I have a few…interesting eating habits. For a long time in my first few years of college I was very food insecure. I didn’t have enough money for groceries so I had to get food from the food pantry. I developed a habit of eating as much as I could whenever I could because most of the time I had no idea when I would be eating next. I ended up gaining a lot of weight. Eventually I got a meal plan which was such a relief for me because now I do not have to wonder when I am getting food next.
After a while I tried fasting. Fasting for me was very effective…at first. In my very first month and a half of fasting, doing one meal a day, I lost 23 pounds, which felt really good, but then I stared to level off, I started to encounter what economists call “diminishing marginal utility,” a concept in economics that says the more you buy a product the less useful and satisfying it becomes. This is what happened to me with fasting, it worked really well the first few months but then I stopped getting results because my body had gotten used to it.
I stopped fasting for a whole summer, but now I’m going to try fasting again now that my metabolism has rested a bit and so far it is going really really well. I have a very healthy apatite every day, I do not feel anxious about food, and I am extremely grateful for every single meal and I think that is very healthy not just for your body but for your mind to be grateful for every meal. I love food, I am very grateful for food but I don’t live to eat because I think that is disrespectful to the food in, my opinion. I never want to take food for granted but it would also make me really happy to go to a Michelin star restaurant and eat their food once or twice in my life.
I would say that my whole food philosophy is about gratitude. I have nothing against eating animals for example as long as you appreciate the fact that they were real creatures that died so that you can eat them. I don’t like euphemisms that we use for meat, like pork or beef, and I really like to know where food comes from because that contributes to the feeling of gratitude for all the hard work and money and time spent making it.
The image is a picture that I painted with coffee. It was the only nice looking image I had on my computer.