Where is your cheese made because here in Scotland Cheese process is neither disgusting or cruel
@barbaraseiler9750
Жыл бұрын
no its not. but ok, I live in fact in France, that's real cheese here.
@live4avocados616
5 ай бұрын
🎉 You can’t have both excuses & results at the same time. 🎉
@madamplant
Жыл бұрын
I love this woman❤
@wifeofkhan9375
4 ай бұрын
Preach it Chef AJ!! 🙌
@peggytatum4962
Ай бұрын
CJ is so wise and wonderful.
@termita358
Жыл бұрын
That excuse is funny as hell.. 😂😂😂😂. I will start using it. 😂😂😂
@alvinstreicker4579
Жыл бұрын
Seriously this is a perfect video.... it doesnt take much to be an addict or have a poor habit..... we think we know something and thenwe ALLOW someone to shed a different light or new way to see by. Please keep them coming
@Chiroman527
Жыл бұрын
Chef AJ just made me realize that I am Addicted to Cheese. I eat too much of it, almost everyday. Lunchtime or as a PM snack with crackers. All addictions commence as Habits, good and bad. I have an "additive personality" always did. I'm a 71 YO retired man who has suffered and continues to suffer with anxiety disorders. Even today, If you give me a roll of LifeSavers for instance, I don't take one or two, I consume the entire roll within minutes, popping one as soon as I finish the other! Is it the Sugar { although I do the same with Breathsavers which are sugar free)? Is it the desire / need to suck on a mint (Oral Fixation they call it)? I have to make a specific point to limit my intake. I started the same "addiction" to Tic Tacs. Started to have them in my car some years ago, and then found myself consuming Tic Tacs within a few minutes of smoking a cigarette (the worst Addiction known to Mankind) , then lighting another cigarette 20 minutes later - then round and round until I arrived at my destination (work or Home). I have to agree with this assessment that There is No Moderation with Addicts. That statement violates the Old Adage ....." Everything In Moderation". It is a complicated topioc for sure.
@Dang_Lin-Wang
Жыл бұрын
What sort of cheese are you eating? Buy the good stuff like aged Gouda or raw milk Roquefort so you're getting all your vit k2 which will help your vascular health. Food is medicine..
@10nicolem
Жыл бұрын
I’m a sober alcoholic and agree with this to a point. But cheese? Who is eating cheese to the point where they are blacked out, throwing up, forgetting what they said or did and ruining their life and the lives of those around them?
@kimik01889
9 ай бұрын
If you eat a "trigger" food, it will pull you off your healthy eating. I'm addicted to ice cream and EVERY TIME I have it for a "cheat meal", it ruins all of my hard work and progress. And it turns into a binge of eating EVERYTHING 😅😅
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
@@kimik01889 AND FEELING EMOTIONALLY AWFUL FOR DAYS AFTERWARDS.
@slothape
2 ай бұрын
Check out your local cheese anonymous meetings
@smallfootprint2961
2 ай бұрын
Me!
@kimby4404
2 ай бұрын
Addict here. 1st it was sugar, then alcohol, pills, "natural " products like kava & kratom. Finally breaking free! Thanks Chef AJ. Learning ao much from you! So thankful I found plant based eating. No more problems ❤
@BabsW-k7b
19 күн бұрын
Chef AJ is the best in her class
@Chris-gm4hk
Жыл бұрын
Moderation just makes you a permanent addict.
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!!
@cesarq6011
Жыл бұрын
Every weed user is hardcore addicted it blows my mind that they still can’t admit it.
@MourningRoutine
Жыл бұрын
Sure buddy.
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
You are speaking the truth. I grew up in NYC and when my peers were smoking weed back in the 60s and 70s, I said the same thing and they swore it wasn't addicitve, they could stop at anytime and on and on. Over the years they went on to smoking more and harder drugs. Many died (albeit other things) but none ever smoked less weed. Fast forward to 2024, for those that are still standing, if they can breath I don't see the great wonders weed did for them and they smoked the real deal back then, not this synthetic crap they do today.
@jennyanderson4796
Жыл бұрын
A cashier this afternoon could read me like a book
@carrieknoth4346
Жыл бұрын
Love it. I'm an addict, I so get it.
@Mylesluvs80085
Жыл бұрын
That's a quote from Allen Carrs Easy way. She just changed the word cigarettes for cheese
@Trulaella
Жыл бұрын
And St. Augustine was a scoundrel! So he knew what he was talking about - he’s the one who said “Lord make me pure, but not yet”
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
Thanks that is all I needed to know!!!!
@patriciaodonnell4239
Ай бұрын
Write that book Chef AJ!!!!
@vihee5526
6 ай бұрын
Excellent points!
@godcorrodedgod
Жыл бұрын
It is absolutley true for me about alcohol.
@smallfootprint2961
4 ай бұрын
Abstinence is your friend. Just don't pick it up... do whatever it takes to not take that first bite.
@kimberlysleets2947
25 күн бұрын
Thanks, chef Aj my addiction is cheese pizza so I have to learn not to have it at all if I have a pizza slice . I will make my own pizza and sauces with ingredients from your book.
@charlesking3384
Жыл бұрын
It’s incredible to hear somebody tell the truth this day and age….
@sheryl.sst1537
Жыл бұрын
This is definitely 💯 true.
@silviabors
Жыл бұрын
So true for me. I can not do moderation on carbs. Or all, or nothing.
@zeynand4039
Жыл бұрын
Abstinence is way easier for me. I could have 100 gram bar of dark super chocolate and I still eat half of the bar before ei decide to stop and then finish the whole bar anyway and then I'm lucky it was only a 100 grams of 75%dark chocolate. Ssme goes for cheese, I'll take a piece and the salt makes me want more. Not having thes products at home also don't make me run to the supermarket for it so there is something to abstinence that helps me and doesn't make my heart grow fonder for those foods lol.
@karareynolds772
9 ай бұрын
I'm exactly the same. Chocolate and cheese are my addictions
@Dangeresque_2
Жыл бұрын
The cheese addiction thing is based on a study where they injected cheese into the brains of rats. So it’s not the same as a drug that crosses the blood brain barrier. Food doesn’t often do that. Food addiction is real but it’s more about the way food impacts your system and helps regulate and numb emotions, so that’s what you become addicted to.
@scienceislove2014
Ай бұрын
Moderation has never worked for me either...
@Betterialist
Жыл бұрын
I recently discovered that i cannot stick to caloric limit in the diet. Eating 1700/1800 kcal a day is a punishment for me. So i discovered that i can fast for a whole day (36 h, not 24), and the next day enjoy my food freely, it gives me an average of lower calories still keeping the pleasure of eating. Moderation indeed is not for everyone
@btf1287
Жыл бұрын
religions always taught us that removing oneself from temptation is more effective than resisting temptation. But I guess we dont need religion now.
@GarethJohnson
Жыл бұрын
Lmao Augustine was 4th century. I mean, you can be off a bit, but to be way over a thousand years out is....lol....
@heatherl8063
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think the year or the century was the point. St. Augustine’s words she referred to still ring true throughout the ages.
@lGalaxisl
Жыл бұрын
I'm already happy that a quote from a saint is being used to illustrate a point. You can't expect everyone to know the things we know.
@l-train7876
Жыл бұрын
Oh god, go away.
@SusanaXpeace2u
Жыл бұрын
The quote still hit me though
@GarethJohnson
Жыл бұрын
@@l-train7876 If you're going to quote someone when you are representing yourself as an authority on a subject matter and co-opting it into your argument, you have to at least know something about the person you are quoting and understand whether there is context to it or not. Otherwise it's a cheap soundbite and it undermines your authority, right? That's actually how it works in the real world and has done for centuries. What if she'd said "To quote Buddha from the 18th century?" It's that degree of error. And by the way, an opinion is an opinion, if you don't like it, answer it with substance, not by bleeting.
@TheSchmidt62
Жыл бұрын
Cool! I didn’t know Chef AJ was on a podcast
@Dargotsauce
10 ай бұрын
That’s why I ate a whole pizza on my last day before truly going vegan 😂
@dannykay3598
8 ай бұрын
Thank you!!!
@francevenezia
Жыл бұрын
"Abstinence is better than 'perfect moderation'." St. Augustine Because "perfect moderation" is impossible to define.
@Q_Rated
Жыл бұрын
That is why I feel sorry for food addicts
@MelanieSakowski
Жыл бұрын
I don’t agree. I believe that it’s quite possible to integrate the dismembered physical parts of ourselves (which drive addictive programming) into our conscious awareness in order to have volition in our choices. Important point: as addiction is defined as “something that we repeatedly engage in, despite knowing the negative consequences.” Someone who is addicted via an eating disorder, or codependency- it’s not possible to survive life by abstaining from food, or relationships for that matter.
@Xsynth
Жыл бұрын
This is a great point!
@heatherl8063
Жыл бұрын
Chef AJ suggests abstaining from processed foods, the unhealthy stuff. She doesn’t suggest that people abstain from food entirely. People don’t become addicted to healthy foods, your body tells you to stop eating those when you have had enough. It’s the unhealthy foods that people become addicted to and overeat. I think it would be the same with relationships. We need healthy relationships. But we would have a much better life if we abstain from unhealthy relationships. 😊
@MelanieSakowski
Жыл бұрын
Mmmm I beg to differ regarding the nature of addiction, for example: orthorexia (obsession with food rules). I don’t believe that addiction is dichotomous to solely any one thing isolatable in and of itself. Similarly, any relationship could become addictive in a codependent tendency whereby one’s needs continually aren’t self-met, so that person seeks completion dependent upon someone else. It’s the root of addiction that’s where deep healing has an ask: and when it no longer needs to be filled as a hungry ghost, then nothing outside of the person has power over them.
@heatherl8063
Жыл бұрын
@@MelanieSakowski My experiences and observations of addiction haven’t been about ‘a hungry ghost’ kind of need. Instead it has been about dopamine levels, and the desire for higher dopamine levels. Those kinds of addictions can be about a literal single thing. Examples: meth, gambling, pornography, processed foods, a person you are in an unhealthy relationship, etc. Even orthorexia can be broken down into healthy rules about eating and unhealthy rules about eating. Not all rules about eating are bad, unhealthy, or addictive. Not every rule about what you should or shouldn’t eat messes with your dopamine levels. When your rules about eating do cause problems with your dopamine levels, well then those eating rules can become an addiction.
@ivon_x
Жыл бұрын
Someone seems to be addicted to verbosity 😒
@domthagreenthumb8175
Жыл бұрын
Dude, I love cheese so much. Lol
@codykoplin5337
Жыл бұрын
Everyone does that's the whole point. 😂
@ana419
Жыл бұрын
Maybe that is true for addicts and their source of addiction, but not for everyone. Moderation in everything is the key to a healthy, balanced life and should never be discredited, but encouraged.
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
Moderation with certain foods is too much of a struggle for me. Abstinence is easier, I don''t have to think about it because it's already decided.
@00Recoil
Жыл бұрын
St Augustine lived around AD 400.
@Hammett175
Жыл бұрын
Great quote, not sure it was St. Augustine, but he was from the 3rd Century...
@na-zu2ey
Ай бұрын
It's better to learn moderation. Saying it never works is not only untrue, but is an excuse. You do not have to remain "an addict." Self-control is a thing.
@sheri8048
Ай бұрын
Are you an experienced addict or just sharing your wise advice?
@na-zu2ey
Ай бұрын
@@sheri8048 Both. I know from experience that a person can be just as determined to practice moderation as abstinence. And the truth is that with some things moderation is the healthier choice. What a lie that moderation never works!
@mylaisms7908
Жыл бұрын
she says this as i slice my 2nd piece of unexpected cheddar cheese lol 😂
@nid3126
Жыл бұрын
as a person who addicted by sugar, I agree
@tommythompson7941
Жыл бұрын
Saints and Catholicism...saving the Earth from its self since Zero Anno Domini. A tamed and educated Earth is a gift to all mankind. Thank you Saint Augustine. Thank you my Jesus.
@patravinci
Жыл бұрын
What if you’re addicted to food? Do you have any choice but moderation?
@astridmanzo
Жыл бұрын
Have the cheese when you go to France 🤷🏻♀️
@mokshalani8414
Жыл бұрын
If you aren't going there anyway, what's the harm lol
@Lime1958
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. 👏
@barbaraseiler9750
Жыл бұрын
so it gets just extra hard if people are addicted to things that can not be stopped entirely. food, work, cleaning....
@elioazar5103
Жыл бұрын
St Augustine was in the 4th century...
@geraldine7101
Жыл бұрын
Amen❤
@MattBelles
Жыл бұрын
Amen!
@brunoassuncion
Жыл бұрын
Saint Augustine lived in the 4th century
@YOULOOTWESHOOT101
Жыл бұрын
Fact !!
@karelklos5483
Жыл бұрын
As someone who used to drink significant amounts of alcohol everyday and now just occasionally drinks socially, I would say this is not true. Moderation is not easy, and abstinence is probably easier, but moderation is definitely not impossible.
@nimimerkillinen
Жыл бұрын
she said perfect moderation is harder
@dustyburhans1600
Жыл бұрын
Watch out for that cheese 🧀
@nimimerkillinen
Жыл бұрын
im checking to cheese rehab today
@tamivega6225
Жыл бұрын
Hey. Isn't that the lady that was on Ceaser Millan's program. Now she's a therapist?
@rivertjr6501
Жыл бұрын
Why is quitting KZitem harder for me than quitting a five year weed dependency smoking all day or even quitting nicotine which is supposedly the hardest thing to quit
@peequod
Жыл бұрын
St. Augustine of Hippo lived from 354-420 AD, not the 16th or 17th Centuries.
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
okay, an error, I still am a food addict that can't do moderation.
@user-dk2mo1mo6y
Жыл бұрын
It goes for you and all that what you do and everyone else. Oh dear you
@MobiusCoin
Жыл бұрын
It's way easier to be abstinent than have a moderate amount of sex
@deannahoward5529
Жыл бұрын
That is fax I have to cohere to a strict whole 30 diet in order to maintang a reasonable quality of life because I have so many physical. Issues that are unexplained by doctors all. I know is that I do better when I stay strictly to the whole 30 and when I deviate. I suffer hard even if it's just a little bit.
@funUrth4all
19 күн бұрын
Addict from addicts. Too until age 40 to finally get it.
@camwhitman5425
Жыл бұрын
There’s nothing like a slice of 12 year aged Wisconsin cheddar. It really lights up the brain on a good positive way, not a troublesome, addictive way.
@aldodieterrodriguez9710
Жыл бұрын
Truth
@evesimson5025
Жыл бұрын
This is why being addicted to food fucking sucks. Abstinence does not really work if you still want to live.
@yajy4501
Жыл бұрын
It’s not true that it never works. It’s just that it only does less than 1% of the time. Everyone wants to think they’re in that fraction of a percent who can pull it off. It’s better just to assume you’re not.
@ChestyStClair
Жыл бұрын
My struggle is cheese. Now I know why. And I don't need to go to France...I leave here.🇨🇵
@AppenzellerX
Жыл бұрын
So true
@superdeluxesmell
Жыл бұрын
St Augustine died in the year 430.
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
noone cares
@antionettekidd9749
Жыл бұрын
True
@stevenburrito7032
Жыл бұрын
Saint Augustine was a Roman citizen lol. 17th century come on man
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
no one care, he did enough destruction with the religion.
@bevw611
Жыл бұрын
Not to be picky about what was said but….I have celiac and I’d rather die than ever go back to Paris. To me -Paris is all about the architecture and most importantly food. Even their eggs are somehow better, but eggs with the cheese?!. I’d rather never see a gorgeous building again than have to be around the street vendors who sell crepes and every other store selling bread that you tastes like heaven on earth. I know it’s not the point of this video. Sometimes I don’t shut my mouth! Lol! Except for eating food I want to🙁
@LunarFrequenciesHD
Жыл бұрын
I love cheese. I feel like I have my brie consumption under control, there were times, I did not!
@helenmurray3276
11 ай бұрын
St Augustine is from 4th century.
@meggrotte4760
Жыл бұрын
At augustine was correct he starved in addiction it dies
@ananavarrete7218
Жыл бұрын
My girl ❤
@patrickmcadams31
Жыл бұрын
Cheese? Yes!!
@Peculiarities
Жыл бұрын
Funny, I think abstinence is so fraught given its religious context. It’s often used to suppress non-marital sex so people have a negative association to it because of how it’s been weaponized by the Christian morality police. But in some contexts, is it just true? And it’s okay if it’s true or best to abstain.
@chrispark7010
Жыл бұрын
who is this 17th-century St. Augustine? cause the ones I know of are from the 4th and 7th century CE. Lovely to see people pulling quotes out of their asses.
@debbieleavesley2537
Жыл бұрын
Chef AJ is ageing fast she needs to be carnivore ❤
@joyce2784
Жыл бұрын
This cannot be true. What of those addicted to food? They will eventually learn moderation or die. It can be done, but we’ll do anything to never have master self control and discipline. We’ll even claim “IT CANNOT BE DONE.”
@kimik01889
9 ай бұрын
You don't sound like you understand. But what does it matter to you if it works for some other people? Why do you care if some people aren't eating cheese?😂😂
@skippy6462
Жыл бұрын
What episode is this please?
@trudibarraclough478
Жыл бұрын
Thats why people are overweight, it moderation of addictive eating.
@eliasmodernell3348
Жыл бұрын
My god cheese is great food!
@EyreEver
Жыл бұрын
4th century.
@rahulmalik1083
Жыл бұрын
What about a smartphone addiction? I am really struggling.
@Chiroman527
Жыл бұрын
Smartphone Addiction is a THING ! Put it down.
@ericm9495
Жыл бұрын
Just fyi she's WAY off on Augustine dates. He was 354-430. the more you know. source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
@silviasuppo6450
Жыл бұрын
Yes, so off that I had to check in case there was another one I was unaware of!
@pjj.5649
5 ай бұрын
who cares, I wasn't going to look up St. Augustine while I polished off this pint of ice ice cream and this bag of potato chips.
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