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Food Hangover 8-2-11

Every night around midnight, I get a hankering to eat.  Not just a snack, a full meal.  It’s my right as an American to eat five full meals a day.  When my cravings come upon me, I am obedient and follow them to the refrigerator.  I open the door to survey the my food choices.  If there isn’t anything interesting in the refrigerator, I go to the pantry.  If there isn’t anything interesting in the pantry I go back to the refrigerator.   Eventually I find something, turn on the TV, and eat.

Knowing I have to get up at 5AM makes this late night eating feel so decadent and good.   I’m balancing between the old day and the new one and there is something liberating about quietly eating like a free man in the middle of the night.

This would all be well and good except for the food hang over I’ll get when I wake up in the morning.  I didn’t know why I felt so crappy in the morning, but I consulted other fat and sloppies and they informed me that this is called a food hangover.  I immediately grasped the concept.  I asked them if there was something I could do to still eat and avoid the food hangover.  None of them seemed to know, it wasn’t something they had ever thought about before.

Is this another passage into middle age?  Having to choose eating huge meals at midnight or getting up refreshed in the morning.  I used to be able to do both.