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I am a practitioner of minimalism. I have not studied or paid attention to food. Therefore, when I find that there are "foodies" around me, I will inevitably look twice. , I was surprised.

A few days ago, at the training center, Xiao Yang from Hexi sat next to me during the lunch buffet.

Xiao Yang is a tall and thin girl, more skinny, with a slender appearance.

"Oh, Brother Deng, that's all you eat?" Xiao Yang stared at my plate and smiled.

Most of the food I picked up was vegetarian, and it was not enough to spread out on one plate. Her plate, on the other hand, had two layers of braised pork, ribs, hairtail, etc. It also came with soup, rice, and watermelon. I guess Three times as much as me, and more.

The person who is as thin as a bolt of lightning is also a foodie?

In order to prevent the horizontal development of my waistline, I deliberately eat less every day, but every time I have a physical examination, the doctor solemnly writes a two-word comment on me, "overweight" on the physical examination report.

Faced with eating, those who cannot lose weight are frightened, while those who cannot gain weight feel confident. Alas, it makes me cry even when I say it.

A classmate came to Changsha to visit his son, who is in his third year of high school. I invited them to dinner.

I asked the child what he wanted to eat, "I want a good meal!" The child's eyes were bright and shining.

"What does a good meal mean?" This term is a bit broad and not easy to understand, so I asked the child.

"I want to eat meat!"

I was shocked, I thought I was going to eat a full banquet.

We found a Hunan restaurant. The child ordered stir-fried beef, stir-fried pork with chili pepper, and stir-fried Changsha pork. Three plates of meat and vegetables were basically eaten by the child. He also ate four bowls of rice. Hum hum hum, cheerful and lively.

I really envy my child’s appetite. I am full after two bites, but he can still eat two more bites when he is full.

At the annual statistics meeting, I met an unknown acquaintance, a woman with a flexible and slender figure, the vitality of May spring and blooming flowers, graceful and gentle.

We often communicate by phone and exchange business data with each other, so we are familiar with each other. But we only hear their voices but don’t see their people, so we don’t recognize them.

Chinese food is also a buffet. We sit together and I say a few words and she says a few words.

The feeling she gave me was not because she was unfamiliar, but because she was unavailable. Her eyes never left the plate from beginning to end, concentrating on it and relishing it.

When I was eating half of the plate, she stood up and took back the second plate, which was piled up like a mountain of shrimps. When I was almost finished eating, she had already brought back the third plate, and she also brought a lot of Tobado fruits.

Probably the girls who can really eat are those who work quietly and hide their merit and fame.

I watched a video last time. A beautiful girl with a Beijing accent could eat a book at a time when she entered a restaurant. It was amazing. A book refers to a recipe book.

I guess that the slim woman in front of me is fully capable of eating two books.

I have a familiar male colleague from another department. The standard breakfast in the cafeteria every day is: three steamed buns, a meat bun, a chili bun, two bowls of porridge, and a bowl of noodles. Pick again.

"Zhongtiao", in Changsha dialect, means rice noodles or noodles, add one or two more.

That day he stood behind me, holding a plate in his hand, lining up to buy noodles.

I saw that in addition to the standard ones, there were two more dumplings on his plate. "Are you going to eat it yourself or take it away?" I always felt that he couldn't eat so much. After all, this is Enough for the four of us.

"You can eat it yourself. It's not much. I'll be hungry at eleven o'clock." He laughed, naively.

Life is about eating and drinking. Maybe he is right.

Some people have concluded that the book "Journey to the West" has only one theme, how to eat Tang Monk's meat. A fairy who can ascend to heaven and earth cares so much about this little appetite, let alone a trafficker and a mere pawn?

It sounds like this.

My wife’s food intake is about the same as mine, but she has a special characteristic that she can eat continuously.

After eating, I started peeling fruits and unpacking snacks. There was really nothing left at night, so I used boiling water to make a cup of jujube honey.

Normally, I am not willing to accompany her on the street. She always takes my arm and walks in the direction of the scent. On the way home, while smoking a cigarette, the person disappeared. When I turned around, I found her at the stall, chatting animatedly about food.

My wife’s favorite saying is, “Oh, I’ve eaten too much, so I need to exercise and lose weight.”

I have never believed this.

When foodies say they want to lose weight, they usually do it to entertain themselves when they are full. "Hitting a child on a rainy day means you are free when you are idle." This is a truth.

I don’t believe in exercise to lose weight either. Think about the time when second senior brother Bajie went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, walked hundreds of thousands of miles, and ate vegetarian food every day. Have you seen him become as thin as a monkey? Not as fat as a pig.

I have a treadmill at home. I bought it for 3,000 yuan. It has been for several years and my wife has not used it a few times. Later, I felt it was in the way and sold it to a junk shop for 30 yuan.

But there is one thing I quite admire about my wife. For a potato, an onion, or a bowl of flour, she can stay in the kitchen for most of the day, thinking carefully about whether she can make something beautiful and beautiful. Something delicious is coming.

As the saying goes, "Whether two people can stay together for a long time, three views are very important." But for a foodie, three meals may be more important.

Some people say that "foodie" is definitely a good word, which means that they have an appetite for food, a desire to love food, and the ability to choose what to eat.

But after sorting out the logical relationship, the deeper meaning of being able to eat, loving to eat, and knowing how to eat is "eating a lot", isn't it?

It's a bit of a secret change of concept and an attempt to hide something.

"I want to ride the wind back home, but I am afraid that my weight will not allow me to do so." Without establishing the determination to gain weight, I still choose to watch and silently watch the foodies go around. This is also a taste of life. .