Do you "eat to live" or "live to eat"?

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For the most part, I eat to live. If nobody reminds me to eat, or if there isn't a schedule to follow, then I'll just forget to eat. For that reason, my dad worries a little about my independent living skills. That being said, I sometimes do eat because it tastes good, and not because I'm actually hungry.

I like to think I'm the happy medium. I don't usually eat unless I'm hungry, but occasionally I'll indulge in something delicious even if my stomach tells me otherwise. Especially if it's something sweet with lots of sugar in it.

Live to eat. And it's a constant battle.

50% of the time, my thinking is: "I need to control my eating much more. It's important for a long and healthy life."

The other 50%, I'm thinking: "Why live a long and healthy life, constantly worrying about what/how much I eat? Eating is one of my simple pleasures in life, and none of us know what the future holds."

I eat healthy and nutritious meals through the day, and I don't buy my own junk food for the house, but if someone buys me chocolate or offers to pay for a takeaway then I am certainly not going to say no. And it happens probably more than it should.

I am always skinny because I don't eat much. I too eat when I am hungry. I was accused of being anorexic, but I did not intentionally starve myself for my look anything like that. I simply forgot to eat!
I like to study what food does to our body and what is healthy, what not. I somehow have never been prone to health craze or extreme diet. I don't think a lot about what to eat, though, I don't eat junk food and processed food because it makes me feel sick.
Sugary food is not appealing to me at all and I feel nauseous after eating sweets. People kept giving me chocolate and I ended up having a pile of chocolate that I was not going to eat. I had to give them away. The funny thing was this. Someone gave my friend some nice chocolate. My friend did not like it, so she gave it to me. I rarely eat sweets and probably had too much chocolate, so I gave my chocolate away. One of those receive a bag of chocolate said to me: "Ah, I gave one like this to [...] last week. I did not know you went to that chocolate shop too." I did not know that chocolate shop. Nor did I know it was from a special shop in the city. Oops!

My diet is predominantly convenience-based and probably not filled with enough nutrients for a runner/yoga practitioner, let alone a vegetarian. Still, I've come a long way after suffering with past eating disorders, and have yet to relapse in that regard. Mostly I think I eat to live and live to eat; there has to be enjoyment involved, somewhere.

Apart from my guzzling of all manner of chocolate I see eating these days as what is nutritious and necessary, I used to be an atrocious consumer of towers of junk food as I knew nothing of what was healthy or harmful and had terrible agoraphobia and ran on a numbed autopilot in every area of my life, slowly I learned and adjusted and food was a big area and now I think about what is both yummy and useful to chomp down, I do both things I think, I would live regardless of what I ate but my body would not thank me as much if I snacked on crap endlessly.

I eat what is 1]cheap, and 2] least unhealthy. that translates into a daily gruel/quasi-goulash made up of whole oats, veggie juice, canned tuna, and a handful of sharp cheddar cheese. it keeps me alive and minimizes diet-based systemic inflammation. I eat almost no sweets other than some minimally sweetened 85% dark chocolate, maybe 10 grams worth per day, with some pure peanut butter, and a banana/PB for breakfast. if I didn't have 1]poverty, and 2] health worries to deal with, i'd certainly live to eat and would do so with relish. I can't remember the last time I've been in a restaurant or ate out in general.

I live to eat. I always been a very picky eater & the majority of the food I like is unhealthy. I only ate one meal a day as a kid because of how picky I was & couldn't get the food I wanted enough. I also tend to kinda binge eat on food I like. I'm not as picky as I used to be & I eat 3 meals a day nowadays but I still binge eat on snacks.

Neither.

Eat, feel guilty. Eat, feel guilty. This cycle!

This is why I see food as an enemy.

Because of the everlasting guilt and your weight creeping up on you.

It flip flops. Sometimes the simple pleasure of eating is one of the few things that gives me some motivation to live, other times I get so wrapped up in other things that I forget to eat. Honestly, if I could figure out a way to subsist on something like Soylent and not crave actual food all the damn time, I'd probably spend a lot less money on eating.

I live for those pink-iced cupcakes at the supermarket, haha.

when I was younger with a higher metabolism, [like in the army with all that enforced exercise] I could eat an entire deep dish pizza by myself, and a whole cherry cream cheese pie for desert, and chase it down with a diet slice or 2. I miss those days. now even if I wanted to, my shrunken stomach won't take more than 2 slices of pizza, with no room for beverages. but at least it keeps me from gaining too much weight.

I eat to live but I also enjoy food when I want to.

I like good tasting food, but in general, I eat to live with a Food is Fuel mentality. This results in me usually eating 5-8 meals per day depending on my level of activity.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

Live to eat. Food is a comfort and a crutch, as well as a coping mechanism for as long as I can remember. You put up with the crap I put up with, and you'll understand why I weigh over 300 lbs.