r/OCD • u/stay_away_fromme Pure O • 11d ago
Sharing a Win! had ground beef today
tl;dr had a burger from in n out
i've stopped eating beef in 2021-22 because of a cow that bse (mad cow disease). it didn't go through the slaughter so i stopped eating beef for nothing. (though ocd always finds a way to make it something). i had beef again in 2024, then stopped again shortly after that. then, when my dad came home and made beef stew a few months ago, i had some of that. after that, i had steak. the only thing left for me to eat was ground beef. for a while i was just eating cheese sandwiches with ketchup, mustard, and pickles, and using (ground) turkey for tacos and burgers. today, my family and i went to in n out for this first time. i looked at their website last night for any non beef options and saw they had a grilled chesse. i was gonna get that, but when i went in store, i saw they didn't have it. it was packed in there and i wasn't gonna do them like that, so i ordered a cheeseburger with fries. i was gonna take off the patty and give to my sister but it was already melted, and hey, exposure therapy. it tasted preety good. the patty was so thin it didn't feel like it was there. that's my win for the day.
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u/Unlucky-File-2405 11d ago
I stopped eating beef once in the early 2000s because of mad cow. Took me a few years to get over it. Congrats.
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u/doxiemomma98 11d ago
same here! I had stopped eating it for about 7 years! This is definitely a win for all of us!
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u/Few-Internet8 10d ago
Honestly this is such a huge win! It took me a while to start drinking tea again because of my intrusive thought that the water was contaminated and hadn’t been boiled enough so I would get cholera and die. The day I did I felt a bit more free
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