(New Forbes FTD series patient profile at the end of article)
Matt Rouse
Well, I’m blimping out. I don’t have any idea how much weight I’ve gained,
but it’s been substantial.
Also just realized I need new reading glasses because I’m having trouble
reading the screen. Duh, guess it would help if I had my glasses on to begin
with. That’s not an FTD thing, that’s a common life experience.
Anyway, back to the walrus-ing of Howard Glick. It’s been happening for
months, but’s been particularly bad of late. Last week I threw out half a
refrigerator worth of food. Full-unopened moldy Costco spring salad and other
rotting fruits and vegetables. This morning I opened the fridge and the only
recent addition is organic milk, which I have with my cheerios at 5:20am each
day. At least the fridge will be easy to clean with nothing in it. My freezer
is full of fish which I do have a couple of times a week. Filled it up 6 months
to a year ago with Costco bulk fish products and cannibalize it once in a
while.
I have money for food, so what’s the problem. The problem is I stand at
the fridge with the door open and can’t make a simple decision what to have.
This is a bit more than your basic indecision. This is going back and forth,
staring in and just not being able to figure out what to do.
Then I head out to the local supermarkets, usually wandering isle to isle and not buying anything. Sometimes i partially fill up a shopping cart and just leave. I get confused over prices and items.
Then I head out to the local supermarkets, usually wandering isle to isle and not buying anything. Sometimes i partially fill up a shopping cart and just leave. I get confused over prices and items.
What happens from here is one of two things. The first is I order Chinese
take-out or pizza. Lately it’s mostly Chinese because my friend Alice will do
me bodily harm if I order pizza. She can tell if I’ve had pizza just by texting
me hello. Chinese or pizza is the
beginning of the problem. If I order a pizza pie, I eat the whole thing. Just
can’t stop. Has nothing to do with being hungry, I eat way past the hungry
stage. I just keep shoveling it in, consciously or unconsciously till it’s
gone. I do the same thing with Chinese or anything else, but pizza’s the most
dangerous.
Many with FTD have sweet tooth’s. Not me. My mother had type 1 diabetes
since before I was born; I grew up without any sugar in the house. I naturally
don’t care for sweets.
I also rarely prepare hot foods these days unless I nuke em. Incidents of
forgetting things on the burners have made me cooking wary.
These days fruits and veggies just don’t do it for me, I’ve turned to a
hard-core carb routine and it shows.
I’m stuck in a rut. It’s happened
before but this time I’m having trouble instituting change.
Many of you in and out of FTD world have
dealt with this. I welcome your suggestions though comments here, elsewhere or
email.
I
desperately need to de-walrus-fy.
Forbes Patient Profile Series
Matt Rouse
Howard
howardjglick@gmail.com
Not sure if this would work, but you could remove the phone numbers of that pizza joint and that Chinese place from your phone speed dial. Or, make a pact that you'll only order a large item like a pizza if there is someone present to help you finish it. I've also bought certain foods only and avoided others, like vegetables over TV dinners. When that's all you have to eat in your house, you eat just those food items. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHi Halina, Do you live in NY, you could help me finish the pizza :-) Good advice, thank you.
ReplyDeleteHoward
Howard, it's obvious that Alice cares about your health. Maybe she could make a daily list for you of what you should eat. Then a grocery list to accommodate that menu. That would eliminate the decision-making. She could include Chinese one day a week.
ReplyDeleteDonna Smith
Thank you Donna. Alice said the exact thing last night. It might work.
ReplyDeleteThanks again. Howard