One More Bite

I think I have the opposite of an eating disorder.

I see food,

I want it,

I eat it.

I have almost no control of myself.

Even when I donā€™t want it,

Even when Iā€™m not hungry.

If thereā€™s food,

I justā€¦ get it.

It feels like a physical tug on me,

Pulling me to whatever it is.

When I get home from school,

Itā€™s a strain in my arms,

My chest,

My skin

To not immediately walk to the fridge.

And I stop and analyze my stomach.

Iā€™m not hungry.

I donā€™t want that food.

And I justā€¦

Canā€™t help it.

One snack.

Then another.

And another.

And another.

Until Iā€™ve had a little bit of everything I like.

Until thereā€™s nothing even left for me to eat.

Notā€¦ eat, exactly.

More like nibbling on different foods.

Bites.

And I always need one more bite.

I want to stop.

I donā€™t want to eat that.

I want to know I have some ounce of control over myself.

I want to wait for dinner

Because I donā€™t even want that food.

But thenā€¦

Just one more bite.

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