I’m not talking about while you’re eating, I’m talking about during the next couple hours after over eating. A food coma is absolutely the same feeling as a good high from some drugs. After eating a way too huge meal and laying on the couch i feel soooooo relaxed and floaty and drifting in and out of heavy sleep.
Ime you can get a similar feeling fasting, and then again when eating a normal amount after the fast.
Don’t mix up overeating with the human’s natural down phase during the mid day though. It’s normal for humans to feel tired after lunch, because humans took breaks during the day (kind of like Siesta in Spain).
Industrialization introduced the work from 9 to 5. In reality humans had a biphasic sleep schedule before that. We still experience some after-effects genetically from this in our circadian rythm. There’s actually several words in languages across Europe for this, i. e. in German “Mittagstief” (midday low).
Humans never worked as much for other people as they did this day and age, of course not counting the early days of industralization.
As someone who definitely did a few hours ago, I can tell that I do not feel good.
What ? Makes me feel ill
You’ve been using some shitty drugs, then.
Found some old death star a few weeks ago (that I smoked today) that is itself a few months old sitting in a sunny room. The cbn had me munching hard. 8 feel like poo poo.
The older I get the less I want to overeat. After big meals now if I don’t take a walk I feel like absolute garbage.
You know I had the same problem Two potential solutions: first, change what you gorge on. I eat a big bowl of popcorn most days (against MDs orders I fucking love popcorn) and all it is is empty fiber and butter. We stuff ourselves on Thai (love me some pad gra pao) instead of Chinese (they had the best sauce. Think sweet and sour, not dyed red, with extra garlic, onion greens, and some of that Chinese chile de árbol equivalent its fantastic. Fuck I need to make some and… Ooo I might be able to convince my mother to make beer battered beef bites I can dunk in the sauce I’ll let you know if I succeed because I have been refining this recipe for 20 years and the restaurant I’m copying from just closed. I guess I’m gorging on Chinese again)
Second solution is weed. Or zofran, but weed is more fun. Antiemetics.
Third solution, more of a potential solution to a potential problem, if overeating causes Satan’s Eyeball, they make great ointments to block and heal taco butt. If it doesn’t touch skin, it can’t hurt you (except emotionally).
You should listen to your doctor and your body when they are telling you “no”. Not trying to be preachy or shame you, but please consider your health and well-being.
I’m the opposite. I enjoy shoveling food in my face hole, but do not enjoy the feeling afterwards.
The problem with overeating, is once you need to stop yourself, it’s harder to - because you still need to eat. You still need to keep doing the thing that you’ve got a problem with.
Imagine if to “stop smoking”, you had to smoke 3x a day?
That’s why eating disorders are so damn hard for people.
That’s what I used to think, long ago. Ever since I discovered keto as an adult, it’s like the world has changed. It’s like finding the magic key after a lifetime of struggling with an invisible lock
Are you familiar with ‘jouissance’?
The drive continues past satisfaction into compulsion.
Pleasure is mixed with pain, shame, or guilt during/after the act.
It’s symbolic. Eating can act like a shortcut for dealing with other feelings or wants — it fills a need that words or thinking don’t fix.
I wasn’t familiar with the term (never studied Lacan) but I am offended by the concept of excess pleasure. No such thing.
I see enjoyment (jouissance) as a built-in surplus that pushes past satisfaction into something often painful or compulsive. Ideology hides this excess by promising straightforward fulfillment, but that promise produces the very leftover enjoyment it denies. The subject thinks it wants a clear goal, while an unconscious drive seeks the surplus; culture can redirect this surplus (sublimation) or it returns as symptoms (addiction, shame). So enjoyment isn’t just pleasure — it’s the extra push that both sustains desire and disrupts meaning.
You saying no such thing is a misunderstanding. Žižek links this surplus to the paradox that prohibiting pleasure produces a new form of enjoyment — the pleasure of prohibition. The ban sets up a forbidden object that becomes more desirable; the surplus (jouissance) then migrates into transgression or guilt, so prohibition itself generates the very enjoyment it aims to stop.
I’m curious to know specifically how this was experienced as offending
I despise being over full! Glad I’m not the only one in these comments. It just makes me feel sick.
I hate the feeling. But I do overeat sometimes, because I love eating tasty foods and can’t stop even when I’m full.
I’m the same. Love good food and little treats. The taste and the texture and the sensations overall. Yes please.
The aftermath, however, if I ever accidentally overdo it, is just a generally bad, nauseous feeling where it feels kind of “tight” inside, it’s harder to move, you feel bloated and tired, and only thing you can do to mend it is give it time and lay still. It’s bad. Can’t even imagine liking it to be honest. But I get that some (most?) may not feel so confined and anxious when just laying still. I have adhd which probably explains why I absolutely hate having to do that.
Feeling boated and about to puke and also incredibly sleepy is good?
Edit: not to mention, overeating is one of the many less discussed reason we’re in this climate mess…
For some people, yes.
It’s a survival mechanism.
We human animals were designed to live in the wilderness with no available food. We had to constantly be on the search for food or preparing it in order to survive. And when we found food, we gorged on it because we knew that there might not be another supply of food later.
Humans lived like that for thousands of years.
It’s only been very recently that the majority of us had a steady supply of food. There are starving populations but not as much as there was in the past.
We are designed and conditioned to be starving because we are not supposed to have freely available food all the time.
Maybe in a few thousand years we will adapt to having food around all the time.
But right now and for the foreseeable future, we’re going to have problems with our diet and health all the time unless we really apply our knowledge and self control to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
To be honest, this just sounds like sugar shock. If your blood sugar rises too fast for insulin to be able to counteract it, then you start getting symptoms like drowsiness, fatigue, and “high-ness.” This can feel good, but it is basically doing damage to your brain, so I am not sure that this would be good long term. Then again, I suppose the same can be said for (hard) drugs.
Ah, the ‘itis!
