The bulimic alternative

Was reading Scott Adam's post recently and he compared dogs to poop producing factories.

Couple that with my recent harder-to-wear-my-suit-cos-its-getting-too-tight-ness and I started thinking that I needed to cut down on my recent spate of indiscriminate tapioca chip consumption.

The economist in me started weighing out the downsides of getting fatter vs the utility of enjoying food. I'm almost certain most people, fat or thin think about this at some point in time. Larger, more rotund folk probably place a much higher satisfaction value on eating cheesecake till it hurts. Thinner people on the other hand, either worry more about the downside of getting fat, don't really value eating all that much, or have a 'system' that allows them to eat without getting fat.

Anorexia probably sits somewhere in between the first two reasons. The third reason is where I started channeling my lunchtime thinking energy (while I chowed down a Nasi Uduk from Esther's quasi-recommendation).

Here's my reasoning, assuming you like eating. A lot.

The basic premise is - input -> process -> output.

Whatever you eat goes in as input. What your body does is convert the input into output - burnt energy(exercise), stored energy(fat) & waste products(pee+poo). Fat happens when you have far more stored energy that you'll never need.

Now using this simple premise, it's quite easy to think about how to reduce the stored energy. Reduce input or increase output.

Eat a lot of rabbit food. E.g. salads, carrots, barleywheat grass, and you'll decrease the input of carbs which has been widely attributed to be the energy food. Exercise like you're an olympic contender and you'll burn more than (or at least close to) what you eat.

So what does the misguided 14-year-old girl do when she wants to get around this process ? She sticks her finger down her throat and hijacks the digestion process (thus limiting input) Which leads me to the topic of this post - why isn't there a similar process that 'encourages' waste products ?

Maybe there'll be a new medical option where people increasingly give themselves 'controlled' food poisoning that makes them increase the quantity of their waste expulsion without an increase in frequency.

Probably a bit harder to do than the-finger-into-throat process but you have to admit it offer the average 14-year old girl significant benefits over having puke-breath when she's just discovering boys.

Okay. My gross-o-meter just went 'ping'.