Are there people who aren't fussed by food?

[Martacus]

I'm someone who loves food. I'm often thinking about my next meal and I get excited when my local deli does a new sandwich filling.

I wondered if there are many people who are not like me, and don't get that much pleasure out of food? (Just like I don't get pleasure out of e.g. watching sport, which loads of people love).

Are there people who eat mainly to not be hungry anymore and don't think food is very exciting? Or does everyone love food?

My husband is completely this. He eats to live. He's got a really nice slim body. 🙂

My DH. He is a very fussy eater and never seems to be hungry. Beer, on the other hand😬😂

Ive heard there's people that just eat because they have to but not because they like food. They'll happily eat the same meal everyday! I'm the complete opposite, I love food!

i only eat when my stomach rumbles generally. I’m not excited by food at all and hate cooking, according to my hubby I’m a very good cook, “can cook won’t cook”

I can look at a menu and not fancy anything, I end up with a coffee and cake. I had a friend that only ever thought about her next meal immediately after just eating, she drove me bats with it.

my poor husband isn’t overweight, he loves tinned fish and if he’s hungry before me he snacks on these.

When he works away I pretty much have porridge at meal times, that’s how uninterested I am with food 🤷‍♀️

I'm obsessed with food. I wish I wasn't. Not just eating... shopping for it, cooking. I read cook books like they're novels. I watch cooking programmes on TV. The only time I didn't care was when I had just finished having real flu. I was totally meh about food and only ate to get rid of the hunger pains. I got zero pleasure from it. If I could feel like that all the time, I wouldn't be overweight

Me, kind of. I love cooking but actually eating the result? I could take it or leave it. Like a PP on the first page if I could take 'meal pills' instead of actually eating, I probably would. I'm sure in my case it's influenced by having IBS so I struggle to enjoy food as there's always a background 'is this going to give me a flare up?' thought.

Me. I have ARFID and eat quite a small selection of foods I consider 'safe'.
Going to an unfamiliar restaurant terrifies me as does trying new food. I don't get excited about food, in fact I find it all very stressful.

I force myself to be sociable around food but it's bloody hard work!

I used to not be bothered, definitely ate to live.

I completely changed my diet and it really inspired me. I now absolutely love my food and spend hours looking at recipes, shopping and cooking.

I have a friend who isn't bothered.

I will never understand it.

My stepdad is like this, he has literally eaten the same lunch every day at work for the past 40 years. Just gets no pleasure or excitement out of food, purely eats to prevent hunger. Extremely judgemental regarding others eating.

DH isn't terribly adventurous, doesn't do spicy, isn't interested in trying anything new. Happily loved on very simple sandwiches and freezer food. Will eat what I cook and will say it's nice but never raves, never had a yearning for certain food etc.
He has a sweet tooth so if there's dessert on the house he'll eat it but never to excess.
Foods just "nice"

I agree. I can't imagine anything more joyless than not finding anything at all that you enjoy eating.

The only time I haven't fancied food is when I have been ill.

I can't imagine anything more joyless than not finding anything at all that you enjoy eating.

We just find joy elsewhere 🤷🏼‍♀️

I wouldn’t say that I’m not fussed by food but I do think most food is actually a bit rubbish so I don’t get excited by most things. I’d rather have the ability to not eat than put up with eating something meh. Most restaurant food is not worth it and the quality of fruit & veg as well as prepared foods has gone massively downhill as things have been bred/formulated for durability and uniformity instead of for flavour and nutrition.

I'd be a lot more interested in food if I didn't have to cook it! I hate cooking and it takes all the joy out of it for me. So I will enjoy a really nice restaurant meal (but has to be good quality). And if I lived with someone who would cook me those types of things, then I would look forward to dinner. As it stands, I end up eating something low effort (only me to cook for now).

So on that basis, I'd be happy with a daily pill that fulfilled my nutritional needs and the occasional meal out. I don't really eat much sweet stuff or snacks. So I'd say food rarely excites me.

I think that as science advances there will be increasing evidence of why some people crave food more than others and how not feeling full leads people to over eat
Obesity is much more complex than the age old mantra of eat less move more
Overweight people are not stupid and if it was that simple nobody would be overweight
I believe it is an interaction between physiology, psychology and environment which leads to overeating and as we learn a "cure" will be found. Semaglutide etc being a start

I’ve had a very stressful and have completely gone off food. Everything tastes boring and bland and I hate having to decide what’s for tea every single night. I don’t cook it as DS loves to cook and sometimes tells me what he wants to cook and that’s so much better. I hate shopping even more. I only really eat to avoid people asking why I’m not eating. This is not a good thing!

I enjoy good food and fancy cooking when I have the time, trying new cuisines or recipes, that kind of thing. But cooking bog-standard weekday dinners is boring and if not for DH I would happily just eat toast or cereal or something if not craving something specific. I'm never tempted by impulse snacks at the checkout and find it kind of mind boggling to eat when not genuinely hungry, however nice the stuff on offer is (has caused workplace cake drama before 🙃)
Not sure what that makes me.

She was healthy-thin rather than emaciated. A weight most people would be trying to achieve. Kate Middleton not Kate Moss.

Ds, if I didn't 'nag' him he simply wouldn't eat at all. Dd is autistic she will eat, but has a very restrictive diet. Dh likes food, but he'll seldom venture from the 'meat and two veg' mantra.
Me? Well I love trying new food, I'll eat pretty much anything, and my kitchen is full of cook books although I get fed up of making good meals only for the heathens to decry it's not ham egg and chips.

@stayathomer ,

have to inwardly hold on all the sighs at my WhatsApp groups being so full of food talk

That would also be me, posting pics of exciting food 😂

Looking at some of the eating schedules described on here - such as not eating a meal till dinner other than a slice of toast - if I were to do the same, it would take immense willpower and a lot of self-denial.

If I could take a pill that would give me everything I need and too the hunger from not eating I would. Food to me is a chore

I am a bit like this. I don't deliberately restrict and there are times I get a lot of pleasure out of eating but often there's nothing I fancy and I would rather not eat than force myself to eat when there's nothing I really want. Feeling hungry doesn't bother me that much. I know some people will read this and think I must be deluding myself about not deliberately restricting but I'm honestly not. Whenever i want something I eat it, although I never feel the need to eat loads of one thing. Food is really not a big deal to me. I realise how lucky I am to not have the 'food noise' that others describe.

So just slim then? I thought when you said 'really thin' at the start of your post that you meant your friend was really thin/underweight.