Food, Greed and Fat
Six weeks ago I started a diet to reduce my weight from 63kgs to 50kgs. As of today, I've lost some kilos and am down to 58kgs.
Here's the interesting thing: I now eat only two meals a day, breakfast and lunch. The only food that goes down my throat all day is an orange, a poached egg and muffin, ham sandwich and a pear. That's it and I'm not hungry. Why?
Previously, I had a big breakfast, lunch, dinner and lots of food in between. While I wasn't fat, it was obvious a little weight loss would be beneficial if only so I didn't have to buy new clothes.
Over the years I've had a raft of friends and acquaintances who loved to freeload - they had their hand in my pocket and wanted me to pay every time that we ate out. And all this culminated in my Neighbour from Hell who constantly wanted me to provide her with take-aways and dine outs and then became upset when I called a stop to it. You can read about her in my earlier blogs.
Hang on and you'll see where I'm going with this: it seems our bodies do not need very much to survive and yet food is one of the main motivating factors in greed and taking advantage of people. Folk who may never steal from you will happily make you pay for their dining out experience, over and over again. There is obviously some extra pleasure when someone else pays for your restaurant meals - I wouldn't know because it rarely happens for me because I almost always pay my share.
This is behaviour of the lowest basic instinct. The Neighbour from Hell would justify her actions as follows, "I need to preserve myself and reproduce, so I must have a lot of food. I don't want to die of starvation. Being a basic animal, the fact that I live in Australia and could hardly starve with Australia's social security system means nothing. I must eat and continue to eat and take from others to benefit myself". This woman actually kept a score of how many meals had been provided for her and told me I was "way ahead". Why bother when she was loathe to let me even have even a cup of coffee.
The love of money may be the root of all evil, but it's the love for food and the irrational desire to eat more than we need that's at the root of fat and greed - especially if you can get someone else to pay for it!
Here's the interesting thing: I now eat only two meals a day, breakfast and lunch. The only food that goes down my throat all day is an orange, a poached egg and muffin, ham sandwich and a pear. That's it and I'm not hungry. Why?
Previously, I had a big breakfast, lunch, dinner and lots of food in between. While I wasn't fat, it was obvious a little weight loss would be beneficial if only so I didn't have to buy new clothes.
Over the years I've had a raft of friends and acquaintances who loved to freeload - they had their hand in my pocket and wanted me to pay every time that we ate out. And all this culminated in my Neighbour from Hell who constantly wanted me to provide her with take-aways and dine outs and then became upset when I called a stop to it. You can read about her in my earlier blogs.
Hang on and you'll see where I'm going with this: it seems our bodies do not need very much to survive and yet food is one of the main motivating factors in greed and taking advantage of people. Folk who may never steal from you will happily make you pay for their dining out experience, over and over again. There is obviously some extra pleasure when someone else pays for your restaurant meals - I wouldn't know because it rarely happens for me because I almost always pay my share.
This is behaviour of the lowest basic instinct. The Neighbour from Hell would justify her actions as follows, "I need to preserve myself and reproduce, so I must have a lot of food. I don't want to die of starvation. Being a basic animal, the fact that I live in Australia and could hardly starve with Australia's social security system means nothing. I must eat and continue to eat and take from others to benefit myself". This woman actually kept a score of how many meals had been provided for her and told me I was "way ahead". Why bother when she was loathe to let me even have even a cup of coffee.
The love of money may be the root of all evil, but it's the love for food and the irrational desire to eat more than we need that's at the root of fat and greed - especially if you can get someone else to pay for it!
posted by Jacqueline Smith at 3:19 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Jacqueline, thanks for taking the time to comment on my blog.
I'm a little concerned about the way you've changed your eating habits. I'm not saying there's anything wrong in wanting to lose a few kilos, but primarily you should focus on being healthy rather than necessarily slim. If you make sure that your food intake is rich in vegetables and fruit then your body will settle at it's natural weight, and you will feel better, have better skin, hair, blood circulation etc.
Food is not just about calories and energy, it's also about nutrition.
There's a drive in the UK to say that people should be eating at least 5 portions of fruit and veg per day. I've heard that in Australia they recommend 7 portions - 2 fruit and 5 veg (potatoes don't count, by the way).
Anyway, hope this is of some use and that you take the time to visit again.
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