Personal Narrative: Break Up With Your Diet

Finding this healthy version of a common comfort food brought upon a feeling of freedom, something I hadn't felt in a while. Usually a burger and fries meal would have brought upon feelings of anxiety. When I first saw the meal approaching my table, those feelings of uncertainty began to arise. When the waiter placed

Ever since a young boy, I was known for my crazy eating habits. I had an abnormally large sweet tooth and stomach. There would be days I would eat a whole bag of candy and still have a taste for more sweets. I had a fairly thin physique with some muscle tone. Everybody told me that one day, I’ll become obese and regret all these “bad” decisions; I disregarded every comment and lived by the motto, “ As long as I don’t get fat, I’m fine.”

My actual intake is not what I expected it to be, I never thought I would be eating some of the foods that I am now eating because of this project. This project made me realize how poor my intake was from the first essay. I use to intake some of the unhealthiest food ever, I never realized how much harm I was doing to my body. Now, my intake is fair, I think I’m very much satisfied with the progress and changes I have made in my eating habits. Eating healthy is truly not that bad at all. I had to motivate myself to change my intake tremendously.

I can now return to my old habits without any guilt, except, I do not want to. This project has shown me the power of extremes. I do not want to continue with not eating any sweets, and yet I do not want to ignore what these five days have taught me. I want to find a moderation between the two. I want to compromise by balancing the mental endurance I gained from my

People’s ability to assess certain courses of action brings about two distinct paths: it either hinders the person’s ability to gauge their surroundings or it enables them to see and act based on a completely new perspective. It is our seemingly competent nature, as generalists, that has led to the rise of the phenomenon known as the “national eating disorder.” Skewing food culture and trend patterns, we have come to trust in our natural aptitude for survival as a way to pave our way through sustaining nourishment while coming into terms with the opportunity costs that accompany all of our decisions. There is something about food that grabs people; it is the individual tastes and textures, the unique stories of each and every ingredient that is used to make food, and the smell of spices that brings familiarity that

Eating food is usually one the easiest, best parts of your day right? It is at least for me. But for my brother is allergic to eggs, peanuts, and dairy, this makes one of the best parts of everyone’s day a struggle for him. When I saw him struggling or sad I would always nod along with empathy. But even though I would try to empathize, I did not really understand. So, I decided to go 4 days with eating under his restrictions.

Once, food had flavor, a unique and distinct taste that was never repetitive or boring.

The addiction I chose to write about this week is a food addiction/compulsive eating. A food addiction is obsessive-compulsive relationship people have with food. Eating food is both vital and important in our everyday lives to give our bodies the nutrients, vitamins and calories that it needs. “Compulsive overeating, also referred to as food addiction, is characterized by an obsessive-compulsive relationship to food” (Karim, 2012, p. 7, para. 2). When people overeat, they engage in episodes of uncontrolled eating and will often find themselves consuming so much food just to feel comfortably full. Compulsive overeaters usually eat even if they are not hungry. People who have a food addiction have excessive thoughts about food that consumes

My primary core belief as it pertains to eating is that I have no self-control. Even when I attempt to eat better my emotions such as stress, sadness, and fear, trigger me

I felt very defeated and overwhelmed by different life, school, and work stressors in my life. I realized that this was when I started to crave eating ice cream or some kind of comforting sugar-filled bread. I reached out to two support people and my sponsor to talk through the stressful occurrences. When having the first conversation with one of the people I find support in, I shared with them that I really wanted to just give up and go buy some ice cream. They were very empathetic and helpful during that conversation and I feel very grateful to have more than one person I can call in a time of stress. I also became aware that even though I felt the craving to buy ice cream and the feeling of defeat, I knew that I was not going to give into that temptation. I had the thought that I have come so far, and somewhere I knew I would probably not really enjoy the dessert. Becoming aware of this made me feel very strong and confident in continuing my abstinence

This paper is about the book “Mindless Eating” by Brian Wansink. This paper will contain a coversheet, an abstract, a discussion about the book, and a reference page. In this paper I will discuss several things. I will talk about the author and his research into eating and eating habits, the surprises that I had when reading about his research and the contents of the book, a discussion about what intrigued me, who I would recommend this book too, and whether or not reading this book may change the way I eat.

It was a normal ordinary day, or at least I thought it was. Didn’t have my homework, played my phone, talked to friends, it was all good. It was around 9 or 10 o'clock. Everyone was getting their snack out of their backpack, and of course I did too, I was flipping hungry! I brought in some tangerines, man did I love those. The teacher put on a little video while we ate. I decided not

I have been tracking the foods that I have been consuming, and have managed to start consuming an adequate amount of foods that weren’t in my diet like orange vegetables and legumes. The only barrier I have encountered is that I do not enjoy eating certain vegetables like carrots and green peas, But I have been trying out different ways to prepare them and have been trying to acquire a taste for

As I reach my last week of being abstinence from fried food it feels good. I feel as though I have not been thinking about it lately, smelling the food, or missing fried food as much. To see that I have made it this far, showed me that I am stronger then I think, and have a high quality of good discipline level. Over the past three weeks, it feels good to not eat fried food, the thoughts of think about it make me feel as though I would have made a mistake. Someday's I had thoughts about eating fried food, but I 've noticed I wasn't too hungry for it. This experienc help me control myself in all kinds of ways, and I can say I am proud of that.

house where several other families turn up. In total, there were six or seven kids my age. The parents were inside the house talking and eating food, while the kids played outside amongst each other. None of the kids are truly relevant to the story, therefore their personalities don't need much explanation. The layout of the outside was sloped down toward Lake Murray and had grass and rocks all around.