Quite often you are, but probably still hungry, depending on what you’ve eaten.
Food companies “design food for irresistibility,”
One of his main messages is that overeating is not due to an absence of willpower, but a biological challenge made more difficult by the overstimulating food environment that surrounds us. “Conditioned hypereating” is a chronic problem that is made worse by dieting and needs to be managed rather than cured, he said.
Knowledge, as always, is power. Lack of knowledge is power you’re giving to someone else. I myself have little problem keeping my weight even, but I too understand the craving. I will stuff myself full of chemical concoctions from time to time, sometimes justified by the fact I’m not home and need to eat, sometimes just because it’s there, sometimes because I have a nigh-irresistible craving for these substances I just can’t explain. I hope I never have a problem with weight, but for those that do you have my sympathy. Watching the food network is bad enough, but every other channel, when it’s not a commercial about drugs to make your penis work, it’s a commercial about food to make your belly stick out longer than the Viagra will make the rest of you (or how much money you can spend on a car to pretend the Viagra needing parts are large).
Food used to be about survival. Now it’s about settling a craving, an urge; or even worse it’s about image. How often has someone assumed something about your personality construed from the food you eat? We see skinny kids in McD’s commercials and are supposed to think “that’s the carefree individual I want to be” but you see an overweight guy on the street chowing down on Big Macs and you think “poor bastard – but look at him, no wonder he’s fat.”
In our society, often the poorest people are, unfortunately, the largest. How exactly did that happen? The poorest people used to starve. It’s great that death by starvation doesn’t really occur in our country, but how many preventable deaths due to obesity-related complications (type-2 diabetes, heart disease) do we have now? Well, if you’re worried about terrorists or robbers shooting you in your own house, you’d better worry again.