Overeating is mental.

Yummy!

Kind of. Part of us over-eating is what our bodies have been trained to believe is a "normal portion." We've grown up with piled-high plates, supersized meals, and deliberately misleading marketing (to us... our parents... our educators). The war continues with these new "healthy" and/or "super" foods.

The fact is that we live in a strange time.

For most of our species's existence, we had a shortage of calories... so our bodies optimized themselves for packing away calories when it could get it. Now, calories are cheap as it gets... but our bodies haven't had the time to adapt.

TL;DR: Hunger is physiological; getting fat is an evolutionary coup de gras; choosing to manage our consumption is mental; marketing screwed us over

fuel/energy/carbs

Happiness

Eating.

Joy. And I consider myself lucky to associate it as such. Considering I have to do it everyday, often multiple times.

Oh damm, do I have to cook again?

I like how you synthesized and evaluated this writing prompt.

When I think of food some words that come to mind are:
Orgasmic
delicious
yummy
mmm!

After reading your post I realized that most of my thoughts if not all sound like words from the marketing lexicon of advertising. I feel like my brain has been branded to associate food with something that it was never meant to be instead of nourishment. Ironic that nourishment is one of the words that does not pop into my mind when someone mentions food...darn those food commercials.

It's not commercials or marketing or branding or anything like that. Any animal thinks of food and thinks "mmm" maybe not "delicious" or "orgasmic" because they don't have language, but they think of how much they'll enjoy eating it... and human evolution has included food sharing and social eating (i.e. all eating together as part of social entertainment) for at least 2 million years maybe as long as 7 million years of hominin evolution (i.e. it predates humans)

there is nothing wrong or bad about enjoying food or socialising with food. Obesity isn't caused by these things, it's caused by the fact we have developed advanced enough technology to provide ourselves with a reliable source of food without having to do any physical exertion to get it. Any other era, people had to exert themselves to get food. Hunter-gatherers had to hunt animals and wander around the countryside gathering other foods. For most of history, people had to plough fields and tend to crops and harvest them... all physical labour. Even in fairy recent times people still had to walk everywhere. When my mum was a little girl, just to go shopping you had to go to several different shops - butcher, baker, greengrocer, etc, and walk there and back, carrying all the shopping. Now we have food in a more plentiful supply than ever before and every kind of labour saving device to not have to move our bodies. You can even order restaurant food by phone or internet to be delivered through your living room window. That's the cause of obesity. Enjoying food and viewing food in ways that have nothing to do with nutrition isn't the problem. Eating too much and moving too little is the problem. Solution: eat less and move more... or even if you don't want to eat less, you don't have to, just do enough exercise that none of what you eat gets stored as fat.

It's important when trying to be healthy to allow yourself to enjoy food without guilt, because the ultimate goal is long term maintenance and no-one can do that on a diet that makes them feel miserable. So enjoy your food, just make sure you do enough physical activity that it doesn't get stored as fat.

strange but all i can really think of when I read that sentence is my favorite food, Chipotle burritos, lol.

How much protein is in this