Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

I had a friend who pretty much only eats because he knows if he does not he will die. He is perpetually underweight. He just does not enjoy eating at all. Even foods he enjoys he hates to eat.

Meanwhile, I am over here knowing I am full and standing in the fridge to see what I can make to eat.

Felt. I like the taste of certain foods, but like I do feel like it’s a chore a lotta days
- I felt like this when I was bulking and eating healthy. Eating 5k Calories of healthy food a day is a fucking chore.
I know someone who has an issue with his sense of taste that most things are bland to him, so he doesn’t really enjoy eating.
- I worked with a guy who had neck surgery that severed the nerves to his taste buds. We worked overnight shifts, and we'd save the old coffee for him because he didn't mind the flavor of burnt coffee. There was always a pot of fresh coffee brewing and a pot of stale coffee set aside for Matt.
I am always thinking about food. It's horrible. I love eating. I quite enjoy cooking and baking. I'd love to trade him some of my love for his hate so we could both just have a boring healthy feeling towards food!
I always think to myself.....
"Cats are weird, because cats are weird. But they all have different personalities. Yet you kind of understand what a cat will or won't do. A cat will never starve itself, because he just doesn't like the concept of food. It may eat less than another cat. I've had a fat cat, and a skinny cat. The skinny cat liked eating some food when it wakes up. Then it would save half the meal until later. Well what the fat cat would do is eat all of her half, and then wait for the skinny cat to walk away. Then she'd eat the skinny cats remains. We had to start locking up the skinny cats leftover food, and put the fat cat in the bathroom before we gave the skinny cat the other half.
Then one night the skinny cat wouldn't eat. At all. She was sick. She died that same night. It wasn't because she varied from other cats in her willingness to eat food. It was because she knew she was going to die.
But then you look at humans. Humans are weird, because WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SPECIES??? Some of them are 80lbs as adults, and you can count their ribs, and they refuse to eat because they think they're too fat.
Then there's others who are 700lbs, and eating whole turkeys by themselves, and afterwards claiming they're still hungry.
And thats just food. Humans are weird in every single way.
One time in 2006 I was waiting outside best buy for a Wii. It's 2am, negative 5 degrees outside, store doesn't open until 10am.
Guy in front of me had a tent, and an extension cord, and a tv, and a vcr, and a microwave. He had a tent apartment basically.
So this guy is watching Jurassic Park in his tent. I can't see it, but I can hear it. Ilove that movie. Favorite movie, and I can "see" it, just by hearing it.
He gets to the T-Rex paddock breakout scene. THE iconic scene of the whole franchise. An iconic scene in cinema all around.
He stops the movie there. He STOPS the movie!!! And instead plays Seinfeld episodes.
Humans are weird.
- Can we get this AI tale of nonsens removed please?

All the biological processes are like that. pooping. sex. you think about sex without being horny and its like. I do that?!

I like the one about people having floppy teeth that get hard when they see good food.

One of the strategies for long term weight loss is to swap from an interesting and tasty diet (which are often high calorie density) to one as bland and uninteresting to you as possible diet (often low calorie density). Idea being you will eat less if you are only eating to survive rather eating to enjoy, you will leave more on the plate.

Personally I say fuck that, as life is hard enough as it is.

I tried this with potatoes. It's miserable and I broke after four days.
- just eating potatoes for every meal?

I guess we evolved to enjoy eating; those that didn't enjoy it didn't live as long

Imagine having to force yourself to chew and swallow substances because you will die otherwise.

How would it be different than breathing then? I don't get actual pleasure out of breathing, but its not a chore either. If I don't breath, I will die.

We get good chemicals when we get enough air. I'm quite addicted myself.
- I'm not sure that's true. We do get bad chemicals when we don't breath though via CO2 build up. Isn't that very similar to the pain response from lack of eating?

Here's what's even weirder: imagine what you're saying, but for sex instead.

Honestly that's me all the time. I do it for several reasons but I don't necessarily get crazy enjoyment from it. I don't hate it either, it's just not like the best thing ever, y'know? And it's not my partner, this has been my whole life. My body gets "enjoyment" as in, I can orgasm, but mentally I'm just like, meh.
- Sounds like you're somewhat ace
Hey now, we don't kink shame.
- I wouldn't call a pathological aversion to sex a kink. It's also not shaming to simply point out the existence of those who are grossed out by it for some reason or another.

Whenever some fundie says something about sexual education, replace it with food in the argument.

Nutritional education should be a private matter between a parent and child.

Teaching about food in school encourages kids to eat more food.

We don't make this sort of argument about literally any other subject. The very fact that they make these arguments shows they are putting sex in a special place, and will be completely incompetent at actually talking to their kids about sex.

My two takes on this:

food is fuel

I can and do subsist on a basic and bland diet if necessary. Food is a way to preserve my existence, so I have to eat. And when hungry I will eat anything for the sole sake of keep myself functioning. Some exceptions do apply.

we're biologically hardwired to seek pleasure from our food

That is why sugary food and more simply fruits and berries appeal so much to us: it's sweet, it tastes good, it's nice.

We actively seek enjoyement in eating. When this no longer happens, worry yourself. Even old people enjoy eating.

I’ve met people who claim they don’t enjoy eating and only do it because they have to. Often, they’re the same people who use that Soylent stuff. I can’t comprehend that mindset. I spend most of my day looking forward to my next meal.
- Some company actually markets a product under the name "Soylent"?
  Scary.
  When individuals reach, in my opinion, that point they are starving for more than food.
  Food is the first basic impulse we get satisfied and it is intermixed with confort, closeness and bonding. Later it will upgrade into a communal moment and the sharing of time and exchange of experiences.
  Again, in my view, to see eating as a chore says how lonely and dehumanized a person is. How little self worth they have.
  Which is sad.

I feel like the point of evolution is to stop this sort of thing from happening tho.

Evolution is about making babies before you die, and those babies grow up and make babies before they die.
“Purpose” is largely irrelevant, unfortunately.

Which reminds me... I'm too depressed to have energy to eat, survival is a struggle.

Somebody please shoot me lol

Username checks out. And no.

anorexic people would have a word

And folks with ARFID.

Sex as well.

have ever lost your appetite from an infection, i did from the flu in 2018, it was very hard to keep eating, and it wasnt enjoyable and i would stop eating for that meal. it was a very unusual experience, since the flu was so much severe than previous ones.