What is your Diet personality/Eating Personality?
June 9, 2009 by Gail Grannum
Filed under Healthy Eating Nutrition
We all have different personalities. We also have different diet personalities or eating personalities. But what are these diet personalities or eating personalities?
- There are those who are too busy to eat during the day – no time to sit and have a decent meal. When they go home, they try and satisfy their hunger trying to make up for the way they have deprived themselves throughout the day. As a result, they snack well into the late night, paying no heed to proper nutrition.
What is Your Diet / Eating Personality?
- There are the calorie counters, attentive to every calorie in the food they eat. They plan their meals to the T, ensuring not to eat more calories than they can burn. They tend to stick to their plan so much that they become guilty when they ‘cheat’. Eating is not a pleasurable activity for them.
- Then, there are the selective types. They prefer comfort foods and are not adventurous enough to try new things. Chances are, the nutrition that they get is not balanced.
- There are those who load up on carbs. There are those who are carnivores from day to night.
Whatever you think your eating personality or diet personality is, here are a few questions for you to answer. As you answer them, you’ll get to know more about the way you eat and how to identify habits that you can do without.
1) In the course of a day, what type of food do you prefer eating more of?
Some are mostly carnivorous while some lean towards vegetables and fruits. Many people crave more for carbs such as pasta, rice, bread, or potatoes. A balanced diet should be 2/3 whole grains, fruits and vegetables and 1/3 protein. The calories you eat must be distributed into these parts.
2) Besides the three regular meals, do you usually eat when you’re feeling bored? Stressed? Lonely?
Food sometimes is a response to what we’re feeling. When sad or stressed, it’s easy to turn to food for comfort, leading to bad nutrition. Food has also become a hobby to us. Those working in offices find it easy to snack away without being mindful of what they’re eating. This could be due to pressure at work or boredom.
3) Do you prepare your food or wait for food to be prepared for you OR do you drive-thru on the way to work / home?
Today, many choose convenience over nutrition. We grab the easiest meal to get ‘more pressing’ matters done. Commerce has made it possible for a lifestyle where we can manage multiple things within a day at the expense of compromising nutrition.
4) Do you eat only when hunger strikes or because it’s time to eat?
Usually those who eat only when hunger strikes tend to eat more. Consequently, they end up having more calories than those who eat at set times. Eating 5 to 6 meals a day helps us avoid hunger pangs, which makes it easier to manage cravings and get proper nutrition and a balanced diet.
5) Do you keep to your diet and never stray from it?
It’s good to have a diet plan, if it gives you a balanced diet. How are you in terms of following your diet? Are you always failing or are you the type who follows strictly and perfectly, leaving you with guilt when you eat outside the plan?
6) Do you eat food to live or do you eat food for the pleasure of eating?
Many of us struggle to limit food no matter how much calories, because it simply gives us so much pleasure. However, there are those who treat food as a means to survive. They eat only what they feel their body needs. It isn’t a bad thing just as long as they are able get a balanced diet and proper nutrition.
Understanding to how our body works and how it expresses its need for food is important. By reviewing our eating personality or diet personality, we may see activities we can change.
The end goal isn’t really the number of calories we consume in a day but to live a life that is healthy and content.
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