Everyday Systems

Anyone else becoming a food snob like me? I find that since I'm only eating three plates of food a day, I'm mighty picky about what goes on that plate. Today I drove five miles out of the way to get the *perfect* bar-b-q sandwich from my favorite joint. Not everything on my plate is always healthy, though I am making greater strides with that, but it is almost ALWAYS something I really love.

PS Last weekend when I went camping I was so pumped that I didn't have to buy special foods and wasn't panicking about not being able to have access to whatever diet food I was on and having to cook different. Well I lied. I DID have to pack something special. The stuff to make Smores. Gotta love this.

PSS - I'm not always this bad in my food choices but it is nice to have those days and be guilt free.

Actually, I think I was more of a food snob before! If I was going to be "on a diet" (and by that I mean a REAL diet, not No S, which doesn't seem like a diet at all) then I was going to get the first choice because I was so deprived that I deserved the best and you (other members of my family) could wait and have my leftovers because you got to eat whatever you wanted. I felt selfish and rude doing this, but I think I was so angry and resentful from being on diets that I was turning into a mean person.

Now that I am eating this way, I don't have any resentments or anger. I do make good choices, but I am willing to compromise and let someone else have their say too. I am getting along so much better with my husband, too. This is better than marriage counseling! Jeesh, poor Mrs. Engels (what is her name anyway?), her husband is the one in danger of becoming a snob. He's got all of us giving him credit and bowing down and now even thinking he's saving marriages! LOL

For the most part, I've stopped thinking of specific foods or food groups as "good" or "bad." I know there are things that are not good or healthy, but they aren't things I eat often anyway (can you say "Cheetohs"?).

But as far as butter or other fats or sugar or meat or eggs or whatever, I'm not attaching "good" or "bad" to them. Some things I eat more often, some things I eat less often.

I'm definitely a food snob. I'm eating good, real, high quality food.

Wosnes --- what you said made me really reflect this morning and I realize when I just eat what I want in the proper portions, not classifying things as good or bad, I do SO MUCH better. Several times in the last several weeks I went out and bought fat free yogurt and things I thought would be healthy and made really what was, in retrospect, diet meals from days gone by, and those were the days when I really struggled and messed up.

When I eat normal food, what I want, in the proper portions, I am happy and satisfied.

In my one of my first posts here I talked about how I had lost about 15-20 lbs or so, can't remember the exact #, since last year and it was when I gave up on dieting. That should have been a clue to me. Before I had a terrible cycle of deprivation and then binging. So even when I just ate normally and wasn't practicing No S rules, at least for me, it was an improvement over dieting. Does that make sense?

Hope everyone has a great Saturday. Gotta clean house, work, and go to the gym. The latter is actually something I enjoy.

I think a lot of the adjectives we apply to food -- "good", "bad", "healthy", "unhealthy" and so on -- have created a fear of food not seen previously or in other places in the world. We've lost the ability to enjoy food, to see it as something that not only sustains us, but brings us pleasure. In fact, there are some who say we shouldn't derive pleasure from food. Tell that to the French!

Last night, I spent some good five minutes considering whether I should by imported irish butter or not, then I remembered that I still have a lot of regular butter in the fridge and I refrained.
I have always been a food snob, that has always been a source of teasing from my family and a constant headache from my husband in our first years of marriage.
The difference now is that for first time in a long time, I'm a guiltless snob, I go through food stores, looking at nice stuff and going Oooh!, without thinking "I really shouldn't be eating this, if I buy that, how am I going to fit it in my every day eating, I mean, I already eat too much, I wonder if that lady next to me is thinking that I should lay off the eating", etc., now, I just go Oooh! and I buy it or not, but not out of guilt.
Guiltless and loving it.

JustJill, you really hit a nerve on your remark about being a mean and nasty person when dieting! I think back to how I acted when dieting and in restaurants if something wasn't just "right" how "ugly" I could get! Wow, talk about a flashback and one that I am not very proud of, I might add.
And if being a food snob means picking and choosing good food, yup, I guess I belong to the club! Sure beats having to eat stuff that you really don't like and really doesn't taste all that good and then "blowing it" on something totally not "allowed" on whatever plan I was on at the time. Horrible memories, to say the least.
At least now I can go out and eat and enjoy what I am eating and generally leaving part of it on my plate! And I am sure that I am MUCH better company.

Around the same time I started No S, I read a book called The Martini Diet.
She encouraged people to become food snob.
The rules were:
Eat only the best
Eat less of the best
Eat less of the best 3 times a day

I'm not a food snob, but I try to eat real food like half and half, real mayo, real ranch dressing, whole eggs, real cheese. I had heavy cream in my coffee the other day because I ran out of half and half.

But, I am in no way a purist either. I don't have a problem eating McDonalds for a meal!

3aday wrote:But, I am in no way a purist either. I don't have a problem eating McDonalds for a meal!

Neither am I.

I won't go hungry rather than eat "inferior" food. But if the choice is there, I choose the "good stuff".

Amen, Noel, Amen!

I'm not a food snob. I'm having a Totinos frozen pizza right now. It all fits on one plate.

3aday wrote:I'm not a food snob, but I try to eat real food like half and half, real mayo, real ranch dressing, whole eggs, real cheese. I had heavy cream in my coffee the other day because I ran out of half and half.

Believe it or not, I had half-and-half for the very first time Saturday morning in my coffee. The reason I'd never had it had nothing to do with fat content or any kind of diet myth or truism. I remember my parents using it on their cereal and in their coffee and for some reason, I'd always assumed I wouldn't like it. Well, guess what? I liked it!

NoelFigart wrote:I won't go hungry rather than eat "inferior" food. But if the choice is there, I choose the "good stuff".

Me either. When I'm hungry, anything is fair game.

This is my kind of world. I too am a food snob. Today I was short on time when lunch came, so I stopped at the Hot Dog stand and had a Polish saugage w/chips and a diet coke. Something I would never have done before, and I love polish saugage.

This site is great.

Debbi

Now that I am eating this way, I don't have any resentments or anger. I do make good choices, but I am willing to compromise and let someone else have their say too. I am getting along so much better with my husband, too. This is better than marriage counseling!

Jill,
I relate to much of what you say! IT is so nice to not have resentment or anger around too ...

as far as being a food snob ... I am a picky eater ... I am pretty picky about my junk food .. there is no absolute reason why I love this or that ... pretty much I let my preferences guide me ... I like a nice blend of healthy with a touch of junk!

Blueskighs

I am a shameless food snob. Also a beer snob.

Life is too short to drink cheap beer or to eat crap food.

Which is to say, that I try to only consume the things I know I'll *really* enjoy. My hipster coworkers claim a love of really cheap beer, but I think they're delusional.