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When you take pleasure in overeating.

 

[Granite]

When you start damaging your body. It's certainly possible (and fun) to indulge, but all things in moderation.

 

[Aimiel]

Probably when walking to the restroom gets one out-of-breath. I have relatives who are so overweight their color and respiration suggests that they're out-of-breath just sitting still, for whom three plate-fulls of food per meal (three to four meals per day) isn't even enough, they still snack on everything imaginable between meals.

 

[Nick M]

When you take pleasure in overeating.

That was pretty much my thought on the subject.

 

[Town Heretic]

toldailytopic: When does overeating become gluttony?

:think: Thanksgiving...maybe Christmas, depending on whether or not I'm dining with the in-laws.

 

[GuySmiley]

I would say when over-eating becomes a controlling force in your life. This is a hard one to put a hard definition on, now that I think of it.

 

[andyc]

When I was In America some time back I was sitting in a Ryans restaurant (in champagne IL) and while looking out the window I saw a 4X4 pull up and a huge guy got out, then a huge wife got out, and finally two big round kids got out. And as they waddled into the restaurant I was spying on them wondering what they'd be eating. The woman must have shoveled an entire farm on her plate piled as high as a mountain. I have never seen anything like it before in my life :chuckle:

That was gluttony like I've never seen.

 

[The Barbarian]

When eating becomes a recreation. I'm prone to it. On the weekend, making a big pot of Herrera's bean soup, or a nice shrimp remoulade, and having an extra helping that I clearly don't need, that's gluttony.

As C.S. Lewis wrote, it can be as simple as being unsatisfied unless one's toast is browned just so.

 

[Granite]

When I was In America some time back I was sitting in a Ryans restaurant (in champagne IL) and while looking out the window I saw a 4X4 pull up and a huge guy got out, then a huge wife got out, and finally two big round kids got out. And as they waddled into the restaurant I was spying on them wondering what they'd be eating. The woman must have shoveled an entire farm on her plate piled as high as a mountain. I have never seen anything like it before in my life :chuckle:

That was gluttony like I've never seen.

Fat people in general tend to really drive me nuts.

I come from a slender, fit, properly-fed family, and to see over-eating and obesity especially in children completely infuriates me.

 

[andyc]

Fat people in general tend to really drive me nuts.

I come from a slender, fit, properly-fed family, and to see over-eating and obesity especially in children completely infuriates me.

In the UK we don't tend have all-you-can-eat restaurants, so it was interesting to see how much people were able to put away. I never stayed long enough to see what desert they had.

 

[chrysostom]

when you start gaining weight

 

[Granite]

In the UK we don't tend have all-you-can-eat restaurants, so it was interesting to see how much people were able to put away. I never stayed long enough to see what desert they had.

I've seen some similar horror shows at the Old Country Buffet.:shocked:

I don't know why something so simple seems so impossible for some folks. It's self-discipline; it's what and how much you eat, which is one of the basics. Whenever I'm out in public it looks like I'm adrift in a sea of lard, and it's downright disgusting. Put. Down. The. Fork.

 

[andyc]

Put. Down. The. Fork.

ha ha!

 

[Aimiel]

I've gone to an all-you-can-eat buffet diner with my in-laws... ONCE. Never again. Plate after plate, piled with food of all sorts. I lose my appetite just seeing them eat.

 

[Dena]

I would say when over-eating becomes a controlling force in your life.

I think I would agree with this whether or not the person realizes it. I'm not sure how one could not realize it but that does seem to be the case at times.

 

[Paulos]

when you start gaining weight

They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge a glutton by his blubber?

 

[MaryContrary]

I'm a little disturbed at the idea that something isn't considered a sin until it reaches the point of addiction or its destructive effects have become obvious...

 

[Aimiel]

I've always been more than a bit sarcastic about someone screaming at the top of their lungs at others to repent, standing in the pulpit at more than 100 lbs. overweight. I often wonder how many who see his message reject it simply on the grounds of his gluttony, being poor and hungry themselves. :think:

 

[Granite]

I've always been more than a bit sarcastic about someone screaming at the top of their lungs at others to repent, standing in the pulpit at more than 100 lbs. overweight. I often wonder how many who see his message reject it simply on the grounds of his gluttony, being poor and hungry themselves. :think:

...standing there in a nine hundred dollar suit, wearing a five hundred dollar watch, wearing three hundred dollar loafers, with his chauffeured car waiting to take him back to his six-bedroom house.

So yeah.