I know I’ve missed a couple days but it hasn’t been from lack of trying. I’ve tried to write and then got lost in editing a couple times when trying to get down my thoughts on food. The posts and my thoughts have been a jumbled mess on the subject. So I’m going back to bullet points to organize the chaos
-I love food. I like a lot of healthy-ish food but I love a lot of garbage (processed foods, cheese, anything that can be made in an air fryer, cheese, all the carbs, cheese. Also, I’m not sure if I mentioned cheese enough but I’ll add cheese to pretty much anything.)
-I have the capacity to eat an insane amount of food. Not necessarily competitive eater amounts of food but much, much more than proper servings.
-I live alone and making proper servings based on meals for one is very hard. I love to cook and bake so I often end up with way too much food just based on the joy I have at the activity to make it.
-Food waste guilt then kicks in and my options are throwing away perfectly good food or eating like a glutton to finish it all. I end up eating leftovers that I’m not even enjoying anymore more than I care to admit.
-This leads to additional overeating as I sometimes augment those meals with something I am actually enjoying.
-When I had all of my success in 2012-2014 I spent a lot of time thinking about all the foods I could go back to eating when I was fit. Well, I gradually made my way back to them in moderation but it wasn’t long until I was just eating whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.
I guess that covers most of the issues. Eating the wrong things, eating way too much of them, and eating them for the wrong reasons. The optimist in me knows that I’ve dealt with the issue before and, generally, I know how I have to deal with them again.