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Originally posted by purse junkie
Holy crap, what do you eat? I admire (and could not even approach) your self-control. I am certain I take in way more than that, if only because I consider vegetables a scourge, tofu and other health foods disgusting, artificial sweeteners an abomination against God, and a day without the slow savoring of a good truffle a day wasted. Like I said, I have to exercise. Else I'm sure I'd be a monster.
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Being a vegetarian helps -- veggies are blissfully low in calories. I eat a lot of lettuce, fruit and vegetable soup. Sometimes when I work late I just forget to eat dinner. I think the trick is that I don't view food as anything beyond fuel -- in other words, I don't eat food for pleasure like a lot of plump people that I know do. That is not to say that there are not a few pleasure foods that I eat -- I just don't eat them very often because I figure that the pleasure would dissipate if the food was an every day item. Don't get me wrong, I like what I eat but I don't generally eat to satisfy anything except my body's need for fuel. I don't like sweets -- chocolate gives me headaches and sugar makes me "weird hyper" so I tend to stay away from sugary stuff. Beer is my weakness -- anywhere from 500 to 1,000 calories a day so it is probably a good thing that I don't get a lot from food.
If a person likes to eat I say go for it -- we all need to have our happy place. It is just that I don't get people who seem shocked to learn that you can't normally stay thin while you eat bags of chips washed down with soda while you sit on the couch all of the time. How can you not know that eating Big Macs three times a day is bad for you?? I smoke and drink and I know that the shit is "bad" for me but I am willing to take the consequences in exchange for the pleasure -- how can these people sue McDonalds with a straight face???
