Blonde Logic
Yes. You can.
After nearly three weeks, I have noticed something. By abstaining, and not having food as my focus, in just a short few weeks I am starting already to see it differently. For one thing, I have notice that normal people eat a LOT of food. That must mean I ate a LOT a LOT of food.
Having a meal with my inlaws last week, I was rathar amazed to see the amount of food on their plates. What I used to eat with them. And they are slim, normal people. It really looked obscene, this entire plate full of food, with food on top of food even.
I notice now colleagues at work, who go down to the kanteen in the morning and get a full english breakfast. Then just 2 or 3 hours later, they are back down there for lunch. Then there are the trips to the vending machine in the afternoon, plus whatever tin of sweets have been awarded for reaching some ridiculous target, that gets passed around and devoured in no time at all. Then presumably they all go home and eat a big meal as well. Most of them, are slim. I can only assume they are very active physicially.
At the grocery store tonight, which as you may know was a bit of a shock and struggle for me - seeing so much food everywhere....all the items with their own evil voices trying to tempt me....there is just SO much food! Do we, humans, really need that much food? That much selection?? Is it not a tad excessive? Or is it just that my senses are hightened for not being able to eat anything?
I received an email the other day - I wish there was some way I could post it here. I will look in to that. It showed families from several different countries, with a weeks worth of food laid out in their lounges, or huts, or alleys, depending which country. It also showed the cost spent on food. It was really something. All of the western-ised countries had loads and loads of food. And lots of packaged items. As it went down through the Third World type countries, and the poorer countries....it was almost all fruit, veg, grains, etc. And a very minimal amount.
Have we just been caught up in a culture of glutteny? There is certainly more food now then I ever saw in a kitchen when I was a child. And we were not deprived, or poor, or anything. We were normal, middle class family, with food always on the table. But our lives did not revolve around it.
Why has food become such a big thing? How did it become such a big thing for me? I was not raised on junk. We never ever even had crisps in the house unless there had been a big party. Normally there was none. We never ever had Coke, or Soda. It was a realy big thing to be at a little friends house and have a coke. A reaaaaal big thing. We always had a big bowl of fruit on the table. We did not have a deep fat fryer, not that I do now, but nothing was fried. Fried chicken was a rare and special treat if we went out for dinner. Nothing was ever served fried at home - no frozen french fries - nothing.
We ate healthy family meals, all of us together, at the table without the TV on. We rarely had dessert. Unless it was a special occasion. We were not made to clean our plates, and if we wanted seconds we were allowed, but not often taken. There were no issues, pressures, consequences. We were just 'normal'.. After all the homework was done and if we were watching TV as a family, the snacks passed around the room were cut up apples and oranges. And they were wonderful and satisfying. If we were hungry before dinner, a usual snack was a chunk of iceberg lettuce with a small amount of dressing or sour cream to dip it in - not some tupe of cheese squirted on biscuits, or fruit mashed till it was unrecognisable and smeared on a platic paper to be peeled of and eaten. We drank milk with dinner, not coke, not juice or some artifically flavoured drink. Milk or water.
I just am beginning to see food in a different light. I know it is quite cliche - but it really is true. Food should be eaten to live....we should not live to eat.
I often wonder too, thinking about my familys eating habits. Holidays and camping trips always consisted of an awful lot of fresh fruit. It was a special day if we stopped for an ice cream cone. It was not an everyday occurance. Or an every week occurance, or every month. There were no coffee shops with whip cream piled on top of your coffee. Or coffe blended with cream and massive amount of sugar and artifical flavours. Or 2 or 3 burgers on a sandwhich. One was always enough. Bacon was for breakfast. It did not have to be added on to everything. And the same goes for cheese. you had a cheese sandwhich, or a slice of cheese for a snack. Not a cheese omelette, and burger with cheese, a pizza with extra cheese, chips with cheese, cheese with cheese.
It has become just so very excessive!!!!!
Are we victims of our own circumstances, or are we victims of a culture that has become obessed with more and more and more food? And why just us - why not everyone.
Food for thought. Thats what I want. A nice big bowl of food for thought.
Having a meal with my inlaws last week, I was rathar amazed to see the amount of food on their plates. What I used to eat with them. And they are slim, normal people. It really looked obscene, this entire plate full of food, with food on top of food even.
I notice now colleagues at work, who go down to the kanteen in the morning and get a full english breakfast. Then just 2 or 3 hours later, they are back down there for lunch. Then there are the trips to the vending machine in the afternoon, plus whatever tin of sweets have been awarded for reaching some ridiculous target, that gets passed around and devoured in no time at all. Then presumably they all go home and eat a big meal as well. Most of them, are slim. I can only assume they are very active physicially.
At the grocery store tonight, which as you may know was a bit of a shock and struggle for me - seeing so much food everywhere....all the items with their own evil voices trying to tempt me....there is just SO much food! Do we, humans, really need that much food? That much selection?? Is it not a tad excessive? Or is it just that my senses are hightened for not being able to eat anything?
I received an email the other day - I wish there was some way I could post it here. I will look in to that. It showed families from several different countries, with a weeks worth of food laid out in their lounges, or huts, or alleys, depending which country. It also showed the cost spent on food. It was really something. All of the western-ised countries had loads and loads of food. And lots of packaged items. As it went down through the Third World type countries, and the poorer countries....it was almost all fruit, veg, grains, etc. And a very minimal amount.
Have we just been caught up in a culture of glutteny? There is certainly more food now then I ever saw in a kitchen when I was a child. And we were not deprived, or poor, or anything. We were normal, middle class family, with food always on the table. But our lives did not revolve around it.
Why has food become such a big thing? How did it become such a big thing for me? I was not raised on junk. We never ever even had crisps in the house unless there had been a big party. Normally there was none. We never ever had Coke, or Soda. It was a realy big thing to be at a little friends house and have a coke. A reaaaaal big thing. We always had a big bowl of fruit on the table. We did not have a deep fat fryer, not that I do now, but nothing was fried. Fried chicken was a rare and special treat if we went out for dinner. Nothing was ever served fried at home - no frozen french fries - nothing.
We ate healthy family meals, all of us together, at the table without the TV on. We rarely had dessert. Unless it was a special occasion. We were not made to clean our plates, and if we wanted seconds we were allowed, but not often taken. There were no issues, pressures, consequences. We were just 'normal'.. After all the homework was done and if we were watching TV as a family, the snacks passed around the room were cut up apples and oranges. And they were wonderful and satisfying. If we were hungry before dinner, a usual snack was a chunk of iceberg lettuce with a small amount of dressing or sour cream to dip it in - not some tupe of cheese squirted on biscuits, or fruit mashed till it was unrecognisable and smeared on a platic paper to be peeled of and eaten. We drank milk with dinner, not coke, not juice or some artifically flavoured drink. Milk or water.
I just am beginning to see food in a different light. I know it is quite cliche - but it really is true. Food should be eaten to live....we should not live to eat.
I often wonder too, thinking about my familys eating habits. Holidays and camping trips always consisted of an awful lot of fresh fruit. It was a special day if we stopped for an ice cream cone. It was not an everyday occurance. Or an every week occurance, or every month. There were no coffee shops with whip cream piled on top of your coffee. Or coffe blended with cream and massive amount of sugar and artifical flavours. Or 2 or 3 burgers on a sandwhich. One was always enough. Bacon was for breakfast. It did not have to be added on to everything. And the same goes for cheese. you had a cheese sandwhich, or a slice of cheese for a snack. Not a cheese omelette, and burger with cheese, a pizza with extra cheese, chips with cheese, cheese with cheese.
It has become just so very excessive!!!!!
Are we victims of our own circumstances, or are we victims of a culture that has become obessed with more and more and more food? And why just us - why not everyone.
Food for thought. Thats what I want. A nice big bowl of food for thought.
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