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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2009
     
    Anyone ever just eat for the sake of it making you feel happy?

    I've had such a shit month and i just can't see the next month getting any better tbh.

    And i can't stop eating. Honestly. It's like i'll say to myself 'put the crisps down!!! You will get fat! Down! Now!' But i tell myself to shut up (not literally - i'm not THAT mad ... yet) and i eat them....and i enjoy it. God do i enjoy it....

    So...why does eating food make you feel better? I don't get it.

    For me...it's like, i have nothing else to look forward to most of the time other than 'oooo, takeaway tonight'. And, looking forward to that makes the day feel a little better.

    That makes me sound like a proper saddo.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2009
     
    But ... i must add, i'm not fat! At least....not yet.
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    I think yours is a very common behaviour. I myself used to eat a lot of chips, chocolate, candies etc. when felt blue and discontented.

    Here's what I found on Urby:

    1. comfort food

    (n) Defined as food that gives emotional comfort to the one eating it, these tend to be favorite foods of childhood, or linked to a person, place or time with which the food has a positive association.

    2. comfort food

    food that is not only comforting to the taste buds, but all the other senses.


    Fear not, Lozzy, you had a shit month and maybe you're a bit in a low mood. It's just a phase.
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    I must add: I'm sure that Mrsthing can explain better than me. I know that sugar, for example, gives a wellness sensation.
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    Honestly, I never felt like eating made me feel better when I was blue, maybe because I enjoy food in general and eating makes me happy, so the situation is not extraordinary when I'm down. I actually hate eating when I'm depressed - I see it as a good excuse to lose weight, I just don't feel like doing anything, so why eat if I won't enjoy it?

    I any case Loz, do whatever the fuck you want. It may be unhealthy or for some frowned upon, but who gives a shit, just eat and rejoice. The world is your packet of crisps.
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    "Blue" wasn't the right word. Maybe "frustrated"?
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2009
     
    I like the word blue.

    But i guess you could say i'm blue and frustrated.
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    ahhhhhhh, just to fill up my mouth with creamy stuff, like cream cheese pies, and custards, and tapico, and cheesecake. comfort food!

    Or spaghetti!

    or grits!

    Or bread pudding!

    Or lasagna, ahhhh lasagna, yes, yes, yes!

    or pasta salad with veggies

    spaghetti with lots of cheeses instead of meat. yummmmmmmmmmmm

    I make a very, very, excellenty-good raisin pie that is my great-grandmother's recipe from England, or else it came from Scotland. Doesn't matter. It's very good. I only make it for holidays.
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    I don't really eat for comfort, though. If I'm really tired, I want something good to eat as a comfort, though.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2009
     
    I try very hard not to eat for comfort, as I *am* fat and have high cholesterol.

    But--eating stimulates opiate production in the brain and in your gut, so eating gives you a double-whammy of the "feel-good" chemicals your brain naturally produces. So eating when you're down is instinctive. Sugar and chocolate are particularly effective.

    But Lozzy, if you go for more than a couple of weeks feeling like the only thing to look forward to is eating, and if you start gaining weight, that's when you need to do something about it. An occasional bag of crisps isn't a problem. A bag of them every day, especially if you're using it to avoid thinking about what's *really* wrong with your life--that's a problem.

    Buttermilk mashed potatoes...yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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    Trying to figure out why this is relevant.

    It's not a real add, is it? When's it from?
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      CommentAuthorgiacoma
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2009
     
    50's maybe
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      CommentAuthorenglishcad
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2009
     
    Gungas operates on every thread been non sequential just like Chris in that respect...
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    Those shoulder pads make me think it could be from 40's. Once I saw a documentary about WWII with clips in which American soldiers were invited to use condoms while abroad by their ranking officers.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009
     
    Hey!

    I've found the perfect solution to this whole thread today!

    I now have no money to eat!

    Ta daaarr!

    I will be living on Pot Noodles until January.



    I only like this flavour (chicken and mushroom)
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      CommentAuthorgiacoma
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009
     
    That' s a positive way to see things Lozzy!
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009 edited
     
    I don't eat money...btw. I meant, I don't have any money to...oh, to hell, you all know what I meant!
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    mmmm I ate some noodles in a cup today. Chemically goodness.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2009
     
    Today, all I've had are 2 ham sandwiches. Its all I have in the house, until I spend my ridiculous pennies at the corner shop tomorrow. It is bed time now. I could always eat my breasts.
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    You could also check behind grocery stores. Here in the US, stores throw away perfectly good food, just because a wrapper is broken or part of the food is a bit crushed. Restaurants sometimes throw out perfectly good stuff, too. "Freegan" dining is all the rage. Don't know what it's like in the UK. But desperate times call for desperate measures. If I'd known about it back when I was poor, I would have done it in a heartbeat.

    I also stole cabbages from a farm that was just leaving them out long after harvest. When you're hungry, food is food--they were very good cabbages, too! Very sweet. I'd go at dusk and take some from the back corner where there were some bushes I could hide in. I ate a lot of cabbage for 2 weeks, then the farmer plowed them under! After that, I didn't feel so guilty about stealing the cabbages.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    Mrsthing, are you encouraging me to steal?
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    No, I'm encouraging you to scavenge.

    I was so hungry, and this huge field of cabbages (about an acre) was just sitting there untended. Yes, it was stealing, but after the farmer plowed them under, I didn't feel guilty about it. He didn't want them anyway.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    I will search through some bins tonight.
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    Yay, Lozzy, find anything good?

    There're a lot of cool perfectly good stuff people just throw away, I've scavenged myself a coupla times. Sometimes I just can't stand the waste.
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      CommentAuthorLozzykinz
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2009 edited
     
    I found this...

    It's in a bag for evidence. In case i die having touched it.

    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2009
     
    I wasn't joking about "Freegan", btw.

    http://freegan.info/?page_id=2
    • CommentAuthormrsthing
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2009 edited
     
    And Possum, I once went out back of my local Stop & Shop, and saw a huge pile of loaves of bread, still in their wrappers. They looked fine; the dates on the tags were from the day before, though, and by law, they had to throw them away. I asked if I could have a couple, and the guy yelled at me to get off the premises.
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    I wasn't joking either. And the amounts they through away in the army is repulsingly ridiculous.

    Oh and Lozzy - a big fat EW for you.
 

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