I'm going to piggy back on your comments as they totally apply to me too!
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Originally Posted by GotothegymOKAY
[COLOR="red"]I'll start.
I went along with a guy friend to do his grocery shopping with him, and he got tons of amazing, tempting snack foods. The entire rest of the day, he didn't crack open one bag/box of anything because he had no "interest to eat that right now." If that were me, I would've started eating the food in the car ride home.
That's how my husband is. He can have a box of unopened snacks that last through our next food shopping and if I say "Do you need a snack?", he will respond that he still has the said snack from last week unopened. (The good part of my diet is that I don't like the snacks he likes so I'm never tempted!) I used to always grab myself a snack for the ride home from food shopping too, and it was never an apple or an orange. It was chicken fingers from the prepared food section, a bag of chips at the register, or <gasp> open the bread, the cold cuts and the chips and make a sandwich in the car. Who does that? I used to.... It would never ever occur to my husband to eat on the way home from shopping or even when we walk in the door (I used to open packages of things I just *had* to have right then, could be 3-4-5 things).
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Originally Posted by GotothegymOKAY
I was with my sister the other day and dinner was in the oven. I opened her cabinets and took out chips and salsa. I was chowing down in front of the TV and realized she wasn't eating. When I asked her why she wasn't eating these amazing chips and salsa in front of her face, she looked at me like I was crazy and said, "Why would I eat that when I'm about to eat dinner in 15 minutes?" She's right. It makes so much sense. Why can't I grasp that?
When we go to certain friends of ours for a Saturday night, they either plan to have snacks or to order pizza. The snacks will usually be a veggie tray, chips & salsa, a warm appetizer (sometimes a cheese dip with crackers or stuffed mushrooms) and that's it for the night with our drinks. If they decide it's pizza night, then it's just the veggie tray prior. When it's our turn to host, it's all of the above!! It would never occur to me not to have appetizers, snacks, pizza and then dessert to top it off! No wonder she was 180lbs less than me (yes 180 LESS)...
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Originally Posted by GotothegymOKAY
I'm jealous of people with "normal brains." It just shows me how unhealthy my relationship with food is.
I will never have a normal brain in regards to food. I don't even know if I ever did. I think I loved food for my whole life. And my mom was so generous to her 4 children, she'd make us whatever we wanted (even if it was 4 different meals because we wanted something different. Spoiled brats we were). I mean, not every night but more often than not. If we didn't want chicken, she'd make us a hamburger. She never wanted us to be hungry. Out of the 4 of us, I'm the oldest and really the only one who gained ridiculous weight as an adult (I was fairly thin til I was 18 but was so active til I got a car and a job.). A lot of my eating I believe had to do with unresolved emotional issues but that's a story for another thread.
I'm jealous of people too. Food is everywhere, we need it to survive, it's an addiction. But hopefully I have a grasp on it this time. HOPE-FULL-Y.