I've come to a conclusion...

I hate food. Well, ok. It's not food I hate. It's eating. There's so much more I could be doing when I have to take the time to eat. Also, every time I do eat, I can't help but think it's making me fatter than I already am, even though I know that too few calories is just as detrimental as too many. Anybody else experienced this?

I agree - taking time out to get meals in and carry them around to work is a burden. Especially in a busy NYC hospital.

So i just fast 20 hours a day and eat all my calories when I get home. Problem solved!

*Edit: typo

Food is okay, it's important to live I'd rather it taste good then like crap ... but my life doesn't revolve around it. Well maybe right now since I'm trying to make sure I hit all my macros ...

I dont feel this way about food, but I do about showering… I'm no dirt girl, but I find it to be such a waste of valuable sleeping time...

Ditto! You are not alone.

I hate food. Well, ok. It's not food I hate. It's eating. There's so much more I could be doing when I have to take the time to eat. Also, every time I do eat, I can't help but think it's making me fatter than I already am, even though I know that too few calories is just as detrimental as too many. Anybody else experienced this?

No. I can't say that I have ever thought that eating food is a waste of time. :huh: :drinker: I have always thought it was a GREAT use of my time. That's why I had to lose so much weight.

I work from home so I have no excuses LOL. I ***** about preparing meals from home and yet you guys struggling to get into the habits of preparing them and carrying them. I have nothing to say but for the most part I actually prepare my meals as if I were going to pack em.

i love food. and now that i'm eating healthy, nutritious food, i find i love it even more. i'm also able to tell when i'm full these days. i didn't used to be able to do that. My mindset was, to quote Louis C.K. "the meal isn't over when i'm full, the meal is over when i hate myself."

i love the whole experience with a meal. the sight, the smell, the taste. the preparing, the cooking. everything.

Yeah no never felt that way.

I love food. I just hate how much it rules my life.

Start fasting longer and prepare meals ahead of time.

Food is okay, it's important to live I'd rather it taste good then like crap ... but my life doesn't revolve around it. Well maybe right now since I'm trying to make sure I hit all my macros ...

It gets easier as you do it more. Counting macros is a better method than calories.

I dont feel this way about food, but I do about showering

This is how I feel about making my bed.

^^^ ahuh, I was just thinking this today when I was making my lunch & thinking about what I can have for dinner tonight, breakfast tomorrow etc etc etc

I eat the same things every day, at the same time, in the same order. My physical transformation as a science experiment is more exciting. But Im neurotic. lol

Next time we think about how much time food takes up we could realise how lucky we are we don't have to grow/raise/hunt for everything we eat as well as cook and eat it!

For me, having to grow/raise/hunt my food would be more fun. Put some excitement and adventure into eating

I used to feel this same way. Eating, cooking, cleaning up afterwards, what a total waste of time. Let's not even talk about having to decide what to eat in the first place. Most of the time I didn't eat. Helps explain why I weighed 89 pounds at 5'2". (well.... some of the reasons, anyway...) Hypoglycemia was a daily occurrence. I lived on cheese and whole wheat bread.

Right now I am 122 pounds and 35% body fat. The downside of weighing 89 pounds for a decade and then gaining lots of weight without exercising at all and having a lot of stress. But I digress.

I eat mostly the same every day. I know what it takes to hit my macros and there are few changes. This makes it easy to purchase and prep food in advance. If a change is made, it will be something that I am eating for the week. Last week I made rice, so all week dinner was salmon with broccoli and 1/2 cup of rice. Next week rice will exchange for baked sweet potatoes, broccoli will be changed out for frozen peas. Turkey instead of salmon.

Over the summer my protein shake has been made with bananas and strawberries. It is now peach season, so this last two weeks I have been making it with peaches. Peaches will be gone in three days and I will go to something else.

Simplicity. Hope this helps.

I hate food. Well, ok. It's not food I hate. It's eating. There's so much more I could be doing when I have to take the time to eat.

Look into intermittent fasting where you eat all of your calories in a smaller period of time.

Also, every time I do eat, I can't help but think it's making me fatter than I already am, even though I know that too few calories is just as detrimental as too many. Anybody else experienced this?

This is a mental block that you must get past to be healthy. Check out http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12. This gives a great explanation on why eating enough is healthy and necessary. "Great bodies are built in the kitchen and while we sleep! Everything else is secondary."

My whole identity is in my food. I pride myself in making wonderful soups and stews and other things. The very process of chopping (yes, I do it by hand, not a food processer) is cathartic, calming. I generally make fairly low calorie meals ... except I'm absolutely hooked on beef at least once a week. Now, I'm looking at the real calories of it all... and realizing that even in my "small snacks" I was mowing down great numbers of calories.

I love to eat good tasty, interesting foods. I just need to look at them differently now. WW didn't work. There was too much fudge room. This is calories in, calories out. For those who eat all their food at once ... your body isn't getting fuel to work all day. Kinda like running an engine on empty. I'm a diabetic and I couldn't do that if I wanted to.

I just want MFP to give me the visuals and occasional emotional "atta-babies" that I need. I know I'm still going to cook, and I'm still gong to eat ... but I'll be darned if I'm going to continue to balloon upwards into "fat old lady" status. I want to get back to (approximately) where I was in my 30s. A healthy, maintainable weight. These posts are great. Keep 'em coming.