I’m not talking about while you’re eating, I’m talking about during the next couple hours after over eating. A food coma is absolutely the same feeling as a good high from some drugs. After eating a way too huge meal and laying on the couch i feel soooooo relaxed and floaty and drifting in and out of heavy sleep.
Overeating makes me feel gross. Mildly nauseous with bouts of indigestion and acid reflux. Dizziness. Cramps. Low grade depression.
Ime you can get a similar feeling fasting, and then again when eating a normal amount after the fast.
Well thanks anxiety, I guess? When I eat like that I feel awful. As someone else noted though, fasting can feel good, too virtuous. Until the headache.
Falling asleep at night empty but not hungry, that is the best feeling to me. Like eating enough in the day that my body understands it’s been fed but long enough before sleeping so I don’t feel full at all.
The problem with most problematic habits and behavior is that they feel really good. People don’t generally engage in harmful behaviors that also feel bad.
I’m the opposite. I enjoy shoveling food in my face hole, but do not enjoy the feeling afterwards.
The problem with overeating, is once you need to stop yourself, it’s harder to - because you still need to eat. You still need to keep doing the thing that you’ve got a problem with.
Imagine if to “stop smoking”, you had to smoke 3x a day?
That’s why eating disorders are so damn hard for people.
I desperately wish I could go cold turkey on eating. It is such a difficult thing to regulate for me, I want to simply give it up like I did for nicotine.
Mmm cold turkey.
Not bad. Nice, hot mustard. Good bread. The turkey’s a little dry… The turkey’s a little dry? Oh foul accursed thing! What demon from the depths of hell created thee?
Do smoothies/liquid ish things instead… Protein powder + spinach leaves+ any combination of blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, pineapple, bananas …
GLP1 drugs changed my life. When I’m on it, I have absolutely no desire to overeat. When I’m off it, even if my stomach is hurting from overeating, I still want to eat. It’s pretty crazy.
I recently quit and I’ve been surprised that I haven’t gained all my weight back yet.
But it’s truly crazy until you try this drug, if it works for you, how life changing it is. It really is like, wow, is this how it feels like to be able to be normal???
Just make sure that you keep up the good habits you had while on the medication. If you go back to your old habits the wright will come back. Glp1 blockers only work to force you into the good habits you need to keep when you go off it.
I despise being over full! Glad I’m not the only one in these comments. It just makes me feel sick.
Yeah it feels good for about 5 minutes then its terrible for several hours
It’s a survival mechanism.
We human animals were designed to live in the wilderness with no available food. We had to constantly be on the search for food or preparing it in order to survive. And when we found food, we gorged on it because we knew that there might not be another supply of food later.
Humans lived like that for thousands of years.
It’s only been very recently that the majority of us had a steady supply of food. There are starving populations but not as much as there was in the past.
We are designed and conditioned to be starving because we are not supposed to have freely available food all the time.
Maybe in a few thousand years we will adapt to having food around all the time.
But right now and for the foreseeable future, we’re going to have problems with our diet and health all the time unless we really apply our knowledge and self control to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
To be honest, this just sounds like sugar shock. If your blood sugar rises too fast for insulin to be able to counteract it, then you start getting symptoms like drowsiness, fatigue, and “high-ness.” This can feel good, but it is basically doing damage to your brain, so I am not sure that this would be good long term. Then again, I suppose the same can be said for (hard) drugs.
You’ve been using some shitty drugs, then.
The older I get the less I want to overeat. After big meals now if I don’t take a walk I feel like absolute garbage.
You know I had the same problem Two potential solutions: first, change what you gorge on. I eat a big bowl of popcorn most days (against MDs orders I fucking love popcorn) and all it is is empty fiber and butter. We stuff ourselves on Thai (love me some pad gra pao) instead of Chinese (they had the best sauce. Think sweet and sour, not dyed red, with extra garlic, onion greens, and some of that Chinese chile de árbol equivalent its fantastic. Fuck I need to make some and… Ooo I might be able to convince my mother to make beer battered beef bites I can dunk in the sauce I’ll let you know if I succeed because I have been refining this recipe for 20 years and the restaurant I’m copying from just closed. I guess I’m gorging on Chinese again)
Second solution is weed. Or zofran, but weed is more fun. Antiemetics.
Third solution, more of a potential solution to a potential problem, if overeating causes Satan’s Eyeball, they make great ointments to block and heal taco butt. If it doesn’t touch skin, it can’t hurt you (except emotionally).
You should listen to your doctor and your body when they are telling you “no”. Not trying to be preachy or shame you, but please consider your health and well-being.
i have seen so many incompetent MDs in the last few decades, MDs orders count for jack shit. I really enjoyed the ones who tried to diagnose me with conditions in body parts i do not have.
Don’t mix up overeating with the human’s natural down phase during the mid day though. It’s normal for humans to feel tired after lunch, because humans took breaks during the day (kind of like Siesta in Spain).
Industrialization introduced the work from 9 to 5. In reality humans had a biphasic sleep schedule before that. We still experience some after-effects genetically from this in our circadian rythm. There’s actually several words in languages across Europe for this, i. e. in German “Mittagstief” (midday low).
Humans never worked as much for other people as they did this day and age, of course not counting the early days of industralization.
Ah, the ‘itis!
What ? Makes me feel ill
