In this thread, the tangential discussion of whether you feel physically bad after eating junk food came up. I think that discussion deserves its own thread.
Unlike a lot of people, I don’t feel bad after eating junk food (unless I get food poisoning), or good after eating good-for-you food.
I don’t feel bad either. I like to work out, but you can take my oreos and cadbury bars from my cold dead hands!
I like the idea of eating good food, which I try to do. And I feel good mentally after I do it, like “Yay, wasn’t I good” which is how some people in the other thread said they felt about working out. But not physically any better than when I eat a kitkat or something.
My definition of “junk food” is highly processed foods or fast food and I definitely feel bad after I eat that kind of stuff. For example, if I’m traveling and the only palatable choice at the airport food court is Panda Express, I will feel pretty crappy if I have to eat it. I do eat what I would call “treats” (and I don’t feel bad about it) like some really good dark chocolate, some homemade cupcakes or snacks that are healthy and/or organic (but not necessarily low fat).
I sometimes feel gross after I eat junk and try to limit it. I have a hard time eating anything greasy unless I’m really hungry. I’m the girl that blots her pizza with a napkin.
I eat pretty healthy and drink a lot of water, and I’ve changed my meals to five small a day that include a good amount of protien with every meal. After a week or so, I noticed a dramatic difference in how I feel and my energy levels. I now don’t have an afternoon slump and I’m sleeping better. I also have more energy for exercise and my muscles look better.
Not really. After eating a cheeseburger the size of my head, washed down with a couple o’ pnts of beer, I might think, “Christ, I am a disgusting hog. A happy, fulfilled disgusting hog…”
So far this morning I’ve had a chocolate covered donut and a bloody mary (not together!), and I feel great! 
For me, it depends.
If it’s high-fat, especially fried carbohydrates (such as, say, donuts), then I feel depressed afterward. Not because “oh, I ate a donut, I suck”, but because apparently high-fat foods trigger a Depressive episode for me - or make a currently ongoing one worse.
Physical issues, though - nada.
On the other paw, eating a lot of healthful foods, such as a lot of veggies or whatever, doesn’t make me feel better than I did - in fact, I appear to be suffering a rare affliction that I’m calling “Fiber Intolerance”. Similar to Lactose Intolerance, eating high-fiber foods give me many of the same problems that dairy products to to people with LI. 
Doesn’t stop me from eating carrots or salad every day, though. After all, it’s good for me.
OH, and Jettboy…your post made me crack up. I’m gonna get into trouble one of these days for surfing at work, I just know it…
Not usually, but more than two Krispy Kremes and my tummy hurts. Or if I eat half a pizza and drink a bunch of Coke with it, it can, um, affect my digestion. Let’s say.
Sometimes, but not as bad as I feel after murdering a prostitute.
Nah. Food is food is food to me. The only important part is that I eat something, otherwise my blood sugar crashes really quickly. My husband learned years ago to never try to make me go somewhere or do something major without feeding me breakfast first. But I’m just as happy eating lima beans or a baked fillet of fresh fish as I am a hamburger or ice cream - they’re all very tasty. My default diet is fairly healthy, just because potato chips and such grow boring pretty quickly.
I don’t physically feel bad after eating junk food, unless I overeat.
I get the jitters and then a sugar crash if I eat a lot of white flour/processed stuff or sugary stuff and don’t have protein with it. I pretty much eat the way “they” tell you to, not only because it’s healthy (in general) but because I feel far better if I do. Lots of lean protein and veggies, whole grains, not much fat and very little sugary or processed stuff.
Same for me. I started to eat healthy food to lose weight but now more than a very small amount of white flour with sugar causes me to crash hard and feel terrible. I don’t like the taste of white breads, processed foods or things with a lot of salt or preservatives anymore, I want to eat salad and lots of vegetables every day and heavy fatty meat grosses me out. The exception is fried seafood - I love that and if it wasn’t so fattening I’d be down at the wharf having crab cakes every day.
Not only does junk food not make me feel bad, but healthy foods make me feel horrible. For at least two, probably closer to 3, weeks after I cut most sugars and fats out of my diet I get horrible stomach cramps and I have to shit every 20 minutes. I get plenty of fiber on a normal day (I eat lots of shredded wheat, fresh fruits and whole grain breads) so it can’t be that I’m increasing my fiber intake but for some strange reason making a healthy dietary change really makes my life damn near horrid for a few weeks.
If I eat a full meal at some fast food place like Wendys or KFC I do feel fairly blagh afterwards.
The point of eating good food isn’t to make myself feel immediately ‘good’ afterwards, but to be healthy and stop the cycle of eating garbage. It takes some time to notice the changes sometimes, but when I’m eating crap, I’m more likely to feel poorly, and when I’m avoiding that same crap I feel much better.
It depends.
An entire meal of junk food (fast food, or donuts for breakfast) will make me feel unpleasant, physically. I’ll be sluggish, and get much hungrier much sooner than if I have a healthy, balanced (protein, fiber, some fat) meal. And I’ll just crave more junk, and continue the cycle.
Dessert after a decent meal or a cookie on it’s own won’t make me feel bad, though.
I think I could happily eat junk food every day without feeling bad. It tastes good and I crave it even if I am very good and don’t eat junk for a long period of time. Like pbbth, I have often felt bad from eating too much healthy food.
I used to think the idea that you would feel better eating healthy food was a myth, but I hear it so much I guess I have to accept that it’s true. Between loving junk food and hating the gym, it’s no wonder that I struggle with my weight. I do wonder if this difference is why you get people who say things like “those disgusting fat people would be skinny if they would just put down the fork and get off their butt!” - if I felt so great doing the right thing and so awful doing the bad things, I would probably think it was easy too.
I answered both the exercise thread with “I love it!” and this thread with “I feel bad when I eat too much junk!” and I still struggle with my weight.
Maybe because I’ll still overeat healthy food, which can also make you fat if you simply eat too much of it. To me, MOST food tastes good.
It’s not just about liking junk food/disliking exercise. I know skinny people who love junk food and hate exercise - they just don’t have a tendency to eat that much as a whole.
Drinking will often cause depression the next day.
I used to like to go to a bar on a Saturday afternoon and drink a pitcher of beer and shoot some pool. Since this took place all afternoon I didn’t get drunk, just happy. But I noticed a trend where the next day I would be miserable. Not sick or have a headache, just feeling all depressed. I stopped doing that.
But I don’t notice junk food doing it so much.
I didn’t mean to suggest that people who liked exercise and healthy food couldn’t struggle with their weight, more that people who like exercise and are not tempted to eat the ‘wrong’ things AND don’t have issues with their weight are the ones who are likely to see overweight people as lazy and lacking in will power.