If you chew up all your food and spit it out...

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Nada...

1. A person who chews and spits is not allowing essential nutrients into the body. Therefore, the behavior is akin to starvation dieting and/or purging by vomiting.

2. Ulcers (because food in the mouth triggers acid release in the stomach) and jaw pain are possibly in store for regular chewers and spitters.

3. Weight gain, not weight loss is the most likely consequence. The body reacts in unforeseen ways to continual chewing and spitting. Seeing, smelling, hearing about and even the hint of food can trigger the release of insulin. This hormone regulates blood sugar and is a major player in diabetes. Tasting food releases salivary enzymes and also triggers the release of insulin. Excess insulin is a dieter’s worst nightmare, because the hormone stirs appetite, making a person feel hungrier, wanting to chew and spit more. Here lies the addiction to chewing and spitting, which like bingeing and purging can be daunting to try and quit. Heightened appetite also triggers eventual weight gain, something easily evidenced by simply reading the bloggers’ laments. If a person chews and spits long enough, they can fall into a state of hyper-insulinemia, producing too much insulin, which sets him or her up for insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and eventually diabetes.

4. Finally, a person who chews and spits is probably harboring deeper fears about his or her weight and body image. These fears– and all preoccupations with thinness and dieting– are the foundation of all eating disorders. If you chew and spit, you are setting yourself up for a serious disorder later in life.

Don’t wait for Chewing and Spitting to become an “official” eating disorder. If you’re chewing and spitting,PLEASE get help now.”

If you chew up all your food and spit it out...how many calories (what %) do you take in/absorb?

I'm not certain whether you're just asking this for humor reasons, or whether or not you're considering this, but be aware that this is behavior consistent with eating disorders and I would absolutely recommend that you:

a) Don't do this.
b) Stop thinking about things like this.

and if you have a hard time with either

c) Get help.

what he said xx

I have sort of wandered this... not in an eating disorder way, but with stuff you are meant to chew and spit out.

Like chewing/bubble gum. Do you take in all the calories it says on the pack if you are not actually swallowing it?

If you chew up all your food and spit it out.....

1. You're wasting a lot of money
2. You get no dessert in this house young lady so go to your room and think about what you've done
3. You might get hired in hollywood
4. You might have an eating disorder

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Haha to be honest, I've actually done this. I attempted to bake some healthy cupcakes... after I made them I started to eat one and decided that they just weren't good enough to waste my calories on... so I spat it out! Nothing wrong with that... right? :P

That's so yucky. I like food too much to just waste it on a few chews.

Get. Help.

100% this ^

It works better when you swallow!:yawn: :bigsmile:

Haha to be honest, I've actually done this. I attempted to bake some healthy cupcakes... after I made them I started to eat one and decided that they just weren't good enough to waste my calories on... so I spat it out! Nothing wrong with that... right? :P

Nothing unhealthy about that. Personally, I'd swallow the bite you had and try to log it accurately, and either throw out or give away the remainder. But that's mostly because, if the food ain't bad, I'd rather not spit it out. The calories in a small bite of pretty much anything won't be much anyway.

Everyone is (rightfully) concerned about making a habit out of chew-spit, not the one-time "hey, you know, this isn't worth the calories" decision after you put something in your mouth.

If you find yourself making this decision often after choosing food, that's something else entirely, and you may want to consider talking to someone while it's just a minor issue.