What was "deprived" 100 years ago?

Crafting Mom wrote in news:i6%cc.16994
:

Every now and then I see posts from people who say they indulge in soda
pop, ice cream, french fries, or fake replicas of all of the above, in
order to avoid feeling "deprived"...

It's funny how when each new thing is invented, suddenly to be on a diet
without that sort of thing is "deprivation". For me, pop, ice cream,
and french fries don't exist anymore.

I just wonder what suddenly, in this day and age, brings on this
deprivation mentality.

Most people are used to eating what the want to eat. For them, anything
short of that is deprivation.

Phil M.

--
"Pain is temporary: the success it brings can be everlasting."
-fortune cookie

Every now and then I see posts from people who say they indulge in soda
pop, ice cream, french fries, or fake replicas of all of the above, in
order to avoid feeling "deprived"...

It's funny how when each new thing is invented, suddenly to be on a diet
without that sort of thing is "deprivation". For me, pop, ice cream,
and french fries don't exist anymore.

I just wonder what suddenly, in this day and age, brings on this
deprivation mentality.

CM

In article ,
Crafting Mom wrote:
Every now and then I see posts from people who say they indulge in soda
pop, ice cream, french fries, or fake replicas of all of the above, in
order to avoid feeling "deprived"...

It's funny how when each new thing is invented, suddenly to be on a diet
without that sort of thing is "deprivation". For me, pop, ice cream,
and french fries don't exist anymore.

I just wonder what suddenly, in this day and age, brings on this
deprivation mentality.

Think of life without chocolate.


Chuck Demas

--
Eat Healthy | _ _ | Nothing would be done at all,
Stay Fit | @ @ | If a man waited to do it so well,
Die Anyway | v | That no one could find fault with it.
| \___/ | http://world.std.com/~cpd

Charles Demas wrote:
In article ,
Crafting Mom wrote:
Every now and then I see posts from people who say they indulge in soda
pop, ice cream, french fries, or fake replicas of all of the above, in
order to avoid feeling "deprived"...

It's funny how when each new thing is invented, suddenly to be on a diet
without that sort of thing is "deprivation". For me, pop, ice cream,
and french fries don't exist anymore.

I just wonder what suddenly, in this day and age, brings on this
deprivation mentality.

Think of life without chocolate.

It'd take me a LONG time to get over it, but eventually I'd adjust LOL.
CM

Every now and then I see posts from people who say they indulge in soda
pop, ice cream, french fries, or fake replicas of all of the above, in
order to avoid feeling "deprived"...

It's funny how when each new thing is invented, suddenly to be on a diet
without that sort of thing is "deprivation". For me, pop, ice cream,
and french fries don't exist anymore.

I just wonder what suddenly, in this day and age, brings on this
deprivation mentality.

Think of life without chocolate.

It'd take me a LONG time to get over it, but eventually I'd adjust LOL.
CM

I am a survivor of many things. When bad luck kicks in, I kick into gear, its
just me. I would be able to do without, what some people think they cannot do
without.

Put me out on a island, stranded. I know I would do great.



I do understand though, I used to think that way about foods, or items that I
would not be able to live without..

The more I work on myself, the more I know what my charachteristics are.

Crafting Mom wrote:

Every now and then I see posts from people who say they indulge in soda
pop, ice cream, french fries, or fake replicas of all of the above, in
order to avoid feeling "deprived"...

It's funny how when each new thing is invented, suddenly to be on a diet
without that sort of thing is "deprivation". For me, pop, ice cream,
and french fries don't exist anymore.

I just wonder what suddenly, in this day and age, brings on this
deprivation mentality.

"Deprivation" is simply doing without what you had before and still
wanting it.

I imagine that a urbanite 100 years ago moving out to a rural
countryside farm would feel deprived from the variety of things
available in a city, restaurants, museums, theaters, libraries, wide
variety of traded goods and foods.

You can get used to anything if you have to. That is simple. If forced
to we would all survive. I think the deprivation comes from the mix of
everything being SO accessible, yet not having it anyway.

I get bored with foods and enjoyed variety. Ethnic foods were big for
me. Chinese/Japanese/Indian were 2-4 meals a week. Now I've had them
only 3 times in 3 months. And many of my favorites I had to skip.
People talk about loosing taste for these things but I think that is
more psychological. I think over time people could easily reintroduce
favorite foods and get over them "not tasting good anymore".

DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)
350/304/Apr-299/200
Atkins since Jan 12, 2004
OWL-50 carbs/day (CCLL=?)

Probably because we're not 100 years old, and most of us grew up with
the things you mention. Fast food and convenience foods were not
available 100 years ago. JMO

--
Cheri

Type 2, no meds for now.
Crafting Mom wrote in message ...

Every now and then I see posts from people who say they indulge in soda
pop, ice cream, french fries, or fake replicas of all of the above, in
order to avoid feeling "deprived"...

Crafting Mom wrote:
:: Every now and then I see posts from people who say they indulge in
:: soda pop, ice cream, french fries, or fake replicas of all of the
:: above, in order to avoid feeling "deprived"...
::
:: It's funny how when each new thing is invented, suddenly to be on a
:: diet without that sort of thing is "deprivation". For me, pop, ice
:: cream, and french fries don't exist anymore.
::
:: I just wonder what suddenly, in this day and age, brings on this
:: deprivation mentality.

IMO, people should practice deprivation. Once you do so, you learn that you
can indeed do without particular food. We live in a world (most of us,
anyway) where food of nearly type is so readily available, that we've become
spoiled.

"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
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I just wonder what suddenly, in this day and age, brings on this
deprivation mentality.


Pure idiocy and lack of perspective is what brings it on.

"Sunshyne" wrote in message
...
Every now and then I see posts from people who say they indulge in soda
pop, ice cream, french fries, or fake replicas of all of the above, in
order to avoid feeling "deprived"...

It's funny how when each new thing is invented, suddenly to be on a
diet
without that sort of thing is "deprivation". For me, pop, ice cream,
and french fries don't exist anymore.

I just wonder what suddenly, in this day and age, brings on this
deprivation mentality.

Think of life without chocolate.

It'd take me a LONG time to get over it, but eventually I'd adjust LOL.
CM

I am a survivor of many things. When bad luck kicks in, I kick into gear,
its
just me. I would be able to do without, what some people think they cannot
do
without.

Put me out on a island, stranded. I know I would do great.



I do understand though, I used to think that way about foods, or items
that I
would not be able to live without..

The more I work on myself, the more I know what my charachteristics are.



You can't even spell "charachteristics".