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Binge eating comes from anxiety.

The current pandemic is a factory of anxiety.

Many of us blame Covid-19 for our overweight.

Sometimes I run out of popcorn.

I find myself wandering over to the cupboard while in lockdown even when I am all not that hungry. I have been leaning into my favorite comfort foods such as chocolates, bubble gum and popcorn, but someone ate them all.

“kuchisabishii” is a word in Japanese which means lonely mouth or longing to have or put something in one’s mouth​ or lonely mouth.

People use this word in Japan to mean stress or boredom eating.

The box of popcorn contains eight individual bags ready for the microwave.

If I am peckish after a long online meeting in the afternoon, I will be eating up to four individual portions, putting myself on the verge of binge eating.  Oriental or Western, my belly and my overall general health will resent it.

binge eating

binge eating

Kuchisabishii is similar to peckish in that it’s much more about the previous state of your stomach and mind before binge eating , than actual  hunger.

My girlfriend to the corner shop and bought some cheetos for my lonesome mouth.  She got the wrong kind,  so I grabbed her hair and she eagerly sucked my tong instead, so who was feeling more kuchisabishii now?

After this outcome, it is not difficult to imagine her mouth as frantic Pac-Woman on the hunt for ecstasy pills, looking for anything to keep it satisfied.  I have good news for her.  Our room mates just moved out, so now we have the whole kitchen for ourselves, so now I can give her all the hard candy that she craves without having to lock ourselves in the bedroom…

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