Ex-BF Rant: Be Open to New Foods & Eat Healthy
I generally like food. I’m open to new experiences… and I there are only a few things that I won’t eat. While yes, I’d be what most (myself included) consider to be overweight, that’s mainly due to inactivity, and not due to diet. I eat three meals a day and I do what I can to maintain sensible portions.
It was bloody irritating as hell dealing with my ex boyfriend and his eating habits. I only ever watched him eat was white bread or white pasta, extra cheese, extra meat, two… sometimes three servings, and soda. Pepsi in particular.
Never any fruit (unless you count fruit punch that contained obscene amounts of sugar and maybe 5% fruit juice) never any veggies (unless you count potato chips and french fries) never any whole grains… nothing what I would consider HEALTHY.
Anytime I cooked… he would either totally super-saturate everything I cooked in hot sauce to the point that everything was glowing bright red, or just outright refused to eat it.
To either throw a ton of unnecessary seasoning onto food before even tasting it… or to outright refuse to try it because one of the nine ingredients is something you “never eat” (for no good reason) is exceedingly rude. It’s insulting. I got sick of it, and stopped feeding him. At my house, he’d be forced to eat or go hungry, at his, he risked getting yelled at by family members for eating “their” food.
And not only was it WHAT he ate… but HOW MUCH. He claimed he didn’t cost much to keep around because he didn’t eat a lot. He did. He just didn’t eat frequently. His one meal would equal three of mine. Spaghetti piled sky-high. An entire bag of potato chips. A two-litre bottle of Pepsi. All pretty much in one sitting. Coupled with his inactivity of sitting in front of the TV, the computer, and his Xbox360 for HOURS at a time, he was somehow still mystified that he was gaining weight.
Not to mention… any time we went out for a meal at any restaurant or fast food joint, his meal would on average cost twice what mine would. And of course I was paying always the one pulling out my wallet for these meals.
His family lifestyle didn’t help either. They all live on pre-packaged, over-processed, often frozen foods, reheated in the microwave, so it’s obviously what he’s grown used to.
It’s just sad… because there’s only so much microwave radiation one person should really be ingesting.
