anyone else not excited by food?

sennin

decides2dream wrote:

:eek: :eek:
our credit card gives us a year-end tally of expenditures of our charges into various categories. the restaurant tab is horrific! however, as mentioned...some of the BEST times of each year, spent in restaurants.....so, it's a-ok. i'd like to find more balance there, and we are working on it......but it's just SOOOOOO good!


man, we went somewhere new this past saturday, REALLY good.....2 bottles of very nice wine with dinner.......yikes! a GREAt night though!

Le Kliff in Mexico.....$$$$$.....and don't remember half of it!

http://www.lekliff.com/eng/theplace.php

justam

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I realize that on holidays or special occasions that involve food or going to a good restaurant or something, people get really excited about the food. And, when you think about it, ALL holidays, special occasions, most socializing, etc., is based on food! I just can't get into it. the only reason I enjoy going out to eat is getting out of the house. I think I am really weird in this respect, nobody ever seems to agree with me. Is there anyone else here who really could just take or leave home cooked holiday meals or doesn't have a "favorite restaurant"? The only time I really get into food is when I've been running like 10 miles and am really starving and the burrito place is nearby...

I'm getting a bit tired of having to cook dinner nearly every night of my life, but otherwise I still like it!!!!!

decides2dream

sennin wrote:

Le Kliff in Mexico.....$$$$$.....and don't remember half of it!

http://www.lekliff.com/eng/theplace.php

sounds like a GREAT night!


and that place looks spectacular!



hubby and i tried out the most fantastic new mexicn place near us, oddly enough right near our usual fave mex place ...on new year's day. fantastico! food was sooooo good, sooooooooo fresh! bit pricey, so definitely more a 'special occasion' place, but soooo yummm! think we'll be hitting it up in march for my sister's birthday. it'll be my usggestion anyway.

much of life's best memories are around a table...somewhere......:Dthe day i am not excited by food....drink.....intimate contact.....is the day the coroner declares me dead.

sennin

decides2dream wrote:

sounds like a GREAT night!

and that place looks spectacular!

hubby and i tried out the most fantastic new mexicn place near us, oddly enough right near our usual fave mex place ...on new year's day. fantastico! food was sooooo good, sooooooooo fresh! bit pricey, so definitely more a 'special occasion' place, but soooo yummm! think we'll be hitting it up in march for my sister's birthday. it'll be my usggestion anyway.

much of life's best memories are around a table...somewhere......:Dthe day i am not excited by food....drink.....intimate contact.....is the day the coroner declares me dead.

I'm hungry!

Dinner and a movie tonight! Going to see Juno....at a place called the Big Picture! Full bar and popcorn in champagne buckets!

PJaddicted

I love food! We eat out some place nice almost every weekend, I cook 5 nights a week for my boys, and one night we do some sort of take out.

oxc

GreenTeaDisease

I guess I feel like food never lives up to the anticipation.

sennin

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I guess I feel like food never lives up to the anticipation.

Wahh.

_Crazy_Mary_

I love food! I read cooking magazines all the time. Cooks Country & Cooking Illustrated are my favorites.
Just tonight for dinner I made roast tri-tip with pan roasted green beans. Last week we made sesame seed encrusted seared Ahi with short grain brown rice and a wilted spinach salad with lemon vinaigrette.
We sit down to dinner probably only 3 nights a week, which stinks, but I still love cooking. And baking.

Allie

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I realize that on holidays or special occasions that involve food or going to a good restaurant or something, people get really excited about the food. And, when you think about it, ALL holidays, special occasions, most socializing, etc., is based on food! I just can't get into it. the only reason I enjoy going out to eat is getting out of the house. I think I am really weird in this respect, nobody ever seems to agree with me. Is there anyone else here who really could just take or leave home cooked holiday meals or doesn't have a "favorite restaurant"? The only time I really get into food is when I've been running like 10 miles and am really starving and the burrito place is nearby...

Not loved home cooked food? No fave restaurant? Good God. Good food is one of the reasons for living I Loooooove food. Few things in life make me happier than eating.

smg9779

One of my good friends used to say, "if there was a little pill I could take to get rid of my hunger I would do it." Basically he was commenting on how eating anything just didn't do it for him, though he was clinically depressed at the time. Not sure how he feels about food now.

decides2dream

thanks to this thread and all the food talk here yesterday, hubby and i went out to our fave italian place last night and had a GREAt meal.

GreenTeaDisease

Allie wrote:

Not loved home cooked food? No fave restaurant? Good God. Good food is one of the reasons for living I Loooooove food. Few things in life make me happier than eating.

you're supposed to really like food to be thin, that's what intuitive eating is all about. contrary to popular believe most thin people like food and most fat people don't. I like food less for the actual taste but more for what I feel like my body needs. like sometimes even though I'm not a sweets person, I feel I need a little sugar (sunday night I had a chocolate crepe for dinner which is highly unusual for me) or sometimes I feel like I need fat so I eat cheese. sometimes I feel like I need vitamins so I eat vegetables. it's when I DON'T really feel like I need anything that eating becomes a pain, and since I eat a well-balanced diet, I don't often feel like I need anything. As I mentioned earlier, food is best when you feel like you deserve it.

decides2dream

MOST people i know....fat and thin, everything inbetween........love food! tis the rare person i personally know who doesn't truly enjoy food, and the one i do know - my mom - she is thin. i don't think it cuts clearly across fat/thin lines at all.

GreenTeaDisease

decides2dream wrote:

MOST people i know....fat and thin, everything inbetween........love food! tis the rare person i personally know who doesn't truly enjoy food, and the one i do know - my mom - she is thin. i don't think it cuts clearly across fat/thin lines at all.

well this book I read over the summer says that you have to really like food to eat properly. people who are truly intuitive eaters (and these people are by far generally thin) eat what they like and not what they don't. the book says that fat people have gone their whole lives being told what to eat and what not to eat so they rarely even know what they actually like. the nutritionists who wrote the book said that when clients come in the first thing they ask people is what they like to eat, and obese people often cannot answer (no one's ever asked them before).

I guess I really do love to eat ice cream. but I need vast quantities of it (like I usually need to eat a whole pint) to be satisfied, so I rarely eat it. if I eat just a small amount it's just disappointing again. I love ice cream because of how it feels going down and how it refreshes and cleanses your palate of all the after tastes you've had.

decides2dream

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

well this book I read over the summer says that you have to really like food to eat properly. people who are truly intuitive eaters (and these people are by far generally thin) eat what they like and not what they don't. the book says that fat people have gone their whole lives being told what to eat and what not to eat so they rarely even know what they actually like. the nutritionists who wrote the book said that when clients come in the first thing they ask people is what they like to eat, and obese people often cannot answer (no one's ever asked them before).

i agree with the part i bolded, the rest...not so much. not all fat people have had *bad* experiences with food, and i know plenty who know eaxctly what they like and don't like. plenty of fat people didn't grow up fat, but got fat older...so no bad childhood memories, etc. and there are plenty of people who were fat kids and got themselves over it as adults once they took control of their own lives and eating...and yes.....still love food! as we all know, there are all types of bodies and all types of eaters, etc. some people are simply naturally heavy, yet eat *healthy*...and so on. sure, some fat people ARe exactly as the book describes, but i know thin people who eat terribly and stay thin, etc. hell, i used to be one of those. i just think there is no clear-cut delineation in eating habits between fat and thin people, that's all.

GreenTeaDisease

decides2dream wrote:

i agree with the part i bolded, the rest...not so much. not all fat people have had *bad* experiences with food, and i know plenty who know eaxctly what they like and don't like. plenty of fat people didn't grow up fat, but got fat older...so no bad childhood memories, etc. and there are plenty of people who were fat kids and got themselves over it as adults once they took control of their own lives and eating...and yes.....still love food! as we all know, there are all types of bodies and all types of eaters, etc. some people are simply naturally heavy, yet eat *healthy*...and so on. sure, some fat people ARe exactly as the book describes, but i know thin people who eat terribly and stay thin, etc. hell, i used to be one of those. i just think there is no clear-cut delineation in eating habits between fat and thin people, that's all.

I didn't say ALL, I'm just saying it's a misconception to think that all fat people really love food, and I am also saying that not liking food can be worse for you than liking food. not knowing what you like or really loving food can lead to bad eating habits. your interpretation was not what I meant.

chiquimonkey

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I didn't say ALL, I'm just saying it's a misconception to think that all fat people really love food, and I am also saying that not liking food can be worse for you than liking food. not knowing what you like or really loving food can lead to bad eating habits.

maybe some don't, i do though hahaa

PJaddicted

Just a question....do you think people who enjoy food and plan celebrations around it, are the ones who really enjoy life to its fullest? I think of my mom when asking this question....she is a FOODIE. She is thin and fit for 71, and totally loves and enjoys life, lives in the moment since losing my dad. She is always planning her next meal. Always in a good mood! She is a fabulous cook too. When we were kids she would have her friends over for "gracious living" parties, dispite having little money. My parents just seemed to live life to the fullest. So much of our lives were centered around celebrations that always involved great meals. Right now she is in FL with her boyfriend, having driven and eaten all the way down there, visiting friends along the way....having a great time she tells me, also discribing every single meal! Sooooo funny! I just love her! What does everyone think?

oxc

MattCameronKicksButt

I get excited by salami.

decides2dream

PJaddicted wrote:

Just a question....do you think people who enjoy food and plan celebrations around it, are the ones who really enjoy life to its fullest? I think of my mom when asking this question....she is a FOODIE. She is thin and fit for 71, and totally loves and enjoys life, lives in the moment since losing my dad. She is always planning her next meal. Always in a good mood! She is a fabulous cook too. When we were kids she would have her friends over for "gracious living" parties, dispite having little money. My parents just seemed to live life to the fullest. So much of our lives were centered around celebrations that always involved great meals. Right now she is in FL with her boyfriend, having driven and eaten all the way down there, visiting friends along the way....having a great time she tells me, also discribing every single meal! Sooooo funny! I just love her! What does everyone think?

oxc

that's a GREAT question/point!
overall, i'd agree. however, my mother is soooo NOT a foodie, and she definitely LOVES life, and a great party! so while i think overall, for most....a love of food = a love of life, i think some can merely have a real zest for life too, all on it's own, even if oftentimes it does go hand in hand. i will say, my mom LOVES the *social aspect* of gathering together for a meal....and she loves to drink ....so that may help.