People say that if you have food on your table and you are able to eat at least three times a day, you are considered one of the luckiest persons on earth. But what if you eat way more than the expected Breakfast-Lunch-Merienda-Dinner meals? Is it still good?
When I was a kid. I was really, really thin and was very picky with what I eat. Some people would comment that I could easily be flown away by strong winds and that my bones could easily break with just a slight impact on my body. But what can I do? I really do not have an appetite for food unless it is friend or packed in an aluminum container with the label "clover chips". I have always been underweight and honestly, I do not care. I have always seen myself as special and being skinny or underweight can never define who I am. Fast forward to today, I am still skinny and underweight, but the way I treat food now is very, very different. Very unlikely of what was me before, I eat a lot now! I eat any kind of food you offer me. I can eat more than one cup of rice in just one meal and could eat a whole lot more on the next. I still love fried food, but a variety of viand has now been added to my preference. There has also been a time when my merienda is every two hours after lunch. I could say that there came a time when I got out of control with food. Some say that it is good so that I would gain more weight. But being out of control is a no-no.
As a saying goes, "Too much of everything is not good", which clearly means that too much food intake is not good. Aside from the fact that it may bring about certain diseases and may lead one to the road of obesity, there is also this guilty feeling of falling into gluttony, which is really bad. So now, I am slowly learning the art of self-control. Fortunately, though I underwent a phase of losing my control in what I eat, I was able to maintain my weight and figure. I am also quite surprised as to where my food goes because I remained thin and, well, underweight. But I think it has a lot to do with my body's metabolism. Maybe I belong to a family who are typically thin. It is in the genes, they say, but one must never just rely on the metabolism, so I started working out as well.
Maintaining something is hard especially when you are just starting. But you don't want any regrets! So you have to move! Yes, I can say that I am in a relationship with food. Well, we all must be! In the first place, food is one of our physiological needs and according to Maslow, physiological needs are to be satisfied first before our other needs. But remember, self-control!
