I hate Food

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(Hal) #1

(Disclaimer: humor here).

Just kidding. No, really. I mean, we hear all the time ‘I love food’. This food, that food, recipes, shopping, cooking, cleaning, only to do it all again the next day. Never ending slaves to food, we are. That’s why fasting is great… no food!

It’s funny, because my wife is a vegetarian, pretty much, and I am a carnivore. Opposites attract, I guess.

It’s kind of like food is the enemy, in some sense. I feel like every time I eat I shorten my lifespan. When I fast, I feel like I am prolonging my life span, and my quality of life. Pretty much every time I break my fast I feel like I have descended from the spiritual realm to the physical :slight_smile:

So I have a mental game where when I am fasting, I tell myself I hate food, don’t wanna be near it, or around it, don’t want to think about it, etc. It works well for me personally to help me stick to my fast. And, truth be told, when I am fasting, most food is not appealing to me.

If it’s ok to love food, is it ok to hate food too? I am definitely not a foodie. I have about 5 things that I like: eggs, meat… ok, two things that I like.

Just wondering if anyone else has this spin on food. BTW, 57 year old male that went from 240 lbs. in 2014 to 165 presently, at first low carb, then keto, now IFing.

Just say no… to food :smile: at least intermittently.

(Chris) #2

That’s all ya need anyway. Just don’t hate food to the point of never eating again, that would obviously be a bad thing. I get where you’re coming from though.

#3

What I’ve found since I began this way of eating is that I now hurry through my meals to get them over with, which is SUCH a radical change for me! I used to savor, linger, and prolong my meals as much as possible to extend the experience and the joy of eating. Now, I am truly eating to live, not living to eat.

I would have NEVER thought that possible a few months ago and I didn’t even have to try - I just don’t look at food as a treat or reward or past-time anymore, it’s merely a necessity and sometimes a bother.
Sue

(Hal) #4

Food is matter. By ingesting matter, we deeply experience what the food is made of, so we ‘are what we eat’ so to speak. All joking aside, I am finding that the less OFTEN I eat (not the less AMOUNT) I feel so much better.
To some extent, food is an addiction. We as low carb (mostly) folks recognize that junk food is an addiction. However, real food can also become an addiction to some extent. After all, if one eats an extra helping of steak that he really wasn’t hungry for, but ate it anyway, that’s an addiction.
To put it simply, for me, eating is over-rated.
All the best to the fine people who run this forum and to all of the folks who participate. I learn a lot and hope to pass it on.

(icky) #5

OMG yes!

While some food is obviously pleasurable, I’ve always found food incredibly tedious and annoying.

I ADORE fasting.

It makes me realise how much TIME and effort goes into planning meals, shopping food, storing it, preparing it, cooking it, serving it, eating it, storing leftovers, disposing of waste, doing the dishes, etc etc

It makes me feel like I am my own body’s slave or servant to just be seeking sources of food for it.

If science one day develops some kind of astronaut’s thing where you take one pill per day with a glass of water and it’s got your vitamins, minerals, and some condendsed version of your F, P, C macros in it - I will be first in line to get this pill!

Having to put food in my system so many times per week let alone per year is a tedious bore.

(Brian) #6

Well y’all can hate food all you want. Not me. I’m a foodie and I ENJOY my food, a lot.

I totally get the intermittent fasting, do it fairly regularly. But when I eat, I eat well. Then again, I like a very wide variety of stuff from steak to eggs to broccoli to asparagus to blueberries to… well, it’s a long list…

:slight_smile:

(Kaiden) #7

This is one of the tricks behind mono-eating, which is more associated with plant-based diets than with keto, but I think that might be a labeling problem. Probably the most famous is people who just eat Potatoes.

On the keto side, there’s bacon-only, eggs-only, and bacon-and-eggs only. Jason Fung jokes about the “Jason Fung Pig Blood Diet,” but the concept is real. You can burn out eating one type of food exclusively, possibly as an evolutionary pressure to help us gain a diverse nutrient spectrum.

I’m thinking of two weeks of bacon and eggs.

(charlie3) #8

3 months into keto. At the moment I’m feeling hunger but it’s tapering off as the morning progresses. Today is the weekly 36 hour fast day. Monday-Friday’s are time restricted eating, 16:8, by skipping breakfast. Sunday will be bacon and eggs and a mid afternoon dinner.

It used to be 3 meals plus 2 snacks a day–36 insulin spikes a week. Today, it’s just 12 per week, with little or no carbs. (I have a perfect record on snacks since starting keto–zero.)

I needed to lose 20 pounds of fat to reach “ideal” weight. That’s done for now so I’m learning how to control food instead of food controlling me. That’s a powerful thing I never imagined.

(icky) #9

What do you mean by “one of the tricks” ? : )
Are you saying mono-eating is good or bad?

I’ve always felt this way about food. It’s not a new, Keto thing.

#10

Personally, I never use tricks to get through a fast. I learned early on to fast when I wasn’t truly hungry or couldn’t really get to food, but that if I was hungry, NOT to pull tricks (gum, coffee, more water, diversions). Hunger is my body talking to me and it was and is as important as not eating when i’m not hungry. Just thought I’d throw that out there

(Kaiden) #11

I’m just saying that if your food is boring, you won’t eat for fun.

(Hal) #12

Well, whatever works for the individual. We are all wired a little differently and what works for one may not work for another. Viva la difference. It’s great that you have your own needs figured out – I’m still working on it but getting better. Another thing is that sometimes, even after I eat, my stomach feels the same as it did before I ate. So, I’m like what’s the point?

(CharleyD) #13

Indeed, this is my favorite lesson from Deep Nutrition, in that our DNA is given information about the world around it based off our diet (and toxin, sun, sleep, stress) exposure. So if we eat a high fat diet, we tell DNA that the ‘hunt’ goes well, and our DNA responds by being permissive with letting go of our fat stores, and otherwise doesn’t act epigenetially like we have to save and store everything we eat.