Grossed out by how much everyone around me eats

[jacee 183]

I am so disgusted by how much everyone eats now especially my boyfriend. Maybe I am just jealous, but I don't think so. I don't miss eating like that. But I do miss craving something. food is just not exciting now. I have to make myself eat, just because I know I have too.

[LifetimeLoser 208]

It is really disgusting how people eat. I even ate like that. Of course, I never noticed because I was too busy stuffing my face, shoveling over heaping spoonfuls into my gigantic mouth! Now, I have to sit there and chew slowly and observe everybody else eating the way I used to eat. I think, in general, most of the population swallows his or her food. We, as a whole, definitely do not practice mindful eating. I don't judge, but am thoroughly grossed out just the same.

[RJ'S/beginning 5,358]

I have too been stunned at how little we really need to eat to survive. I keep telling my husband to take smaller bites of food...and chew it....of course the man has been bone thin his whole life so what does he care....He replies do I look like I need to watch how I eat or how much.....grrrrrr

[cindymg 629]

I'm amazed also at how little it takes to satisfy me. Yesterday I had an Atkins "meal replacement" bar for lunch. Before my sleeve surgery, that would have been my dessert.

I too am horrified by watching how much people eat. I have a Weight Watchers friend who inhales her food in the time it takes everyone else to get served. But she maintains her 70 lb weight loss so who am I to judge?

[Bufflehead 6,358]

I get horrified watching other people eat too, but I think part of that is some people do eat a lot and really fast, and then many people eat in a normal way and it just seems horrifying to me because the way I eat is soooo different now. I was on vacation with my sister and her family this past weekend, and watching them shovel in whole platesful of food was disgusting . . . except they are actually quite normal eaters who don't overeat (all of them are easily in the normal BMI range), eat healthy food, and don't just cram food in their mouths. I know that rationally, but sitting down at a table with them still made me queasy sometimes.