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Pre-occupation with food

When I was dieting, I was SO preoccupied with food.  I was constantly thinking about what I was going to have to eat next, what I had eaten before that I shouldn't have eaten, or what I had eaten before that it was great that I ate.   Friends would call me and ask if I wanted to go see a movie, and I didn't want to go, because it would mess up my exercise schedule, or something weird like that.  Now that I look back on it, it was the most unhappy time of my life.

Content last updated March 28, 2008

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