Would you like don't need to eat?

Eight wrote:But eat, not just to live, but to... well, eat.

Actually, my concept of food and eating has pretty much been reduced to one thing: nutrition. I've always had an interest/curiosity in nutrition, even as a little kid, and it's amazing how the right or wrong foods can affect your long and short term health.

I spend a lot of time reading about nutrition and food studies, and over the years have tailored my diet to suit what I believe are my specific nutritional needs.

So most of the time when I finish a meal, rather than thinking that was good, I'll think that was good for me.

^ I see that as rather the same thing, naps.
You're deriving pleasure from the thing, in this case, food.
Maybe not taste pleasure per se but pleasure at the thought that you're giving your body the building blocks it needs to optimize your health? or something along those lines?
Regardless, you're thoughtful about eating and probably while you're eating.

Of course. There has to be some incentive for me to eat.

DavidTennant wrote:Would you rather not need to eat anymore?

Yes. I feel uncomfortable after eating. My skin gets sensitive and i can feel the fat in my body more which i don't like. Maybe that's why i'm so skinny. Can't say that i do not enjoy eating though.

RedSoviet wrote:

DavidTennant wrote:Would you rather not need to eat anymore?

Yes. I feel uncomfortable after eating. My skin gets sensitive and i can feel the fat in my body more which i don't like.

Food allergy?

Members explaining their need for stimuli is noted and interesting. Do you not enjoy it when everything is shut off? I don't often have background music or the tv on and, around dinner time, once I've finished reading or posting online, I'll just sit in quiet, dimly lit rooms and think, wander, imagine, or pay attention to my body, the clock, sounds I can hear coming from outside.

When I eat, my issue isn't lack of stimuli but staying here and not recessing into my head again. I try to stay present. Other noise just clutters me. That's not to say I don't ever eat without the laptop besides me because that'd be a lie but I do tend to make a point of enjoying the peace and a chance for thoughts that had probably been churning behind whatever was bombarding right in front of me to manifest properly.

I'm still a very inconsistent eater. 6pm and haven't had anything today yet. Perhaps you might wonder whether reducing eating to a nutritional need rather than an event would mean I do it more often but I find I'm even less conscientious of it in those circumstances where I can't have a little fun with some basil or garlic or when trying to figure out the best way to achieve a crispy texture, etc. The culinary 'artistry', so to speak, is all that really makes it enjoyable. Experimenting and experiencing a very small dose of trying to make something pleasing and then giving full attention to it.

Again, I use full attention loosely, because I'm not strict with my thoughts and have idle thinking time while at the table.

I think that most of the time, I seriously need to distract myself from the eating situation when I eat. I rarely eat without my laptop/mobile or a book when I'm alone. In summer I like to eat in my modest garden and see and sense all the beautiful living things around me. Then I'm not bored. But when I eat indoors I need to dissociate a bit. I still taste and enjoy my food but I don't want to pay full attention to emptying my plate. There's a depressing element, which is difficult to explain.

under ice wrote:I think that most of the time, I seriously need to distract myself from the eating situation when I eat. I rarely eat without my laptop/mobile or a book when I'm alone. In summer I like to eat in my modest garden and see and sense all the beautiful living things around me. Then I'm not bored. But when I eat indoors I need to dissociate a bit. I still taste and enjoy my food but I don't want to pay full attention to emptying my plate. There's a depressing element, which is difficult to explain.

That makes sense. Maybe that's why I need to eat in front of the TV or while reading. To distract myself. I think If I were to sit and concentrate on the flavor and texture of my food, I would get grossed out.

naps wrote:Food allergy?

No. Just a significant increase in sensitivity to internal body sensations.