I’m not talking about while you’re eating, I’m talking about during the next couple hours after over eating. A food coma is absolutely the same feeling as a good high from some drugs. After eating a way too huge meal and laying on the couch i feel soooooo relaxed and floaty and drifting in and out of heavy sleep.
Feeling boated and about to puke and also incredibly sleepy is good?
Edit: not to mention, overeating is one of the many less discussed reason we’re in this climate mess…
For some people, yes.
I’m the opposite. I enjoy shoveling food in my face hole, but do not enjoy the feeling afterwards.
The older I get the less I want to overeat. After big meals now if I don’t take a walk I feel like absolute garbage.
You know I had the same problem Two potential solutions: first, change what you gorge on. I eat a big bowl of popcorn most days (against MDs orders I fucking love popcorn) and all it is is empty fiber and butter. We stuff ourselves on Thai (love me some pad gra pao) instead of Chinese (they had the best sauce. Think sweet and sour, not dyed red, with extra garlic, onion greens, and some of that Chinese chile de árbol equivalent its fantastic. Fuck I need to make some and… Ooo I might be able to convince my mother to make beer battered beef bites I can dunk in the sauce I’ll let you know if I succeed because I have been refining this recipe for 20 years and the restaurant I’m copying from just closed. I guess I’m gorging on Chinese again)
Second solution is weed. Or zofran, but weed is more fun. Antiemetics.
Third solution, more of a potential solution to a potential problem, if overeating causes Satan’s Eyeball, they make great ointments to block and heal taco butt. If it doesn’t touch skin, it can’t hurt you (except emotionally).
You should listen to your doctor and your body when they are telling you “no”. Not trying to be preachy or shame you, but please consider your health and well-being.
i have seen so many incompetent MDs in the last few decades, MDs orders count for jack shit. I really enjoyed the ones who tried to diagnose me with conditions in body parts i do not have.
Overeating makes me feel gross. Mildly nauseous with bouts of indigestion and acid reflux. Dizziness. Cramps. Low grade depression.
I despise being over full! Glad I’m not the only one in these comments. It just makes me feel sick.
Yeah it feels good for about 5 minutes then its terrible for several hours
You’ve been using some shitty drugs, then.
Found some old death star a few weeks ago (that I smoked today) that is itself a few months old sitting in a sunny room. The cbn had me munching hard. 8 feel like poo poo.
Don’t mix up overeating with the human’s natural down phase during the mid day though. It’s normal for humans to feel tired after lunch, because humans took breaks during the day (kind of like Siesta in Spain).
Industrialization introduced the work from 9 to 5. In reality humans had a biphasic sleep schedule before that. We still experience some after-effects genetically from this in our circadian rythm. There’s actually several words in languages across Europe for this, i. e. in German “Mittagstief” (midday low).
Humans never worked as much for other people as they did this day and age, of course not counting the early days of industralization.
To be honest, this just sounds like sugar shock. If your blood sugar rises too fast for insulin to be able to counteract it, then you start getting symptoms like drowsiness, fatigue, and “high-ness.” This can feel good, but it is basically doing damage to your brain, so I am not sure that this would be good long term. Then again, I suppose the same can be said for (hard) drugs.
Well thanks anxiety, I guess? When I eat like that I feel awful. As someone else noted though, fasting can feel good, too virtuous. Until the headache.
Falling asleep at night empty but not hungry, that is the best feeling to me. Like eating enough in the day that my body understands it’s been fed but long enough before sleeping so I don’t feel full at all.
Ah, the ‘itis!
Ime you can get a similar feeling fasting, and then again when eating a normal amount after the fast.
As someone who definitely did a few hours ago, I can tell that I do not feel good.
What ? Makes me feel ill
“I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.” - Louis CK
Are you familiar with ‘jouissance’?
The drive continues past satisfaction into compulsion.
Pleasure is mixed with pain, shame, or guilt during/after the act.
It’s symbolic. Eating can act like a shortcut for dealing with other feelings or wants — it fills a need that words or thinking don’t fix.
I wasn’t familiar with the term (never studied Lacan) but I am offended by the concept of excess pleasure. No such thing.
I see enjoyment (jouissance) as a built-in surplus that pushes past satisfaction into something often painful or compulsive. Ideology hides this excess by promising straightforward fulfillment, but that promise produces the very leftover enjoyment it denies. The subject thinks it wants a clear goal, while an unconscious drive seeks the surplus; culture can redirect this surplus (sublimation) or it returns as symptoms (addiction, shame). So enjoyment isn’t just pleasure — it’s the extra push that both sustains desire and disrupts meaning.
You saying no such thing is a misunderstanding. Žižek links this surplus to the paradox that prohibiting pleasure produces a new form of enjoyment — the pleasure of prohibition. The ban sets up a forbidden object that becomes more desirable; the surplus (jouissance) then migrates into transgression or guilt, so prohibition itself generates the very enjoyment it aims to stop.
I’m curious to know specifically how this was experienced as offending
it’s mostly a
type offense, as i thought i was clear i haven’t studied lacan.
It’s a survival mechanism.
We human animals were designed to live in the wilderness with no available food. We had to constantly be on the search for food or preparing it in order to survive. And when we found food, we gorged on it because we knew that there might not be another supply of food later.
Humans lived like that for thousands of years.
It’s only been very recently that the majority of us had a steady supply of food. There are starving populations but not as much as there was in the past.
We are designed and conditioned to be starving because we are not supposed to have freely available food all the time.
Maybe in a few thousand years we will adapt to having food around all the time.
But right now and for the foreseeable future, we’re going to have problems with our diet and health all the time unless we really apply our knowledge and self control to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
