I just ate almost half a container of onion dip with blue corn chips. This is after I ate about 18 chocolate kisses and a three course dinner (I'm only 5'4"). I wonder if I'm the only one out there doing stuff like this. Do you men ever eat compulsively and feel bad afterwards? Or is it just a female thing?
Zeno Swijtink
12-21-2007, 10:35 AM
I just ate almost half a container of onion dip with blue corn chips. This is after I ate about 18 chocolate kisses and a three course dinner (I'm only 5'4"). I wonder if I'm the only one out there doing stuff like this. Do you men ever eat compulsively and feel bad afterwards? Or is it just a female thing?
5'4": is that your waist?? :eek:
Barry
12-21-2007, 01:04 PM
Do you men ever eat compulsively and feel bad afterwards? Or is it just a female thing?I do! But then again I have a strong feminine side! For quite a while I'd sit down with the Bohemian and a half gallon of ice cream and eat about half or more of it. I'm controlling it these days by not reading the Bohemian! Also once I open a bag of Trader Joe's Soy/Flax chips it hard not to finish it! Peanuts are another (too) favorite... I'm getting better at remembering that I don't feel so good afterwards so I'm generally stopping before I really O.D.
Dark Shadows
12-22-2007, 12:10 AM
I can go almost all day without eating, then attack the refridgerator for everything it's got. Even the olives from the picnic I had over the summer. I think that its this oral fixation, like biting your fingernails (which I did as a child) and smoking (which I did in my twenties). Sometimes I still feel like having a cigarette, just smelling it on someone's breath. I know they've had a cigarette, and I want one too! But I don't do it, cause I know it will make me lightheaded and give me a headache, and cancer in the end I guess. But there is nothing like that first rush you get when you inhale. It's almost enough to make me spend five bucks for a pack of Marlboroughs. Do they even sell those anymore?
Okay, I gotta stop thinking about this. I am sitting at HoJO's wishing I had those olives and not wanting to got out to my van in my PJ's. I have a jar of peanut butter in the front seat. Is it worth going out in the 25 degree night in my pink flowered PJ's, in public? Such a dilemma!
And no, 5'4" is not my waist measurement, yet!
I do! But then again I have a strong feminine side! For quite a while I'd sit down with the Bohemian and a half gallon of ice cream and eat about half or more of it. I'm controlling it these days by not reading the Bohemian! Also once I open a bag of Trader Joe's Soy/Flax chips it hard not to finish it! Peanuts are another (too) favorite... I'm getting better at remembering that I don't feel so good afterwards so I'm generally stopping before I really O.D.
Zeno Swijtink
12-26-2007, 08:44 PM
I can go almost all day without eating, then attack the refrigerator for everything it's got. Even the olives from the picnic I had over the summer. I think that its this oral fixation, like biting your fingernails (which I did as a child) and smoking (which I did in my twenties). Sometimes I still feel like having a cigarette, just smelling it on someone's breath. (...)
Okay, I gotta stop thinking about this. I am sitting at HoJO's wishing I had those olives and not wanting to got out to my van in my PJ's. I have a jar of peanut butter in the front seat. Is it worth going out in the 25 degree night in my pink flowered PJ's, in public? Such a dilemma!
Last summer, when I had my radiation and chemo treatment for tonsil cancer, I had to feed myself thru a tube directly into my stomach. My throat was in flames.
Suddenly eating was reduced to a very minimal act, often done in front of the bathroom mirror. It was amazing to experience firsthand how cultural an act eating is.
But there was also a fear that slowly I would change into a body composed of the corn based liquid I was pouring in my stomach every three hours. "Der Mensch ist, was er isst" as Ludwig Feuerbach said. (People are not souls living on a higher plane, but are food transformed in a physical bodies, are gore, pus, flesh, blood.)
If you read Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma (https://www.michaelpollan.com/)" you'll see how much of the food from your fridge is corn, in some disguise or other.
It is still how controversial how bad high-fructose corn syrup is for you (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/business/yourmoney/02syrup.html) but it is certainly a way of concentrating a lot of calories in little food. And oddly, the way the subsidies of the Farm Bill work, processed food with most high-fructose corn syrup is cheapest calorie-by-calorie. According to research cited by Pollan, in a NYT essay from last April (https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html), a dollar can buy 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips but only 250 calories of carrots.
"Our Decrepit Food Factories" is another recent essay by Pollan (https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16wwln-lede-t.html).