sirant
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Anyone else experience this?
Drinking is such an interesting past time. You have a couple drinks and you feel good. Many people stop there, but many more seem to think a couple more will make it feel even better. And then you are feeling so good you stop thinking of the consequences and have a couple more.... And so on until someone is puking their guts out under the table.... Or worse.
This is certainly not an uncommon event which I am sure all of us who have gone to parties, bars, nightclubs, camping trips, etc has experienced, if not themselves, then they saw it happen to someone else. This is almost always blamed on the booze, not the boozer.
But does anyone else find this also for food? It has been discussed here that a successful weight loss plan does not have to be about depriving ourselves of the food we love, but more importantly controlling the urges which make us want to eat massive amounts.
I know I played this game too many times. As a young adult, living on my own, I often played a little game with myself which I KNOW greatly contributed to my lifetime of obesity. I would order the infamous 2 for 1 pizza deal, thinking to myself at the time (and every time thereafter) that I would get the pizza, eat 1/2 of one, then have tomorrows lunch and dinner all taken care of..... But then, upon waking in the morning you would quickly realize that you didn't eat 1/2 a pizza at all, in fact there isn't a slice left for lunch or dinner....
And this happens all the time. What makes quantity so much more important than quality, and when we find quality why is it so important to eat as much as possible? Supersize it! 2 for 1 (or 3 for 1) it! Family size (even if only 1 person in the "family" that night).
Why is it so hard to just get the taste of Chocolate by having 1 square, then put the other 11 away till tomorrow. I know some can do it, but nobody I know personally. Its never enough to have a small slurpee when the jumbo-mega-giant size is only 50 cents more.....
Am I really getting drunk (drug free equivalent anyways) from the taste of the food? Why is it bigger and more, makes it better? Why can't I savor the flavor without having to stuff myself full with it?
I know in the past year I have been making a concerted effort NOT to order the biggest and heaviest portions of the foods I love. And even though it tastes the same, it is still no where near as satisfying for some reason.....
What do you think? Seems mighty common to me, a very easy trap I have fallen into many many times.
sirant
Drinking is such an interesting past time. You have a couple drinks and you feel good. Many people stop there, but many more seem to think a couple more will make it feel even better. And then you are feeling so good you stop thinking of the consequences and have a couple more.... And so on until someone is puking their guts out under the table.... Or worse.
This is certainly not an uncommon event which I am sure all of us who have gone to parties, bars, nightclubs, camping trips, etc has experienced, if not themselves, then they saw it happen to someone else. This is almost always blamed on the booze, not the boozer.
But does anyone else find this also for food? It has been discussed here that a successful weight loss plan does not have to be about depriving ourselves of the food we love, but more importantly controlling the urges which make us want to eat massive amounts.
I know I played this game too many times. As a young adult, living on my own, I often played a little game with myself which I KNOW greatly contributed to my lifetime of obesity. I would order the infamous 2 for 1 pizza deal, thinking to myself at the time (and every time thereafter) that I would get the pizza, eat 1/2 of one, then have tomorrows lunch and dinner all taken care of..... But then, upon waking in the morning you would quickly realize that you didn't eat 1/2 a pizza at all, in fact there isn't a slice left for lunch or dinner....
And this happens all the time. What makes quantity so much more important than quality, and when we find quality why is it so important to eat as much as possible? Supersize it! 2 for 1 (or 3 for 1) it! Family size (even if only 1 person in the "family" that night).
Why is it so hard to just get the taste of Chocolate by having 1 square, then put the other 11 away till tomorrow. I know some can do it, but nobody I know personally. Its never enough to have a small slurpee when the jumbo-mega-giant size is only 50 cents more.....
Am I really getting drunk (drug free equivalent anyways) from the taste of the food? Why is it bigger and more, makes it better? Why can't I savor the flavor without having to stuff myself full with it?
I know in the past year I have been making a concerted effort NOT to order the biggest and heaviest portions of the foods I love. And even though it tastes the same, it is still no where near as satisfying for some reason.....
What do you think? Seems mighty common to me, a very easy trap I have fallen into many many times.
sirant
