It seems like a paradox, but something as simple as eating normally seems impossible for adults today. Something so natural for a child or for an animal, is a puzzle for many of the older ones.
Previously, people ate when they were hungry and stopped eating when they felt full. People who eat spontaneously are now rare. The obsession with organic products, with controlling calories, with reading the labels to know the content of each product, with trying magic injections that burn fat, with the dictatorship of diet or slimming pills, has relegated food normal to the disposable basket. Many have turned the need to eat into a problem: do I have the right to eat dessert? Should I eat meat or not? Could it be that a French fry makes me fat?
Not to mention shopping at the supermarket. It’s easier to get a degree in Chemistry than to decide whether it’s better to buy organic oranges or the ones next door that look the same but don’t have any particular name. Choosing a box of cornflakes becomes a dilemma when the question arises as to whether or not they will be made with genetically modified corn. If it is milk, you think about whether it is low-fat, fat-free, lactose-free, organic or other.
In short, you would have to take a course to know what to buy. More than a pleasure, the task of cooking can become a headache when there is an unhealthy indecision about almost everything: should I use sunflower, soy, peanut, olive or canola oil? Which one is the one they say clogs the arteries? Which one is used for the proper functioning of the heart? Sugar makes you fat, roasting meats causes cancer. Between margarine and butter, which is the best? Fried foods are a deadly sin, white wine has empty calories, but red wine contains antioxidants, and so on.
Eating with the brain The problem is that instead of choosing the food and the way to prepare it according to our wishes, we leave that work to the brain and that is where things get complicated. We don’t worry about it because it’s too expensive and we are happy to eat anything: soft drinks with sweeteners, zero percent fat yogurts that don’t satisfy us, liters of green tea even though we hate it, because in theory it is very healthy, five servings of fruit and vegetables a day because that’s what the experts say.
In short, the information that the media bombards us with daily has forced us to ignore the instinct that tells us what, how and when to eat, to dedicate ourselves to the search for the ideal diet that, by the way, does not exist. And, along the way, we lost the notion of the pleasure that food produces to turn this habit into torture. Individually, we all have a different attitude, but we succumb to many myths and contradictions that confuse us.
A revealing test To really know how and when to eat, and especially if you eat with your stomach or with your head, the exercise of answering the following questions can be very practical:
1. Some friends invite you to eat and you think: a. It must be a joke, they know I don’t like to eat. b. The holidays are here and I have to put on a bathing suit. c. I hope they make the risotto that fascinates me. d. What time?
2. For your birthday, you dream of being given: a. Crystal glasses and a leg of pata negra serrano ham. b. Vouchers to buy records and books. c. A ginger grater, a Cuisinart kitchen processor. d. A pair of plus size Diesel jeans, a Louis Vuitton bag.
3. Your fridge has been empty for more than a https://www.viki.com/users/anthonatticusi_gtjkc_780/about day, your family is desperate because there is nothing to eat, what do you do? a. Spaghetti with garlic and olive oil (everyone likes that). b. You order a sushi order over the phone (everyone loves sushi). c. You take a box of chocolate chip cookies out of the pantry and share them among everyone. d. You quickly make a soup and cook some brown rice (they’ll be welcome).
4. On Monday morning, as soon as you wake up, you think: a. What breakfast instead of the quinoa milk that is in the pantry? b. What diet food can I order in the restaurant at lunchtime? c. What should I eat before weighing myself? d. What do I order at lunch I have with my boss?
5. The chef you most admire is: a. Harry Sasson, the only one you know. b. The one from your favorite restaurant, which makes some sublime vegetables. c. The one in the restaurant across the street because he’s very handsome. d. The one at La Brasserie, because he not only prepares wonderful dishes and, among other things, you’ve been trying to get a reservation there for a week.
6. Foods that you are definitely not allowed to eat: a. The fries, the croissants, the sausages. b. The hamburgers, blurb.com the canned tuna and the cornflakes. c. Frozen vegetables, vacuum-packed meats, prepared meals. d. Any.
7. You see an obese woman eating a piece of cake and you think: 1. I must take care of myself, otherwise I will be like her very soon. 2. Thank God, there is justice! 3. She will get sick if she keeps eating like this. 4. How was she able to get to that weight?
8. Where do you do your shopping? a. Where the butcher, at the gourmet shop, where the cheese maker. b. By Internet. c. In organic markets, in naturalist stores and in the supermarket. d. A part in the yogurt section and the rest in the fruit and vegetable section.
9. A weight is for you: a. A device used by doctors. b. An instrument for weighing butter, sugar and flour. c. An instrument of torture. d. A collaborator.
10. Sitting at the table you stop eating: a. When you feel full. b. Only until you eat every last crumb. c. You think of the poor chicken flapping its wings before they kill it. d. When you’re still a little hungry.
11. Inside a plate of scalloped potatoes there are: 1. A calorie bomb. 2. A little garlic and fresh cream cheese. 3. A mixture of lipids and glucose, very bad for the arteries. https://www.demilked.com/author/muallelyxv/ 4. You have no idea.
12. During the meal your comments are: 1. Could it be that the President is going to allow the planting of transgenic corn? 2. How will Carolina Cruz do to be so skinny? 3. Who will be the chef at the Palacio de Narino? 4. What will the Party of the U be cooking?
13. Your man chose you for: 1. Your pate recipe and your voluptuous Monica Bellucci style. 2. Your zen spirit within a zen body. 3. Your slim spirit inside a big body. 4. Your elbows are pretty.
14. You arrive on vacation at a friend’s house and decide to bring them oysters . a. You wonder if the ones they sell on the corner are fresh. b. You enjoy telling diners how they are eaten on the Coast, with a very special spicy sauce. c. You pass by Carrefour, where they sell fresh and delicious fish and seafood. d. How wonderful! Oysters have zero calories and amounts of Omega 3.
15. You invited your boyfriend to dinner and you wonder: 1. Could it be that he likes my recipe for fish en papillote? 2. Will the wine I chose be okay? 3. Will he like Sofia’s food? (frozen). 4. Do I make my recipe for chicken in wine?
Results: Majority https://www.giantbomb.com/profile/sandirfilw/ “a”: You are an obsessive controller Your teacher? Hippocrates, the first to say: “You will make medicine out of your food”. You follow the provisions of the World Health Organization to the letter. You choose your menus as if they were a prescription from a homeopathic doctor. You read product labels and analyze the composition like a medical examiner. When you go to market you don’t think: “how wonderful!, there are fresh green beans”, but: “how good!, they have fiber”. Before the cheese your reaction is: “how much calcium intake will be necessary to prevent future osteoporosis?”. You do not think about how to season the chicken, but if it represents a healthy dose of protein. You only buy organic eggs to make parakeets and make sure the bottled water comes from a natural source.
What pleasure can you get from eating if you are obsessed with controlling everything? Eating with reason is fine, but you suffer from orthorexia and it causes you anxiety to eat anything that endangers your health.
Our advice: A little less head and try to renew the pleasure of using ‘the batteries’. Ahead! Make up your mind to eat some fries with sausage and a Coke tonight.
Majority “b”: You see calories everywhere Your teacher: Karl Lagerfeld: “Diet is the only game you dubnosqrcq.livejournal.com win when you lose.” And to lose a few kilos you would do anything. You see in food only a source of lipids and carbohydrates that make you fat and you consider that eating goes against your goal of never going over size 6. You have a photo of Adriana Arboleda stuck on your fridge along with a table of caloric equivalencies . In the supermarket you pass by the section of cheeses, desserts and charcuterie. You only stop at the one with legumes and the one with zero percent fat yogurts, which you buy by the dozen. In your social life, you avoid all invitations to eat. By dint of submitting to this dictatorial regime you completely lost the pleasure of sitting down to eat without feeling guilty.
Our advice: Deprogram yourself. No more diets, eat when your stomach tells you to. Let yourself be carried away by instinct, by what you like and you will see how it improves your physical and mental health.
Majority “c”: You worship good cooking Your teacher: Kendon Mac Donald, the food critic, who loves to see the fridge full. For you, chefs are a kind of demigods and cooking is a kind of religion. You do not see in a quality product neither the calories nor the toxins, but the fruit of a culture. This cult of good cooking complicates your life a bit, not to mention what it costs you. You are willing to take a plane to get those wonderful arepas they make in Medellin or travel to Cartagena to buy a Rosita Benedetti coconut pie. You spend hours in the kitchen intensely enjoying the experience of smells and flavors. Because of your behavior you are not exempt from danger. You are a compulsive food victim. You eat too much with your head, but also with your belly, which in the long term can mean a disturbing excess weight.
Majority “d”: You eat because it is necessary to live Your teacher is the waiter at El Rincon de Jairo restaurant, on the road to Anapoima, who shouts the menu of the day at the top of his lungs: arepas with cheese and a paisa tray. A can of tuna also works if there is nothing else in the pantry, or the sushi in the corner, even if it is not very fresh and you have to put a lot of soy. Mac Donald’s is also a good option. Two psychological states alternate in you: hunger and more hunger. You consider food as a fuel, you know nothing about diets, organic food or gastronomy. Within this schizophrenic society, you are a model of balance, because you definitely don’t care what you eat, even if it sometimes gets out of hand. But at least you save yourself the neurosis that many people suffer from these days.
