photos: anna wegelin / karinaSome people have problems with sleepwalking. I'm foodwalking. I eat food all the time. I do fruit snacking while I'm working, my bed changes into candy land while I'm watching movies and everytime I'm supposed to dream about fresh oysters in France or smoking hot pancakes on a Sunday, I'm doing my nightly food walk straight to the kitchen. Mostly it happens during a full moon phase or everytime I'm trying to lose some bacon (that usually never works out). Whenever I open the fridge door, I'm grabbing randomly to any kind of food.
I snack pizza, cheese, soup, leftovers and basically everything eatable, no matter if it's hot or cold. Don't get me wrong, I'm not eating proper meals only tiny bits, but still. My family & good friends know about my nightly food affair, I don't wanna name it a problem, even though it feels weird sometimes. For instance last night I went to the pitch dark kitchen to get some taco cheese flavored chips and I was just like what the fuck am I doing here? What was the trigger that made me do this?
Perhaps I had a nightmare, or imagine I had a good dream about food and then I was like, okay let‘s make this dream come true, who knows? Sometimes I wonder If I would stop, if I had a boyfriend next to me, but there is no one. Okay that's not true, my teddy bear is there, but whenever I ask him he looks up to me with his reddish evil eyes and he says: „Go and get that bacon Gurl“.
It feels like I'm seeking for happines 24/7 and I'm not even scared satisfying my needs at all hours.
But how far can I go and how much can I eat? Does my stomach have a limit? Obviously not. Should I try to stop, do I have to feel disgusted?
I don't know why, but it feels like some sort of natural foodoo to me. What about an exorcism? Dear god have mercy on me, release my body from that bacon and let me go? Nah, it might be hopeless and the truth is I don't wanna stop. It makes me giggle already in the morning and that sounds like a good way to start the day, right?
Although Dr. Wikipedia tells me something about SRED the Parasomnia sleep-related eating disorder. That sounds like some heavy shit man. I feel confused now, honestly. One second ago I was fine, now I‘m having an eating disorder? I should snack about it and start the day right with a nutritious breakfast and that's the point.
If you take care of your body with sports and healthy food, a nightly food affair won't break your neck.
Happy night eating folks!
photos: annawegelin / karina