We’ve had a guest in our house over the Memorial Day weekend who is obese, who has also left signs behind in the kitchen.  It’s amazing to me to see how much someone needs to eat to maintain a massive body.  It shocks me to see so much food consumed – because I used to eat that much when I weighed 400+ pounds.

I found a whole empty box of cereal in the trash, after just 2 days.  They had eaten the entire box, late at night, in hiding.

I went to get the bar of cheese in the refrigerator I bought just a couple of days ago, but it was also missing.  Almost a pound of cheese was eaten in two days.

There were empty boxes of frozen foods; also consumed in hiding in the middle of the night.  Bottles of juice guzzled down.  All the leftovers – the fattening ones, not the vegetables – gone.

This is a really painful reminder of how I want to maintain my healthy eating: not just in types of food (no sugar, less fat, fewer carbohydrates, more vegetables and fruit) but mainly in amounts.  I could no longer handle so much food, but our guest eats this much all the time.  I watch what I eat, never having very much at one time, never having seconds, eating little snacks, and praying to never again return to compulsive overeating.