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No, it’s regular. I can’t drink diet anything. I desire intense flavor in food and drinks. I kill on average between 4-10 bottles of regular soda a day at work, and then continue drinking cans of it outside of work, and then milk usually during dinner time and dessert.
My weight hovers between 160lbs and 170lb. I’ve eaten so much I’ve gone over 170 very slightly and then the next morning I go right back down to 165 or so; and I’m a tall man. It just felt like my metabolism would instantly crush it. But the weight doesn’t stay no matter how hard I try to gain it. I can’t stay feeling full longer than 15-30 minutes at a time usually before I feel hungry again.
Some things I just can’t eat because like I’ve said, I’ll feel anemic and fatigued the whole day. Salads are one of them. I hate salads. If I’d already eaten the meat and potatoes and everything else out of the fridge, I remember I’d go into the cupboards, dig out an unopened container of chocolate frosting, scoop all of it into a bowl, put it in the microwave and eat all of it with a spoon. Yeah, empty calories but gave me a momentary energy boost.
When my mother would go grocery shopping for our family as kids, she’d do regular grocery shopping for all of us, and then she’d do grocery shopping just for me, so we always spent more than the average family. My friends always said I had the diet of a 10 year old kid. A lot of times though I skip out on meals here and there just to stay more in line with everyone else but I’m starving inside when I do that.
My father made this point to me once. He argued back in hunter-gatherer times nature would select ‘against’ people like me from existing because I’d be the guy who ends up killing the whole tribe by starving them of all their food to satisfy my own hunger and would wind up being exiled to die in isolation. And if I survived that I’d probably end up getting killed from raiding all the neighboring tribes for their food. Thats why there isn’t many people like us. But every now and then I suppose nature as a hiccup from its evolutionary past.
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