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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of thin people just don't have an emotional tie to food. Sometimes they forget to eat if they're preoccupied and they pretty much just eat whatever they want or whatever is in reach until their body says "enough". It's a food = fuel mentality and sometimes they'll just wait until they get to "E" before they fuel up again. [/quote]

Sort of, but as a naturally thin person, I would describe my relationship to food as very emotional. I eat to feel good and primarily to feel good. Meaning that when I'm hungry, if someone offers me something healthy but not delicious or satisfying on an emotional level, I won't want it. And since I know I can eat the burger with fries and it won't impact my appearance, I just eat that. It really is just kind of a pure relationship to food -- it's about hunger, but also joy and flavor. I am fortunate that I've never had to diet, but my main takeaway from being around people who do is that it is joyless. Even foods that make you happy also make you unhappy, because they are "bad" and you feel bad for eating them.

So it's not about emotion, it's about morality. I eat delicious food that I want to eat and I never feel like I'm being bad or breaking a rule. I'm just eating. There are no good foods or bad foods, there's just food I want to eat and food I don't want to eat. And if I eat something heavy and calorie-laden, I'm not a bad person who cheated or broke the rules. I'm just a person who enjoyed her meal. There is not moral implication.

But you are right that I sometimes forget to eat because I'm preoccupied. Though I don't think it has any impact on my weight for good or bad. If I forget to eat, I'm more likely to eat something really rich and heavy to compensate. So there's no diet advantage to it. It's just a bad habit (and makes me cranky).[/quote]

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