Are You Ashamed Of Eating In Front of People?

Competitive Eater "Badlands" Booker is never embarrassed about Eating big! Love the helmet, he's gonna need it for that burger!

Competitive Eater "Badlands" Booker is never embarrassed about Eating big! Love the helmet, he's gonna need it for that burger!

A friend of mine related a rather embarrassing but revealing story about eating habits the other day.

She was telling us about a barbecue she has just attended, the host was a large woman (around 300 pounds), we’ll call her “Tracey”

Anyway, Tracey wouldn’t eat much at dinner and weighed all of her food, and avoided salad dressing and seemed to have a very strict almost obsessive diet.

This would make anyone wonder how she could be pushing a 300 pound bodyweight if this is really how she eats.

No big deal so far. So here is where the embarrassing part comes in.

Just after the barbecue ended and everyone left my friend realized she had forgot her purse and went back to pick it up. When she walked into the backyard she found Tracey 4/5th’s of the way through an entire apple pie!

Now that is an awkward moment to say the least!

So, the moral of the story is this. If you feel like you need to hide the way you eat from other people, you probably need to make a change.

Secondly, there is no hiding your eating habits from anyone anyway. Did Tracey really think everyone around her believed that she was as strict of a dieters as she was playing up during the barbecue?

People aren’t that dumb, you can’t pull a fast one on everyone around you like that.

The saddest part is that Tracey obviously doesn’t believe anyone will support her or is embarrassed to ask for support with her eating issues.

In reality most people will support you if you ask for it.

Hiding it from everyone is never going to workout and just makes it an even worse and depressing experience when you do in fact eat.

Eating shouldn’t be something you’re ashamed of, it should be something that is fun, social, and celebrated with friends and family.

This is probably the single greatest benefit of Eat Stop Eat. You never have to give up any of the social events that go hand and hand with eating (and you can still lose weight!)

Anyway, I hope people like Tracey can be comfortable eating in front of other people one day soon. It really just doesn’t have to be that way.

John

Posted by johnbarban in Uncategorized
Tags: Dieting, Eat Stop Eat, Eating, Nutrition, Overeating |5 Comments

5 Responses to “Are You Ashamed Of Eating In Front of People?”

  1. Rahim Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    I’m SO glad you told that story because I have people in my family who are large in size and everytime we go out to eat, I wonder how in the world they can be so big when they barely eat anything at all. It perplexed me for the longest time as I’m sure for other people too.

  2. David Smith Says:
    September 26th, 2009 at 12:04 am

    Hey John is it possible to lose body fat without losing weight. I am 6’0 and 162 pounds and to be honest, while I lift weights 4 times per week for 45 minutes, I enjoy displaying muscular definition through a low bodyfat more than I strive for sheer muscle size. The only problem is that I do not want drop a lot more weight in an effort to lower my bodyfat more. What would you recommend in this situation? Thanks in advance.

  3. johnbarban Says:
    September 26th, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    David,

    The structure and intensity of your workout will go a long way in determining if you can build up your muscle size. Your genetic starting point (endo, ecto or mesomorph) will determine your overall growth potential.

    Sounds like you’re pretty lean. I wouldn’t worry about bodyweight or eating more or less food. Just workout intensely and don’t miss any workouts or reps. You have to progressively lift more weight and heavier weight to force your muscles to grow.

    Forget about how much you weigh, that is irrelevant to how good you look. As you build muscle your overall look should be your only judge of progress, weight on the scale is irrelevant.

    JB

  4. David Smith Says:
    September 28th, 2009 at 3:19 am

    Thanks for your response John. Just to clarify, are you suggesting that through lifting intensely bodyfat could be lowered to a degree that my abs are revealed. Although I am light, I probably still carry 12-14% bodyfat and would like to lower it if possible. That being said, muscle is not something that I can willingly sacrifice to do so. Just wondering if it is possible in some way to gain strength and size while also lowering your bodyfat. Thank you for your help.

  5. johnbarban Says:
    October 8th, 2009 at 11:08 am

    @David Smith
    David,

    There is no reason to think that you have to get fat to build muscle. I think it is totally possible to build muscle without adding fat. It’s a matter of consistent heavy workouts.

    JB

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