what’s your relationship with food? xD

[DocNo]

love hate relationship.
can't eat lots of the good stuff like chocolate (cacao based stuff in general), cheese, some kind of noodles, potatoe based stuff.
chocolate gives me a head exploding migraine headache and also increases heartbeat. feels like being poisoned (maybe i should try to OD on that stuff lol).
potatoes slightly swells my mucous membrane which reduces breathing capacities through my nose - which often leads to a headache after sleeping.

alcohol is also a nearly instant headache generator. but that doesnt really bother me, cause i never really liked alcohol. tastes awful and is some kind of a stupid way of being high in terms of inspiration.

 

[TheGoodGuy]

I HATE eating, I have a throat problem so it takes me 20 minutes just to eat a cheese burger from MC Donalds or 15 minutes for eating a piece of bread. I love the taste of a lot of foods and I am not picky at all about taste I just hate having to sit 45-50 minutes to eat and even sometimes by that time if there is still some on my plate I will throw the rest out since I have a rule that after 45-50 minutes I refuse to eat anymore.

 

[Fehler]

Normally i only eat when im hungry or really hungry, it depends on the mood of the day, but not for pleasure. Also i'm ectomorph (the "lucky one" who don't get fat) plus i like to do a little bit of exercice so im skinny without musculature. Few years ago i liked to cook but nowdays im too lazy to do it so i only eat things that can be made fast (pasta, rice, pizza...etc) and no vegetables or fish and few meat; if i don't ctb i think my body will do it

 

[woxihuanni]

I fed it to him, he used starving me as part of his determination to kill me. I hope his Abomination dies as well so he gets too sick to eat even the fridge crap he eats now rather than my excellent food.

Will she bake your bread everyday, eh? Can you chew the rocky cookies she makes? Does she put her hands in minced meat to knead? Or on yours, haha.

 

[stygal]

Really bad...switching between eating too much and too little since my early teens...having no other catalyst since my physical impairment prevents me from doing a lot of activity. Just trapped with all those yummy temptations :(

 

[lonelymountaingirl]

I hate that I like to eat
and would like to hate it instead.

Sorry for using that four-letter word, 'hate', but true.

 

[Life sucks]

A way to combat anhedonia, sometimes it works like a med and gives brain chemicals.

 

[W’ren]

I eat a meal maybe once a day-

I get hungry so rarely that if i do it makes me anxious to a point of panic.

I have an ED, but it's untreated right now. No one thinks it's active because i'm not losing weight.The people closest to me are uneducated in EDs, and those that would spot it are unaware of my eating habits.

I'm so depressed that i don't want to eat, and honestly i forget about eating too. Not that i forget my dog's feeding times! He eats 4x a day- i guess i just don't care about myself.

With COVID i am anxious beyond anxiety- and grocery shopping means leaving the house.. i am a shut in. So i don't really keep snack food in my house like i did pre-covid.

Depressed, anxious, plus i always feel i could lose a few lbs, so yeah, body image comes into it too.

I've said to my friend, if i didn't HAVE to eat, i wouldn't.

I guess i have a dysfunctional relationship with food...

 

[sufferingalways]

I like food overall but I am not allowed to use my kitchen freely so I go hungry
The director of housing said in a letter replying and regarding our letter about equal rights as disabled people;
"the law applies to the average person and not those with unusual sensitivities."

Wtf?

This staff member knows I suffer from epilepsy as it's in the letter to him. The above was his reply.

Another bad result from his attitude is there's damp in my two back rooms (flashing lights in a neighbour garden and our request they be removed as Reasonable Adjustments).
Sorry for tangent. It was food related.

 

[PointlessStruggle]

Cooking is a hobby of mine actually, mainly since I love food. Mostly into meat, but I know lots of pasta dishes well too

I used to be okay with food until I started eating my anger and put weight on. I've lost that weight but it's a daily battle not to stuff myself with chocs and other snacks.

The problem is that snacking makes me forget my issues and it gives me a high. My relationship with food is rocky and I keep obsessing over my weight.

Unrelated but nice A2 profile picture, Nier Automata is one of my favorite games of all time

 

[xLosthopex]

Couldn't have a worse relationship with food. Was diagnosed with Anorexia when I was 14, dealt solely with the restrictive subtype until I was 18 when I began binging and purging. I'm now 23 and have relapsed back into the binge/purge cycle since Covid happened. I also describe it as a love/hate relationship. I love food so much but am also obsessed with being skinny(it's become such a core part of my identity) so the fact that I can consume 10k+ calories every day and still be extremely underweight and continue to lose weight is kinda a win win situation...
Well except for the fact that this illness is killing me(and has almost killed me many times) and done irreversible damage to my health and I really don't want to die this way, that's why I plan to ctb with my peaceful method hopefully before this horrible illness gets me first

 

[succor]

I dislike cooking as standing upright for too long is painful, though I like cooking for other people if it makes them happy. I like food, love delicious things, but hate the actual action of eating because it causes pain. At this point I eat to survive. I have a complicated relationship with food.

 

[Deleted member 19276]

Not eating a lot, but when eating - Pretty much anything, from sweets to junk food to healthy stuff like fruits and vegetables.
Can't gain weight for some reason. Pretty skinny. : /
Though, food is welcome in my books, all sorts of good and tasty things out there. It's just that I can't push myself to consume a lot.

 

[demuic]

The only way to describe my eating habits is the condition known as ARFID. It's stressful being around new foods and not knowing whether I'll be able to eat them or not, but the few foods I do like I have no problem with eating.

 

[Futile]

It's the only relationship I have

 

[MindFrog]

I usually dont eat much, but now i had to eat normally because im being watched. if i get so stressed i binge eat a lot. I cant even taste the food, i feel like i just need to fill myself up with something.

 

[lobster salad]

I eat too much and I'm overweight as a result. Good gives me comfort, cake, chocolate, cookies etc. I'll eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I have an unhappy relationship with food I'd say, I eat because I'm unhappy and I'm unhappy because I eat.

Is that quote "I eat because I'm unhappy and I'm unhappy because I eat" from Fat Bastard in the Austin powers movie? haha

 

[Disappointered]

I stuff my face day and night with edible garbage to distract from having to think about my life.

 

[xLosthopex]

It's the only relationship I have

This.

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

It's the only relationship I have

Me too, and even this relationship has to be unhappy, hostile and damaging to my self esteem.

 

[KickFive]

Not eating a lot, but when eating - Pretty much anything, from sweets to junk food to healthy stuff like fruits and vegetables.
Can't gain weight for some reason. Pretty skinny. : /
Though, food is welcome in my books, all sorts of good and tasty things out there. It's just that I can't push myself to consume a lot.

The reason you can't gain weight is that you eat at a net caloric negative, whether that's a daily thing or a weekly thing, ultimately you are not consuming enough calories to beat your BMR and store the excess. I promise you there's nothing mysterious at work.

 

[Nymph]

I love junk food and unhealthy food, I'm lactose intolerant tho which keeps me from enjoying one of my favorite foods which is ice cream or other things like that. I'm on meds rn and they help me keep my weight stable but before that I was very depressed and couldn't eat what I wanted, I was counting all my calories and it was stressful as hell. Now I can eat whatever I want

 

[lotus11]

horrendous...10 years of ed in various forms. I eat very little. Although when I do eat it is usually very healthy.