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January 23, 2025 • 14 mins

Anney opens up about how stress has negatively impacted her eating habits, and her quest to make them healthy once again.

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff.
When never told your production off, I hurt radio, And
welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. As always with
these segments, whatever you're doing, please do so responsibly. Are

(00:27):
you sitting on anything, Samantha.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I am. I feel like with everything to going down
not being too pleasant. I decided to treat myself today.
We don't have too much to do. We have stuff
to do, but I'm not going anywhere afterwards. So I
decided to put a little adult beverage into my coffee
because it's very cold here. Yes, and I see and

(00:51):
in my office. To be fair, probably not as cold
as your area, but it was closed off, so it
was pretty chilly. So I'm wrapped up in my electric
blanket with my coffee with a hunt of adult beverage.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
What about you? Yes, it is very cold. I am
drinking red wine. My mom for Christmas gives me all
of his wine, so I'm trying some of them I've
never tried before. This is a new one. I think
it's like Asian, a bourbon barrel or something. It's good.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
That's a lot that's doing stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, you know, they gotta they gotta venture out trying
new thing.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
You gotta make it brand new and spaey my mom.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh she's so she's got that like Southern it's a
deal thing like down Oh yeah, she was like it
was six models for this price. Yea, thank you. It's
very fact perfect. Okay. So yeah, there is a lot
going on in the world right now. I'm sure all
of you are aware we are going to be talking

(02:01):
about it. This is not this is a a bin wine.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yes, should have told me, I would have gotten ready.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
It was not. It's not about current events.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
But I.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Have been wanting to talk about this because it's new
year and it always comes up in the new year.
But content warning for disordered eating or just anxiety around eating.
If that's the issue for you, I would say skip
this one. Skip it. And that's fine. And it's not
We're not going to go to in depth. Samanthas kind

(02:36):
of heard me complaining about this recently. I've just my
my relationship with food has taken turn that I do
not like, and so one of the things I'm working
on for the new year is to reverse it. And
I did have lunch today, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Congratulations.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yes, it comes up because in New Year, like you
get all these emails from companies that's like, hey, you
need to generally like lose weight or do this or
do this, all this like food related stuff, and it's
just not great for me. And I want to say,
I hate talking about this because I am on a
food show, and so I feel like when I talk

(03:17):
about it that people will start doubting that my joy
on that show is genuine. But it is very genuine.
I love food, I love learning about food, I love
history of food, so it is it's real and I
don't think like having some kind of issue around eating
is like bars you from that. But I've always been

(03:39):
kind of nervous to talk about it because I'm like, oh,
I no, people are gott to think you're a phone.
You're just like pretending you're so excited about these things
and I am. And I also don't like talking about
it because there's a lot of I've discussed before, there's
a lot of anxiety I feel well around food, So

(04:01):
I usually like go last, Like if we're serving, I
want to go last because I don't want people to
see heaven forbid, they see what you've got, and so
I don't like telling people about it, because then I
get more in my head about it, like, oh, they're
paying more attention to it now. Anyway, the issue is

(04:22):
I've always had like issues around eating. Usually I have
to like convince myself like you're doing it for weight loss,
or you're doing it for this, are you doing it
for whatever reason? But it's not about like you're hungrier,
you want to eat, And so recently it's gotten really bad.

(04:46):
I'm going to assume it's stress because this did happen
to me in high school, and high school was not
a good time for me. I just don't want to eat.
It's usually better at dinner. I can eat dinner. Lunch
has become a That's why I'm so like, oh my gosh,

(05:06):
I hate lunch today. I'm working on it. I'm working
on it. I have a friend who is a nurse.
I've talked to you about it, and she's like, you know,
some people just that's they only eat one meal day
and that's fine. And so I'm trying to figure out
if it's like a I've just changed, Maybe that's it.
But I had a reaction recently that was very telling,

(05:28):
where I was like, you have to eat you have to.
I have like alarms where I'm like, go do it,
and I like try to get into the kitchen and
my boy just starts shaking and I was like crying,
and I was like, oh, I had a fear response
to this, Like it was very eye opening, and I

(05:49):
had to like talk myself down. I had to do
all these things like convince myself to go in there,
and it kind of afterwards and I did eat afterwards, though,
I kind of had a laugh about it because it's
another way I've become like Peaches.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Funny to watch you eat and antagonize you like her.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Is so difficult to get to eat, Like you have
to do these things in case you don't know, I
think listeners probably do. But Peaches is Samantha's dog.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
My dog. That's a little little extra when it comes
to food. It's both somehow a game and hoarding. But
I can't get her to eat without people. You have
to watch her, yeah, or she doesn't eat. And it's
also a battle because she wants you to make her angry,
like it's a weird it's resource guarding, but not like
I don't know what to do with her.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's a delicate dance. The first time I watched Peaches,
it was I've gotten better at it now, but I like,
please just.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Eat right essentially, Like that's what we're yelling at her
the entire time.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Everyone just eat. And that's where I am. That's where
I come on, Please just do it. And the thing
is like when I do, it's fine, and when I
go out with people, I always enjoy it. I like
trying new things, so I don't want people to feel
any certain way about, Oh God, she's miserable this whole time.

(07:17):
That's not what it is. It's just some it's some
reaction I've had, and I think I've built it up
over the pandemic where I'm just getting used to like
eating more. It's I get it so full, so fast,
and it's not fun anyway. I think it's kind of

(07:37):
that it's an unholy matrimony of my worst habits. And
this is terrible to admit, but to me, eating feels
like self care. It feels like you care about yourself.

(08:00):
Sometimes it's hard to convince me, like why should I eat?
I don't care. The fit attitude of twenty twenty has
been hard for me to shake. So there's that and
I swear I'm not joking about this. I do have
something like OCD. I got tested for it and everything.

(08:20):
So I have these things that I have to do,
numbers wise and volume wise, and now I can't do them,
which is making me miserable. And like I was also
raised the very you know, you can't waste any food,
which is you know, laudable in some ways. And I

(08:44):
don't waste food. But the problem now is I can't
eat that much. So today for lunch, I had soup
that I made on New Year's Date and I've been
eating it. Don't worry I froze it. I'm not taking
that risk. But I've been eating it like every day,
and what is it the twenty third It doesn't make
that much soup. Even I get a little tired of

(09:07):
things after a while. So that's begun kind of an issue.
They don't want to waste food, but now it's can
I hate this soup for the twenty third day? I
don't know. And I've always hated grocery shopping. I went
to the grocery store today. I told Samantha. They completely
remodeled it. So I felt like I lost my mind.

(09:28):
I was like, am I in the right place that
really makes to trip.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
You up a different version of it, and you're like, oh,
it's on the opposite side.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
I was so turned about, but I went right before
the pandemic. I went grocery shopping with a friend and
she was like, you know, I almost didn't believe you,
but you're visibly anxious. You really hate this. And I
was like, yes, I really hate it, So I have
to like build myself up to do that too. It's

(09:57):
just so frustrating. I'm like, this is so silly. Why
are you making this ugh? But I have all these
things and playees that have the clock, the alarms, but
I I've just made it so much worse. I think
in some of the way, some ways my like protections
of like the alarm has made it worse. Now I'm

(10:21):
more anxious. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
That could be like the when you play a certain
sound or a certain song and you hear it repeatedly
as a reminder of something, and it just gives you
more ick than that thing.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, and I always know it's coming, and no one
likes the alarm, right, Like that sound is meant to
be kind of.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Annoying.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, And I also deal in extremes. I think even
I take healthy things and I turn them into unhealthy things.
And I'm trying to be better. You know. I've talked
about this recently, like finding the middle ground, like you
hang out too much or you don't do any I
need to find the middle ground, right and that's what
I need with the with eating, And it does feel

(11:03):
sort of like self sabotage, like it's very yeah, good,
Why I don't want to eat? Why should I? I
know why I should. It's just it gets hard to
care after a certain points, especially if I got tired.
And actually I was looking this up because I was

(11:24):
trying to figure out what in the world is this?
But it is tied to sleep and lack of sleep.
You can get very like I'm just too tired to
fight this fight right now, I'm just gonna go to bed.
Why should I do it? So it's not good, But

(11:46):
I have been working on it, and I have made progress.
I ate lunch and dinner yesterday. But I mean, the
thing is like it I might just be changing. And
I'm not going to say there's no stress involved, because
clearly there is a panic attack just trying to go
into the kitchen. But I have been working on it,

(12:13):
and I have been adjusting, and I'm like, maybe you
just have to have a really small lunch and that's fine.
So it's one of those things of kind of relearning
how to listen to my body and also accepting it.
I've just changed in some ways and that's okay. But

(12:33):
for anyone listening, if you relate, I see you. But
also I want you to know I do for all
of this. I do love food, and I love sharing
meals with people. I love sharing meals with you, Samantha, Like,
it's not it's just when I'm alone, I think it

(12:54):
gets really bad. But you see me. I get full
and I'll get sick. Yeah, but pushed too hard, so
I gotta be I just gotta be more vigilant. But yeah,
all those New Year's messages don't help. And that's the
thing is none of this is a like about weight
loss or anything like that. This is just some kind

(13:15):
of stress, something that's happened. But yeah, here's hoping I
will have better eating habits in the year and I'll
be able to reconnect more with that joy that I
do have. But I would love to build it, build

(13:36):
it up more because I miss it. I miss when
you like take that first bite to something and it's
just so amazing instead of me being like, I hope
I'm not sick later. Yeah. Anyway, thanks for coming along
on this ramble with me. As always, we hope all
of you are well. I know it's tough out there,

(14:00):
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