Showing posts with label grocery lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grocery lists. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

We are what we eat?

Something is wrong with me.  I have become very obsessed with food.  I do not know if it has something to do with the fact that I work at a health food grocery or if it has something to do with not having money to buy what I want, when I want.

Either way, I hate that I keep spinning my mental wheels on something so trivial and ordinary and... unenlightening.  Can I not think of something more important?  

It has gotten so bad that I find myself getting excited about the grocery mailers that come in the mail.  (I know that they arrive every Tuesday.)  I pour over them and make imaginary lists, then compare between stores.  Then I throw it all in the recycling bin, because the lists are always so expansive that I could never afford them.  They also seem wasteful some how.  I get frustrated when I am working the checkout and someone (usually mothers, I'll wager) come through and get seven to ten bags of food.  Does anyone really NEED all of that?  I have never been a mother, so I don't know.  My dog only eats one thing.  (Dog food)

I also hate that I do this because I finally got back down to my driver's license weight, kind of without trying.  It was at a time when money was extremely tight and I had to ration what I had.  Sometimes I made the free samples at the store into a meal.  At that time though, I drank tons of water, took vitamins, and rarely thought about food.  I even cut out dinner some, and it was great.  I felt wonderful.  Now all of a sudden, I have this obsession, and I have no idea from whence it came.

Is there such a thing as online therapy?  I would like to get back to thinking of more important things, like spirituality, inner peace, writing snailmail letters to people, or horses.

Criminy, I need help.