I am really jealous of my friend that eats for fuel and not for pleasure.

Foodie life is hard, requires discipline. I live to eat, my parents eat to live. Guess who is a chunkly

That’s wild to me you envy that! I knew some skinny guy who once said “I just don’t really like food” I thought that was sad cause to me enjoying food is one of life’s pleasures!

I feel the opposite. Eating delicious food is one of the best small pleasures in life, and I feel bad for people that can’t enjoy it.

I think most people enjoy food, so eating for fuel is actually pretty rare, What helped me save time was having 3-4 simple meals I repeat during the week, so I don't overthink what to eat. It still feels enjoyable but saves money and time

You could probably save a bunch of money and time if you also took out all the other things you enjoy in life. But then... What's the point? If there is something you genuinely would rather spend the money on, and rather spend the time doing, then find some strategies to help you attain that goal. But if you like good food, and you think it's worth it, then... Stop looking over at the latest iteration of the Earl of Sandwich and thinking it's aspirational.

I transitioned from your type of eating "eating for fuel" over the last few years. I started slowly adding more fibre to my diet and I lost 20kg over two years. With the extra Ifibre I wasn't hungry all the goddamn time. The only "h*******" thing i did was i quit butter. Everything else was gradually changes to my diet. Now my eating reward system isn't solely linked to sugar.

I’m in the middle. I meal prep because I lift and train martial arts, so eating something for pleasure like fried chicken etc before working out will make me feel slumped. So there’s definitely intelligence to how I eat. My meal preps are sometimes the same thing for weeks on end with the occasional I’ll skip a meal prep and feed a craving for my mental.

I used to dislike food and eatingin general that changed when I went on my own and started cooking myself. Turns out I just disliked the oily curry’s my mom makes. (Everyone is always so complimentary about her cooking I didn’t think it was a her problem) I cook with about a third of her oil and balance my spices better imo.

My 10 yo son has the ability to stop eating precisely when he is full. If it’s halfway through a chocolate bar or 3 crisps from the end of a bag, he’ll just end there. As someone brought up to “finish your plate” regardless of satiety and poor appetite regulation as a consequence, I think it’s amazing and to be preserved at all cost!

Idk about you op. For me, I just got tired of feeling the way I was feeling physically and mentally. But it is achievable for regular folks, just takes a lot of discipline. Eat the right foods together and the cravings and “food noise” become less and less.

Sorry to say your friend is missing out on one of the greatest pleasures available to humans in our short life here: food. 

Make him the very best chimichangas he’ll ever have in his life. Take him down with you.

Stay away from those psychopaths.

I eat for pleasure, I eat for fuel - I love eating but won't eat just to eat. We call it discipline.

If you actually love and care for yourself you'll get it together. People act like their tastebuds are the most important part of their body. The feeling in your entire body when you have a good, healthy, long-term nutritious diet, beats any short term glee you feel from overly salted, fatted, and sugared poisonous garbage you love to shove down your gullet right now.

I could never. Food is literally one of my top 3 reasons to get out of bed. Your friend is built different and I respect it but also I feel nothing but pity.

I wish i can do both

I'm like your friend. While I do enjoy the food while I'm eating it, I hate having to organise it,ie getting the ingredients, cooking and cleaning. Also I dislike it because a lot of times I have to stop something I'm doing to go eat because my body is hungry. And even if I'm not in the middle of something, I could be doing something else more productive/fun instead of having to eat.

On the other hand, it can be very difficult to meet your nutritional needs when you don't enjoy eating and have to force yourself every day

It’s strange how something as basic as eating becomes so driven by habit and comfort. Choosing health over that isn’t as simple as it sounds.

i'm the opposite and it's a curse honestly. i can't walk past a bakery without it becoming an event. wish i could just see food as fuel sometimes but my brain has other plans

I eat to live. I don't get the hype with food too

As you get older you may get better at that. I ate whatever growing up but as an adult I eat according to the app The Daily Dozen. I don’t find it challenging, I like it. If I’m not eating at home I might not eat perfect but I’m also not gonna go nuts.

I eat one big meal every 24 hours, no snacks. That meal includes 1 can of soda. The rest of the day is water. There are days I have to remind myself to eat, not because I'm hungry, just because I know it's been over 24 hours and I should eat. I don't like snacking, I don't like sipping on sodas I, just don't like to eat. This how I've been most of my adult life. Blood work is fine and I feel fine. I personally find it kind of disgusting when people just gorge themselves for no other reason then it tastes good. 5"4 108lbs

I was not that way until starting the keto diet four years ago to address my T2 diabetes (which it did). Food now is basically just fuel and I don't attach any emotion or anticipation to it. Clearly there are some things I prefer over others but yeah, no cravings and it's very liberating in many ways including time surprisingly and even more-so when I do OMAD. 👌

I eat for fule only, I cook every night and put in high quality fule but I wish I dint have too. whats even more odd is I enjoy cooking, the ritual of it chills me out and gets me settled in to home tike when im back from work, after its cooked I often serve it and leave it on the side to go do somthing more interesting. This makes life hard sometimes, I have had anemia and wildly regarded amoungts peers as having an eating disorder despite keeping myself at a healthy bmi for the sake of my health. I realy realy realy wish I enjoyed food in your way, it would turn a task I have 3 times a day in to a pleasure I have three times a day, it would allow me to enjoy food with others too and the social aspects that brings. Instead I eat when I get tired and slow untill by gut hurts or im sick then carry on untill I get slow and tired again

I eat to live, not live to eat,,,,

Food and eating the food should bring you pleasure. It's one of the small pleasures of life.

He might be a non-taster.

The person that just eats for fuel is the last person you’d want to be jealous of. That sounds like the worse reality I could come across. My money giving me good food is the least it could do lol

The only 2 reasons why I eat food is 1) I absolutely love food so much. It's a fun experience. And 2) I am logically aware I need food to stay healthy.  So if I'm not in a good mental state, I can sometimes get to a point of eating food bars just so that I have something being eaten within the day.  But otherwise I'm always trying to have the most amazing versions of all the foodz. I can have the worst day ever, be super gumpy, and then have a nice saucy layered pizza, or seasoned steak, and be in heaven.

My buddies wife took a hard fall 3 years ago. Hit her head in such a way that she got a concussion and lost her sense of smell. Now she eats just for fuel because she can't taste anything. She days she REALLY misses tasting her food.

I am a guy who somehow grew up this way, my mother too. I can be hungry, and I can be RAVENOUSLY hungry, like missed-eating-all-day/hunger-burps hungry, and dismiss the thought like it is a mild itch. I know I won't die, the feeling will go away in like 5-15 minutes and I'll be good for another 2 hours, so I can easily ignore it. I'm taking care of my grandmother who needs 4 different small pieces of meals and two drinks, and I am perfectly fine with making myself a bit of plain microwaved rice simply because I know my body would feel less uncomfortable with calories in it. I'm also an omnivore with next to zero "ick" foods, as well as being able to eat my "no" foods without complaining. I HATE wet crunchy, like coconut shavings or watercress, but I will eat it because... it's less unpleasant than getting yelled at by a parent despite being an adult, making you feel like a stupid spineless child lol. Compared to that bullshit, eating 10 days of Kraft Mac n Cheese straight with no breaks for breakfast and dinner is easy.

thats okaaayyyyy, you spend money on food, you are content and happy. He probably spends his money somewhere else and cannot save much either.