So I was having a completely random conversation with my mother today and she was getting nostalgic for baby me (lol, don't ask... you know how mom's can be!) and she said something that caught my attention and really floored me. She said,
"You know, I remember you in your crib... so sweet and adorable... and how you would always cry at night unless you had a bottle with you, even if you weren't hungry. You just wanted it with you!"
To her, it was a soft, wonderful memory.... but to me.... someone who's suffered from obesity nearly her whole life and had (still sometimes has!!) an issue with getting up, literally, in the middle of the night and having to shove random things in her mouth for no apparent reason (I call it my midnight zombie walk)............. to me it was a horrifying realization: This has literally been going on my whole life.
Why??
Is it because they always gave into me and gave it to me when I wanted it? Did I starve to death in a past life? What the heck....??
Sorry... I just had to share this and get it off my chest.
How about you guys.... can you pinpoint the period in your lives, exactly, when it turned from normal eating and wanting to abnormal?