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It was brought to my attention that I have strange eating habits. I wanted to know if any of you noticed, or have been notified of the following unusual eating characteristics:


1) You appear to eat a lot (possibly gross amounts) of food, especially in single sittings. However, your caloric intake is proportionate to your weight and physical fitness level, and everything you eat is purposeful.

When I was Keto cutting, some of my meals included...

-6 or 7 McDoubles, plain, no bun.
-Taco 12 pack, all contents of shell/tortilla emptied into a bowl and the shell/tortillas discarded.
-5 Egg scrambles, with heavy cream and butter. 4 Bacon strips, un-drained, poured over whole broccoli tree.
-Hand full of pre-cooked spinach, 3 eggs, 1/4 block of cream cheese.
-Coconut milk, unsweetened and flavored, by the liter for breakfast.

2) You appear to eat at abnormal pace in or out of social interaction.

I tend to eat very fast compared to other people except when im intentionally monitoring and pacing other eaters. I will usually eat my whole meal over the course of a 7-10 min Youtube video at the quantities mentioned above.

3) You eat your food in "order", or you desire "order" in your foodstuffs.

This, I dunno, maybe its OCD or something. I have to eat my meal in order. When I eat out of a bowl, I have to divide the bowl into equal parts and eat it section by section. If the meal has multiple parts, I have to eat the parts individually. I dont like most "sauces".

This is why I love pizza, except when the pizza is not cut accurately, usually causing more than 2 straight edges. The proportion of the pizza slice is of no consequence to me, but I cannot stand a pizza slice that has more than 2 straight edges... (whopps, that's a tangent) but let's say im eating a meal with...



Sorta a tangent... what you you guys do about alcohol? I LOVE alcohol, but I admit, it changes me as a person. I probably go from the InTJ range to EsFP/IsFP fairly quick. I kinda like the progression there, except when we reach the cheap Russian vodka phase.
 
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1) No. I eat complex carbohydrates and protein. No fried food, no simple carbohydrates, barely any sugar. I avoid cream and butter.
2) Certainly not. It takes me anywhere from 50 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete a meal.
3) Yes. The order thing can make others look suspicious of me.

As for alcohol, I like Jagermeister and absinthe (not together). When I go drinking, I don't fuck around. I go straight for that.
 
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1. I eat a normal amount of food. I actually used to eat less than normal. My dies is fairly high-protein, and I'm trying to go easy on the carbs.
2. Abnormal, yes, but I eat slower than most people. Unless my meal is time-sensitive in some way, I tend to eat sort of meditatively.
3. I eat in an order, I suppose. If the meal is served as separate dishes instead of, say, a stew or something, I don't like things to touch on my plate. I eat my meat with occasional bites of the carby stuff, then my veggies.

I don't know how much of a pattern you'll find. I have one INTJ friend, and the way we approach food is night and day.

Right this instant I'm sipping something like a Moscow Mule, but instead of just a little lime juice I used a whole lime. I also added a little grenadine, so it's really sour and kinda pretty.

I don't think it drastically changes me. As I get tipsy I get a bit less uptight. Like, literally I can feel my PC muscles unclench. :laughing: I don't think or act much differently, though. I'm still me, except... you know, more drunk. Slurring my speech and stuff, or maybe I'll feel a little more comfortable flirting with the waitress, though I don't really go to bars.
 
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1. The hell. That sounds pain-inducing. How can you move?

I mean, I do eat a lot - and a lot of the stuff that I eat is bad but I am working on that. Slowly. I never eat gross-amounts in a single sitting. I am more of a 'picker,' as in I prefer to eat small things throughout the day as opposed to eating three meals. According to my doctor that's actually better for you since humans weren't necessarily designed to eat only at certain times of the day and it's better just to eat when you're hungry - and that's what I did anyways, so I still do that... even though I do have to eat when my parents say so. Oh well.

2. It depends on what I am eating, and how hungry I am. If it's something that I hate I will eat it a little faster to get rid of it, whereas something I like I will savor and take my time with. If I'm hungry, though, I'll eat super fast... not hungry, I'll eat slower, etc. The pace doesn't really change in/out of social situations, at least not that I have noticed. I'll have to look out for that.

3. Well, I like single-ingredient foods, if that's what you mean. I don't like most soups/stews because every spoonful contains more than one ingredient and it sort of creeps me out. I'll pick out stuff usually and eat X first and Y second. When my mother makes chicken soup I'll strain out the crap and just eat the broth over rice - it's a lot better that way, where I get all the flavor but I don't eat the crap.

I do the same thing - sort of - with things like Chex mix, eating one ingredient first before moving to the next one. Corn Chex come last.
 
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FlaylexFayte said:
3. Well, I like single-ingredient foods, if that's what you mean. I don't like most soups/stews because every spoonful contains more than one ingredient and it sort of creeps me out. I'll pick out stuff usually and eat X first and Y second. When my mother makes chicken soup I'll strain out the crap and just eat the broth over rice - it's a lot better that way, where I get all the flavor but I don't eat the crap.

I do the same thing - sort of - with things like Chex mix, eating one ingredient first before moving to the next one. Corn Chex come last.
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HAHAHA, YES!

When I eat Progresso chicken soup I always pick out the bits of chicken first, as many as I can fit on the spoon. Then I pick out all the carrots, as many as I can fit on the spoon. Then... when its just pasts and brother left... im careful to take only one piece of pasta per spoonful. Usually, using this method, you run out of broth at the same time you run out of noodles.

I do the exact same thing with Chex mix.... *SMH*

Top left, bottom middle, bottom right, bottom left. Discard pretzels. I also eat the broken pieces first, before the intact, or mostly intact ones.

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@Friday

I eat Campbell's chicken soup, no carrots. But I do pick out the chicken first, then I eat the noodles - I don't care too much about leaving the broth left because I like to drink it at the end.

I don't get Chex Mix anymore because I dislike the pretzels - there are way too many. When I used to get them, though, I'd eat the pretzels first, then those little long stick things, then the dark pretzels, then the dark bread things, light bread things, then the corn Chex. From worst to best.
 
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I love pretzels. They're my #2 in Munchies, right after Cheetos.

I find that weird, now that I think of it: the priority I give to individual snacks in Munchies is not the same as when I'm choosing which individual snack to buy. In Munchies it goes:
  1. Cheetos
  2. Rold Gold
  3. Sun Chips
  4. Doritos

In any other situation, I'd pick Doritos over Cheetos, and I'd never pick Sun Chips.

I swear I'm not high right now. Maybe the vodka does more than I'd thought.
 
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With regards to myself, none of this is OCD. I'm certain of this. It's merely a collection (or result) of very, very strange quirks that I had in childhood and somehow never outgrew.

1. Only if I've forgotten to eat the entire day.

2. Yes, and I do precisely this re: Youtube. When I was younger, I'd insist on eating while standing. Eating a formal meal at a table used to cause me a bit of anxiety.

3. I prefer to eat one thing on my plate after another, because it seems "wrong" to eat at each thing at the same time. Apparently this is extremely noticable; people I know will often comment on this if we go out.

M&Ms or Skittles have to be ordered by color before I eat them. There are never enough reds, and that bothers me. In fact, it bothered me so much that I simply stopped eating them.

Certain food concepts annoy me. For example, I loathe ice-cream cake just because it's ice-cream "shaped like a cake," and therefore is described as cake. But it's still ice cream. It'd be like moulding it into a fish shape and saying that, now, I have a fish dinner. It's still ice-cream!
 
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Action Potential said:
3. I prefer to eat one thing on my plate after another, because it seems "wrong" to eat at each thing at the same time. Apparently this is extremely noticable; people I know will often comment on this if we go out.
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I guess we do eat in order. I do the same. I don't like mixing different foods. I try to eat as simple meals as possible - with not much than 3 to 4 ingredients and I don't like to mix them. I usually start with one type and after I'm finish with it, I go to the other.

I don't like to east soups too and I eat them rare and often I eat only the stuff that I like.
 
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Do you guys think this has to do with collection of data and the purity and genuineness of taking samples? Do we develop an arbitrary order in which to eat and/or segregate and/or organize food? This seems purely subjective, because not all of us choose to not eat the red M&M (I actually dont like the brown ones, and once blue made it into the mix, I quit eating M&M's all together) but it does seem we all have this strange tendency.

I actually hate it when my food mixes with other parts of the dish. I love Asian cuisine because they serve you every piece in a different bowl. I dont like Western plating practices where everything is on one plate, and everything if touching everything else. When my mashed potatoes w/ gravy is touching a tossed salad w/ dressing that just blows my mind. I'll actually eat all around the affected area.
 
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FlaylexFayte said:
I don't get Chex Mix anymore because I dislike the pretzels - there are way too many. When I used to get them, though, I'd eat the pretzels first, then those little long stick things, then the dark pretzels, then the dark bread things, light bread things, then the corn Chex. From worst to best.
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Why do they always put so many of the wrong things in those? =P

Anyway, I don't do it a lot now but when I was younger I always had that "best for last" mentality when eating. I still analyze my plate like that but more than half of the time I don't comply.

I also tend to just eat faster than most people, even when taking my time to chew properly.

Today when we ate, two of the things we had were squash and flour bread on the side. Squash tends to be really wet and even though I was going to dip the bread anyway, it was driving me nuts seeing the juice run toward it. I hate when the juices of other foods get in other stuff, even if it complements it.
 
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chill.take.over said:
Why do they always put so many of the wrong things in those? =P
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Two theories:

1. Pretzels are a pretty common "party food" and they assume that, if you don't like anything else in the bag, at least you'll have pretzels.

2. The company knows that everyone freaking hates pretzels, so they put 80% pretzels and 20% everything else. That way, you only get a little bit of the good stuff prompting you to buy another bag to get more of it.
 
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1- I eat steak daily, and I don't believe that dietary fat is bad for my health.

2- I prefer to eat while watching the tv, because I hate the sound of chewing.

3- I'm on the Anabolic diet (high fat, moderate protein, low carb).

4- I'm picky:-

-I don't eat raw tomatoes(but I eat cooked tomatoes).

-I don't like olives(but I love olive oil).

-Eggs: egg white cooked, yolk raw.
 
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I have eaten the same sort of food for years, simply a well seasoned steak well seasoned, left to rest on a plate to drain off juice, then moved to another plate. Only eaten with a sterling fork and the special steak knife (I have no idea what will happen when that knife gives out). Salad comes and goes, if eaten along with the meat. When I am feeling daring, I might have another veg or really daring, a stir fry of some sorts but that is only several times a year.
But...and this might be more of a fetish...I do have a thing for a well created, traditional decorated cake, not the type being made now but one with scallops, poufs, roses and such. But this is more of a food porn thing. I don't eat it. I can sit and look at the sculptured butter creme for sometimes an hour. Cake so decorated normally will end up tossed away due to staleness, with no eating at all but lots of staring. But get me around all those poufs and scalloped bits, especially if they were made with a ridged pipe and have all those grooves and creases from the sawtooth edge of the pipping bag, wow, a visual delight. I won't allow myself to go into a bakery, as I will leave eventually, almost in a trance. If I finally decide I will eat some of the cake...the pouf or rose will be carefully removed and put on another plate, the plain part of the frosting scraped off and tossed, and just the cake eaten with the pouf/rose as the final bite. But that's not very often as I have found that the sculpture delights my eyes, but the taste is rather blech and frostings are not at all healthy, what with the fats, sugars and colorings used. But for me, if they are well created, hypnotic. I even took several courses in cake decorating so that I could create them at home. Makes me wonder if this is an Se 'leak.'
 
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I used to have the tendency to eat always the same things. Only recently did I ever "dare" to create multiple menus from the same establishment. The only cake I dont mind eating is chocolate cake with no frosting. I HATE frosting. lol. I like glazed donuts, but just plain glaze. I dont like it when the glaze to donut ratio is too lean or rich either.

I probably only started to venture into strange food territory 5 or 6 years ago.
 
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I think my attitude toward food is a little different due to my upbringing. Over half my family is Filipino, and they just love all kinds of food. It's a passion that's shared. At every family gathering there's awesome stuff to eat. They tend toward a lot of other kinds of Asian cuisines - Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian, etc., but variety is very much encouraged. The Filipino take on Western food is interesting. Their version of spaghetti sauce is almost more like ketchup with hot dog slices. It's really gross, actually.

Basically I was raised to appreciate and enjoy food, because of its symbolic meaning: they feed you because they love you; giving large portions is a sort of status symbol (Like, "Eat lots! I can afford it because I'm successful."); the variety thing is also interesting because as a culture Filipinos are very accepting of other cultures, and condone interracial marriages.
 
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To me, food has always been something that I have to "figure out." For example, I am interested in the right amounts of certain foods that should be eaten more than looking for taste. So if I know that I should eat vegetables, fruit, protein, etc., I'm going to try to find something to meet that need. I will eat beans from a can or anything easy like that just to make sure that I am sustained so that I can spend my time doing more important things. I hate cooking and cleaning dishes, but I will cook for others if I have to. I never cook for myself, preferring to get take out or easy grocery items you can eat raw or from a container.

Also, I have read about the debates about eating meat and other products and researching this has been a long-time interest for me. I think that I enjoy learning about food/human body more than I enjoy eating. I once read an article about a person that had figured out a drink mixture that met all of our nutritional needs and that she was drinking that instead of eating. I thought that this was genius because then she didn't have to waste any of her time figure out what to eat. I lost interest in this when I read that doing this can have the side effect of hair loss, but I am still interested in figuring out the best was to get sustenance with as little time and effort as possible while still remaining healthy.
 
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1. No.
2. Yes. It's funny when I think about it.
3. Yes! I absolutely have to eat in order-I can't have things touching, either. Usually it goes vegetable-side-main dish.
 
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