I know theres the off the grog thread...

 

but what about food addicts ?

 

http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/inside-the-mind-of-a-food-addict-20150221-13178q.html

 

are there many of us here...

 

I love food..

 

its my downfall...

 

no you cant just go cold turkey on food altogether...and sure its all about portion control blah blah blah...but it gets me every time

During my recent and ongoing weight loss efforts I came to realise that food is indeed a drug and if you are ever to lose weight and keep it off, you must change your whole approach.

 

Excess food intake is not benign and although some may be shocked at this statement, I believe that food addiction and its subsequent consequences are one of the biggest drug problems. IMO it is an uncomfortable truuth

Live to eat, and eat to live (in that order)..

 

Not just eating itself, the shopping for ingredients, finding new ingredients, the preparation, the gadgets used for cooking. Everything about food basically.... Unfortunately not a lot of variety/choices in Perth, but enough to still be interesting I guess..

 

Stuck to a desk my weight is ballooning though..

My weight crept up in the years after i left the army. I was around 91 kilos when i left the army after 12 years service. 10 years later id ballooned to 112 kilos at my heaviest. Been on a healthy eating kick since last january and my weight has stabilised at 92 kilos again. I love food and my problem was i was eating the same amount as when i was doing Army P.T. every day plus my own running after hours.

Guilty as charge,

Lock me up with no parole...

The very reason I let the better 1/2 wear the pants cause I love to become a slave to women who can cook! It's up there as good as Sixs. . I am her lab rat for the trial and error in her kitchen, some of her cooking is better than a 5 star restaurant where you fork out megabucks. When you can stand there over the stove where she cooks and sample the food as it becomes ready is a real treat, yes I get told off but boy can I eat....

I will eat anything that's edible and if you let me a sniff a bit of grass I will eat the thing next to me because it will look delicious....

I will even try everything once, take durian for example, smells like a dead corps that says stay away but taste for the Kings and gods and goddesses... While I was in China, I had no idea what I was eating until I've downed it and then I ask! Definitely don't ask!

With fruit, my clients where some are my colleegue don't nick name me fruit bat for no reason, love fruit...

Don't mention seafood....I will bite the hand that feeds me if I don't get my share....

When I left UK in Oct 2001 I was 80Kg, 3 months later I was 90Kg.

 

I had stopped walking to work.

My wife and I are both lovers of food.  We both had mums that were avid cooks .We are vegetarians, almost vegan.

I am the main cook in the house and we always look forward to dinner time. Seems there are just not enough meal times to enjoy all the fantastic menus we have.

 

We grow most of our vegetables, the flavours cannot be compared to shop bought.

We love curries, rice dishes, pastas etc etc. home made pizza's ....the list is enormous.

 

We had my middle daughter and her family here for Xmas and she was so impressed with the flavours " Roast NON Beast " and vegetarian gravy that she too has adopted some "veggie" ideas.

 

She says we are just old hippies, but hey it's the best food we have ever had. I initially said yes to my wife doing some vegetarian dishes to please her, but now I do it for the flavours first, then the other benefits...saves heaps on the grocery bill too

I'm down do 85 kilos!

great read guys,

 

in todays news...researchers reveal the most addictive foods... before reading it try to think of what you find most addictive...and least addictive...

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/researchers-reveal-the-most-addictive-foods-20150224-13n2jo.html

 

 

should be no surprises really

Most addictive for me will be:

1/ duck fat

2/ pork lard

3/ butter

4/ eggs

 

Put the above in any thing and it'd just work. It really does talk a lot of self control to stop gouging the food.

 

Least addictive for me now (counter intuitively) would be salt. Too much of it somehow kills the flavour for me.

Food is one of the things that keeps gnawing at me. I'm desk bound all day, doesn't help, and I do very little exercise, but I love food.

 

I've often wondered about what it is that I like about it. I really enjoy cooking, baking, and making something that the family will enjoy. The odd thing with that is that generally the things they all enjoy aren't the things that I like so much. They're also very unadventurous, they'd eat the same thing on a two week turnaround menu for the rest of their lives.

 

But I like eating things. What has puzzled me is that often the thing that excites me is the part where the food enters my mouth and hits my tongue. Once it's in there, I find myself generally having a few chews and swallowing, so I can feel that next bite, that's what gets me.

 

I'm also a sucker for sweet things. As much as I'd like to say I have my lolly issues under control, I don't. Once a bag is opened, I smash them down, eating all the ones I don't like so much first (and in order i.e. all of the lemon ones, then all of the orange, then the green etc) and then cleaning up all the tasty ones at the end.

 

I've done one of those expensive diets where they pull your blood out and analyse it. By eating their prescribed just for me meals, I got down to 87kgs. But after looking at it, that wasn't anything to do with my blood, it was to do with the fact I was eating less than 3000kj a day.

 

I currently sway between 112 and 115kgs. That rolls between there over the course of three weeks. I don't like it. But I also struggle to find the motivation to do anything about it.

 

Maybe food is the emotional release for a rather unimaginative desk gig. I don't know.  

F.A.(not O.A.) is just another form of the same problem which is a mental obsessive disorder not an addiction. You can't physically be addicted to food as the body "needs" food.

 

The body doesn't  "need" alcohol or narcotics. Chronic use of alcohol/narcotics leads to a physical dependance often termed äddiction".

 

F.A. just switches one eating disorder for another. Having to weigh, measure document and discuss every morcel of food (like F.A. doees) is just as disordered as the reason you would join them.

Pecan tarts.

 

I have no power. None.

I currently sway between 112 and 115kgs. That rolls between there over the course of three weeks. I don't like it. But I also struggle to find the motivation to do anything about it.

 

Maybe food is the emotional release for a rather unimaginative desk gig. I don't know.  

Food is an emotional release for me too.. How tall are you? If you drink alcohol (e.g. beer) than plus the sweet stuffs it may well be over the limit.. IME I find sugar (be it cane sugar or artificial) is the ingredient that somehow allows me to keep eating.. 

 

Fat OTOH, is hugely satisfying and don't have the same effect - i.e. I can stop if I want to... And a little amount of fat goes a long way in terms of flavours. 

 

And for me personally, I find it's the stuffs I drink (soft drinks, alcohol, juices etc) that piles on the weight, not the eating itself...

 

So in a way, eating addiction or disorder is somewhat harmless for now...

 

 

F.A.(not O.A.) is just another form of the same problem which is a mental obsessive disorder not an addiction. You can't physically be addicted to food as the body "needs" food.

What's OA?

I just love food! I don't think I'm an addict, but I enjoy cooking, always with a beer in handy, or going out eat something... the list goes on. I'm lost when it comes to italian food. Went to Italy a few years back, man, what an enjoyment!

 

My wife decided to change our foods habit a bit, cut down on pasta, from 2 - 3 times a week to once a month or so, only homemade, increase the amount of meat, salads and fats.While I wasn't too thrilled at the beginning, it's not so bad. She also started baking sourdough bread a few years back, with excellent results. We don't stop to buy bread at the bakery at all.  Since I stopped riding a bike and must use the car for work these days, I try to take lunch from home with me and not get a doughnut or a tart while I'm passing by the bakers. And we get our eggs from our chooks in the back yard. And try and reduce the sugar, use honey instead. Unless I'm baking a birthday cake, in that case I go all the traditional way.

 

I'm amazed though how expensive food related stuff is here in Oz, the only thing that is comparatively cheap is beef. Which I don't mind really. But cheese and ham and such, forget it!

Here's a salad thing I make often.

 

1 large spanish onion.

3 tomatoes

3 or 4 fresh chillis (best to add them last, one at a time if unsure of how hot they are or how much you can stand)

2 cloves garlic - crushed

1/2 bunch continental parsley

lump of Greek fetta cheese

 

Just finely dice and mix in an appropriately sized bowl.

Food is an emotional release for me too.. How tall are you? If you drink alcohol (e.g. beer) than plus the sweet stuffs it may well be over the limit.. IME I find sugar (be it cane sugar or artificial) is the ingredient that somehow allows me to keep eating.. 

 

Fat OTOH, is hugely satisfying and don't have the same effect - i.e. I can stop if I want to... And a little amount of fat goes a long way in terms of flavours. 

 

And for me personally, I find it's the stuffs I drink (soft drinks, alcohol, juices etc) that piles on the weight, not the eating itself...

 

So in a way, eating addiction or disorder is somewhat harmless for now...

 

 

Myrantz, I'm 6'5". but even so I know that being as heavy as I am is not good for me. I don't drink anything other than water, and lots of coffee (both instant black, and properly brewed lattes). There's the occasional fizzy, but it's once a month at it's worst. 

 

I downloaded that app (FitnessPal) and banged in my intake for yesterday... 15000kj. I'm doing much better today, but the edge is only a handfull of lollies away. 

Myrantz, I'm 6'5". but even so I know that being as heavy as I am is not good for me. I don't drink anything other than water, and lots of coffee (both instant black, and properly brewed lattes). There's the occasional fizzy, but it's once a month at it's worst.

that's good for my books.. At 87 kg you'd be too thin by my books.. (Disclaimer: not professional advice)...

 

I downloaded that app (FitnessPal) and banged in my intake for yesterday... 15000kj. I'm doing much better today, but the edge is only a handfull of lollies away.

On average one just needs 2500 - 3500 calories a day... 15000 kilojoules is way too much.. Is that number correct? Maybe it's 15000 joules aka 15 kilojoules?

great read guys,

 

in todays news...researchers reveal the most addictive foods... before reading it try to think of what you find most addictive...and least addictive...

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/researchers-reveal-the-most-addictive-foods-20150224-13n2jo.html

 

 

should be no surprises really

Definitely no surprise here,

I will eat any pizza with mega topping on board, love the anchovies, olives, always order a special or the lot.....

I'm a chocoholic....I love the Rum and Raisin Dark chocolate, when I buy this, I buy it on special and I emptied the entire supermarket shelf, I kid you not!......

And right about now the supermarkets are stocking and selling hot cross buns, I can't get enough of those chocolate variety, they are addictive, I don't even put them in the oven,,,,,,once they get home they don't pass go, they go directly into my stomach, yep!

I just realised,

If I wasn't so addicted to food, I'd probably own a million dollar Hifi rig,......Damn! It's no wonder I can't afford boys toys or another women!

Myrantz, the app says 9169kj for the win, and I clocked up 15582. 

 

I do agree that it's too much, by a long shot, and I felt it all last night. 

You don't see many fat drunks around.

I have the opposite thing, a lack of interest in eating.

 

I'm at my heaviest now weighing 69kg, always averaged 67kg. Down to 169cm from 172cm, I'm getting fatter and shorter......what the hell!

 

Edit: Saying all that...I'm feeling just a little hungry at the moment.

 

Edited March 11, 201511 yr by ortofun

My wife and I are both lovers of food.  We both had mums that were avid cooks .We are vegetarians, almost vegan.

I am the main cook in the house and we always look forward to dinner time. Seems there are just not enough meal times to enjoy all the fantastic menus we have.

 

We grow most of our vegetables, the flavours cannot be compared to shop bought.

We love curries, rice dishes, pastas etc etc. home made pizza's ....the list is enormous.

 

We had my middle daughter and her family here for Xmas and she was so impressed with the flavours " Roast NON Beast " and vegetarian gravy that she too has adopted some "veggie" ideas.

 

She says we are just old hippies, but hey it's the best food we have ever had. I initially said yes to my wife doing some vegetarian dishes to please her, but now I do it for the flavours first, then the other benefits...saves heaps on the grocery bill too

 

Would love that recipe for my vegetarian lady boss if you have time to pm it. I usually do her a mushroom or caramelised onion gravy but haven't got any good ideas for a meat substitute.

 

Day 1,

 

That fishermans basket is $44

 

Day 2,

 

met this lady on a boat selling fresh cooked crabs for $7kg and cooked prawns for $20 she claim caught and cooked today, and if I wanted live ones, I have them now as well.  Total cost &15.00 for those 2 plates.   Where in Australia can you pay $15 for both thosre plates?????   Lake Enterence of course!

Edited March 17, 201510 yr by pchan