I have always been a good eater.
I rarely leave anything on my plate. Those poor starving children in China would never get a morsel from me. No way.
I always ate with gusto. Sometimes it seems that I am in an eating race. Just how fast can I scarf down that food? Hurry! Eat fast! Quick before my stomach could send a signal to my brain to tell me that I am full!
Or…hurry and eat what is on the plate before someone notices how much I can really eat.
Or…hurry and eat what is on the plate before someone notices how much I can really eat.
I don’t know why I eat so fast. I am not from a big family. I didn’t have to “fight” for my food, even though my Dad would at times snag from my plate what I would save for last to savor.
I know I should slow down. I try to. But there is a point when it is ridiculous. You know the type. They play with their food. They build moats with their mashed potatoes. They line up their peas into armies to fight off the carrots. The meat…I don’t know what they try to do with the meat. They saw it off into such tiny pieces that could be injected by a syringe instead of being chewed and swallowed.
Have you ever watched such a person? I have a friend who is a deathly slow eater. Each forkful that makes it into her mouth is an event. She will get some potato on her fork. Then tip it off. Then there will be a carrot that is speared. It starts to travel to her mouth…oh will it get there??? Then the fork will stop midway since she has a story to tell. Off comes the carrot. She cuts her chicken into a tiny enough piece that can be studied under a microscope. I doubt there is enough for the taste buds to detect. She pushes the cut chicken around creating some sort of art work. Back to the potatoes. She grabs just enough to say there is something on her fork…then…can it be?? SCORE!! It makes it into her mouth.
It takes her 10 minutes to chew the (MASHED) potatoes, before she decides to try to pick up more food.
What’s up with that? Is that so that she say “Look how much I ate! I ate 100 forkfuls!”
Are people like this crazy? One of my forkfuls is about 20 of someone who eats in this manner..
It takes them an hour to eat an appetizer. By then, I have eaten 12 courses, done the dishes and started cooking my next meal.
I say EAT!! Eat with GUSTO, eat like you ENJOY it, not like it is punishment. Especially if you are dieting. Enjoy each bite. And since I want to get every bit…I might even lick the plate ….or if eating with my sloth like friend, I might steal a bite from her if she is not watching. After all, stolen food has no calories, right??
Eons ago, when all my gf's were single we would go out to dinner once a month. We all had stories & gossip to tell to ea. other. Well, we arrived a restaurant at 8:00pm & didn't get out till 11:00, & STILL we had to get doggie bags cuz' we didn't finish. Talking trumped eating. The 1 w/the tamest month was the 1 who emptied her plate (also, the slower you eat the less appetizing the food becomes, it cools or whatever). At the time (90's) it was way cheaper than all nite 3 way call phone marathons.
ReplyDeleteSee... I would have eaten AND talked. I could not let a great meal go to waste. Next day left overs never as good...I would meet my friends at a coffee shop if I did not intend to eat my dinner!! :)
ReplyDeleteThough not as slow as your friend, I tend to be a very slow eater. I consume over a long period of time and I do like to savor. I certainly don't eat as much as I used to or so it seems, but I don't seem to lose any weight either. I think I just tend to eat more fattening things and avoid exercise and that's the real problem.
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Tossing It Out
No Sig I do not have such a friend that eats as slow as molassas. But I do have a friend that just eats very little. I'm sooo jealous that she complains she is "stuffed to the point of feeling sick" when I've eaten the same amount and only feel 1/2 satisfied. I guess that's why she's skinny and I'm not. Oy vey.
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