generation x is the fattest of them all

...and this leads to the second problem, fat guy thinking. I spent the majority of my adult life eating way too much, then lost weight and now eat much less food. My stomach is naturally smaller as a result. But to this day, my brain thinks I can still put away a giant plate of food. I see a towering pile of food on a plate and think, yeah, I can totally eat all that. Easy! Nope. Wrong. I can't eat all that, because if I do, I will get sick from overstuffing myself.

Speaking of which, "stuffed" is a feeling I don't like anymore. Being stuffed makes me feel lethargic, tired and slightly sick. In my fat years, I didn't know the difference between stuffed and full. All I knew for the longest time was stuffed. I know what full feels like now, and I can assure you there is a significant difference between stuffed and full.

What I have learned that's stuck with me is to think ahead, as in really consider what will happen after eating certain things.

For example, a doughnut. And not just any grocery store prepackaged crusty crap. A good doughnut that was made that day in a doughnut shop.

Forget the fact the doughnut is at least 300 Calories and completely wrecks staying within a certain Calorie limit for the day. (Depending on what limit you follow, 1 doughnut could be anywhere from 15% to 25% of your daily intake.)

That doughnut, at the mouth, is great. Tastes lovely, and the texture is nice.

After that, it goes down the throat and starts to digest.

It's knowing what happens then that keeps me away from doughnuts.

Eating a doughnut means consuming a baked pile of dough that is effectively a small cake. That dough is going to hit the stomach and stay there for a while. In that dough is a bunch of dough conditioners, sugar, and who knows what else. I know it will not digest well.

The sugar high hits the brain before digestion even begins. Initially, the hit feels good, but not long after that will be a crash. The all too familiar lazy do-nothing feeling sets in and all I want to do is sit somewhere and recover.

All this from one doughnut. But it's not like I'm having just the doughnut. Gotta have the coffee with it because that matches up perfectly with doughnuts. Yeah, let's just eat a cake full of conditioners and sugar and chase that with caffeine. What could possibly go wrong?

I know what goes wrong. A gut full of junk, a momentary sugar high followed by a crash, chased with caffeine so I feel both alert and tired at the same time.

That is a feeling of sick. Being I don't want to feel sick, I don't eat doughnuts.

And that's just one of several "foods" I outright avoid. Don't even get me started on milkshakes.

But this does get me thinking about a question..

Published 2025 Jul 1