You are on a fucking intense diet, and I'm impressed you made it this far sticking to the programme. I couldn't and wouldn't have done it.
Now that most everyone has jobs and money, our lives do revolve a lot more around food than once they did, and not just food but fine food ... I'm a bit over it to be honest. Perhaps a really good dinner is better than sex (or whatever), but frankly, food is not the end to which I strive. At some point when you're cleaning the cabernet paste off your fingers in preparation for the Gran Marnier-soaked strawberries with goat's cheese, it does start to feel bathetically orgiastic.
I think you would feel worse if you had succumbed and broken with your regime, so you might have that with which to comfort yourself!
Perhaps you can console yourself with the little factoid that in the last 2 months while you lose 15kg or something I gained 4kg.
That's what I did when I was losing weight, but perhaps I'm more susceptible to schadenfreude than you...
Also, everyone's going to feel so guilty about making you watch them eat all this food, that when you're done, they're going to practically force feed it to you to salve their guilt ;) (Depending on the severity of the food attacks, this may actually be bad :P).
That is absolutely understandable! That is such a tough situation when you are trying so hard to stick to something for you.
I have never been on such a strong diet, but as I have a number of food allergies I often (on a smaller scale) have to sit and watch people eat food that I love. It is really tough, and that is nothing like the size of what you have described!!
Hang in there on this. You are going strong and in the middle of things.
You've got nerves of steel! Congrats on sticking to the plan.
I find I have widely varying reactions to being the only sober person (not that it happens often). Messing with drunk people's heads can sometimes be entertaining. OTOH, drinking doesn't always dispel feelings of isolation if I've gone out but just don't find myself in the mood once I get there.
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However I doubt you'd be enamoured with cellular and molecular neuroscience, alcohol or eclectic live music either.
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Now that most everyone has jobs and money, our lives do revolve a lot more around food than once they did, and not just food but fine food ... I'm a bit over it to be honest. Perhaps a really good dinner is better than sex (or whatever), but frankly, food is not the end to which I strive. At some point when you're cleaning the cabernet paste off your fingers in preparation for the Gran Marnier-soaked strawberries with goat's cheese, it does start to feel bathetically orgiastic.
I think you would feel worse if you had succumbed and broken with your regime, so you might have that with which to comfort yourself!
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That's what I did when I was losing weight, but perhaps I'm more susceptible to schadenfreude than you...
Also, everyone's going to feel so guilty about making you watch them eat all this food, that when you're done, they're going to practically force feed it to you to salve their guilt ;) (Depending on the severity of the food attacks, this may actually be bad :P).
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I have never been on such a strong diet, but as I have a number of food allergies I often (on a smaller scale) have to sit and watch people eat food that I love. It is really tough, and that is nothing like the size of what you have described!!
Hang in there on this. You are going strong and in the middle of things.
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I find I have widely varying reactions to being the only sober person (not that it happens often). Messing with drunk people's heads can sometimes be entertaining. OTOH, drinking doesn't always dispel feelings of isolation if I've gone out but just don't find myself in the mood once I get there.
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