It’s the Packers, innit?
I’m certain it’s either the Patriots during the Tom Brady era or the present day Chiefs. No, I can’t prove it 
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Me, too! There’s usually lots of crazy involved, but I’ve had all kinds of fun “story” dreams that I find very entertaining. Even some nightmares can be entertaining with a little distance.
Food restrictions of any kind are hard.
If you can change the way you mentally attach yourself to that food item you can change the reason you want it.
Sounds easy. But it’s not.
I’m so restricted in my food choices I dream of food items. I’ve slept walk and found myself in the process of trying to eat these things.
So far either I’ve woken or someone has woken me before I ate enough to hurt myself.
Right now I’m having cravings and dreams of Oreo cookies. So they are not allowed in the house.
I’ve probably eaten 3 Oreo cookies my whole life. I cannot describe the taste, at all.
I saw an episode of Sex in the City and the girls were eating Oreo cookies and trying to decide what was better, Oreos or Oral sex.
That’s where it came from.
Yep. I think I have issues.
Yes, and I’ve finally gotten to the point that I can think “if I eat that I’ll be worse off than if I don’t” and it was hard.
Ever since I was a little kid I’ve obsessed about food. I’d image my first grade school desk as edible (the brownish metal frame was milk chocolate, and the wooden golden oak work surface was toffee). I’d dream about food, but I couldn’t taste it when I was little. Then, later, I could taste it. When I watch cooking shows in TV, I nearly drool.
So, I know where you’re coming from.
I think that most people don’t accurately describe their dreams because they can’t. Dreams are just too weird to fit into words. Like, a few nights ago, I dreamt that I was reading one of my favorite webcomics, except in addition to being the person reading, I was also one of the characters in the comic, except I was also one of the other characters, except instead of reading it, I was one of a crowd of people in an auditorium listening to it being narrated, and I was also watching a cartoon animation of it, and it also wasn’t the webcomic, it was Lord of the Rings. And all of those things were somehow true at once, in the dream. And that’s not even getting into what the plot of the comic was, because I don’t even remember that, except that it was really weird, too.
Were you often hungry as a child? I only think about food that way when I am very hungry. And I’m not usually very hungry.
We were poor, but not that poor. Though with four kids, we always said “He who grabs the fastest gets the mostest.” It installed a certain insecurity. Plus, we almost never got extras or special treats. I craved them. It’s caused me a lot of issues over the years. I remember chatting with my WW counselor once, and she confided that she and I just really love food. She got that right!
The only kind of diet that has ever worked for me is a strict low-carb ketogenic diet. No sugar or carbs except for the most minute 1-2 g per serving; otherwise I can eat all the protein, fat and green vegetables I want. Although I occasionally miss eating pizza, bread or sweets I don’t crave them as long as I stay “on the wagon”. If I cheat even a little it is nearly impossible for me to not cheat more. I’m convinced that for some people like myself carbohydrates are like alcohol to an alcoholic.
My late husband came from exactly the same environment of kid ratio to food. In his family, they said, “There are The Quick and The Thin.” 
Well, and the ones, like my older sister, who inherited my mom’s metabolism. I sadly did not.
If this is done in order to improve the diet, and doesn’t include calorie restrictions, I agree that it’s a good idea. The person doing this may or may not lose weight. If they add exercise, they may even gain weight, as muscle mass is heavy.
If the diet is so designed as to guarantee weight loss, it’s very likely to lead to long term weight gain. And a hell of a lot of people do go on such diets.
Yeah. I’m fat. And I’m going to be fat. But when I quit trying not to be fat, I stopped getting fatter. I eat better than most people; and I get more activity than most people, though I don’t get it in the gym.
If I’d kept trying to lose weight, I suspect that by now I’d be one of those people who weighs too much to get out of bed.
And I strongly suspect that I’ve been fat most of my life because I thought I was fat in my teens and twenties, and went on multiple weight loss diets. And you know what? even by the changed modern definition – when I went on the first couple, I wasn’t even fat. I was just on the higher end of what’s even now considered normal weight.
Yeah, one diet I went on when I was about 17 was fasting three days a week and eating less than 800 calories/day for the other four.
I’m sure I wrecked what little good metabolism I had.
Oreos are better.
You mean where the rich neighbor kids had hot dogs in buns, but you got store-brand rolled-up bologna on store-brand white bread? So when you grew up you tried to make up for all that, and went overboard? That happens.
I’m fat because i gained a lot of weight with each pregnancy, and decided it wasn’t worth it to try to take it off again. I had a baby to care for and a job, and it was much easier to buy new clothes.
Other than that, I’ve never really gained weight since i was fully mature. And yes, i think it’s partly because I’ve never felt food insecurity. (I gain a little weight on vacations, because I’m a picky eater and I’m never sure I’ll like the next meal. So i have a very low level for insecure and eat a little too much. But then it comes off when I’m home, because I’m not very hungry.)
I suspect you’re right that the push to lose weight is counter productive.
But the average weight increased in a lot of disparate cultures when they got desk jobs and cars and started eating processed foods. I don’t know what caused the weight gain, but i bet it’s more than just “dieting”.
If this was a reply to me: kind of. But more that we never got extras. I had a sweet tooth, and we never got candy except at Halloween. But we did also get the cheap versions of things.
Exactly what a strict diabetes diet is like. I’ve never gotten many sweets so I don’t have that all encompassing desire for sugary treats. But once in a great while something just strikes me.
I can save carbs and maybe get a taste of something I really want, it’s never good enough or as good as I wanted it to be.
I just don’t try anymore. All a futile excercise.
After many years I’ve learned.
I have to say it’s easy being on this diet because I like to live.
Yes, that’s probably why it’s psychologically easier (for varying definitions of easy) for me to follow the diet I’m on now. I’m old enough that I can’t get away with my old bad bad bad habits.
Don’t believe in much. But if there’s a god, I’ll get angels carrying me to a heaven with candy, cakes and pies. And ice cream. Don’t forget that.
And sweet sweet Southern iced tea.
