OMG I LOVE FOOD

Josalinn

I love food too. I try to keep it out of sight out of mind. Also, I eat only in the kitchen (or at my desk at work because its a small office with no lunch room. Seriously its me and my boss). Finally I look at said proffered food and determine if it is worth eating. Was it store bought or homemade? If store bought I will politely decline, if it is homemade I'll take a small piece. Home made stuff takes more effort than store bought. Is it something new that I've never had or something that I don't generally like but prepared in a new way? I will try it. This is for my own self improvement. I try almost everything. Am I hungry or am I bored? If I am hungry I eat, If I am bored I look for something to do and drink some water, or tea.

_lyndseybrooke_

I also love good, and have an unhealthy relationship with food. I could eat all day if I let myself, and I certainly don't have to be hungry to eat. I never understand those people that skip meals or "forget" to eat - how the hell?! And let me tell you, I'm only 140 lbs but I can put food away. If you saw me on a day that I'm not counting calories, you'd probably wonder how I'm not 500 lbs. I could eat an entire bloomin' onion from Outback by myself and still eat my actual meal. I can scarf down an entire bag of chips or hershey kisses in one sitting. I can out-eat my husband at any restaurant.

The way I control it is by being a little lax on weekends. I try to remain under my calorie goal for the weekly average, and I make sure to still count calories to keep myself in check, but if I want some Chinese food or something, I'm going to eat it. I stay on track all week, usually just go a little over on Saturday but mostly alright, and then Sunday is my refeed day. It helps me keep my sanity, but I'm not going over my weekly goal, so it's alright and I'm not completely sabotaging all the work I did during the week.

Whatever works for you!

I absolutely can't stand the phrase, "eat to live, don't live to eat." Ugh...it's a skinny people saying for sure. You know what, I eat to live AND sometimes I live to eat. Food is good and I enjoy eating it, so I'm going to. I don't believe in depriving myself of everything i like for the sake of being thin. If I need to lose weight slowly in order to still treat myself sometimes, I'm okay with that.

That's rather rude. Learning to have a healthy relationship with food has nothing to do with 'skinny people'. There's really nothing wrong with making a conscious choice to occasionally let loose and consume a large amount of calories. If your overall life has a healthy balance in it, that's perfectly fine. You're not going to gain weight overall by doing that one time. The problem comes when that behavior happens on a daily basis. Learning to enjoy a few tastes of the food you love rather than mass quantities of it is really the key. Do you get more satisfaction out of eating the entire blooming onion as you do out of eating a few bites of it?

Yes, I do. That's why I eat it all.

And it wasn't meant to be rude, so don't take offense when there's none to be taken. We all have our catchphrases and sayings that we find annoying. My "skinny people" comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. It's just a saying I can't stand, like "give it 110%" or "think outside the box" (there. is. no. box.).

No need to be overly sensitive. I envy people that only "eat to live" - I still hate the saying, though, especially when it's given as advice. It's not advice.

invisibubble

I adore food. I spend time trying to find healthier ways of doing things so I can have freedom. I don't always succeed in either freedom or satisfaction, but the balance is pretty good, considering.

Iwishyouwell

"Loving" food is what got my *kitten* obese in the first place.

So I broke up with food. We're great friends now, we have the best relationship we've ever had, but the "love" is gone.