Still thinking about food...

Back during the Food Culture week, we were asked in class what food meant to us.  We were asked what we thought of, who we thought of, and where we thought of when food was mentioned.  I have been reflecting about this for the past week.  I often find myself thinking about food actually.

I realized that not only have I made food a priority in my life, it is an event.  I am guilty of posting pictures of my food on social media.  I do this when I am especially excited about food.  My posting are not of healthy food either.  It is of fattening, sugar filled food. Not only do I post pictures to social media of my food.  I often, and I mean often, write about food on social.  This again usually involves "guilty pleasures".  I comment on other people's pictures of food, "like" restaurants pages, tweet about restaurants, follow restaurants....etc.  My world kind of revolves around food.

One thing that is interesting is that when I look over my social media accounts with a food filter on I always am clarifying that this is a guilty pleasure in some fashion.  I don't just say "that was a great candy bar".  I always clarify it with a joke, question, or emoticon.  It made me realize that even though I do not post a food diet online nor do I talk about my healthy food choices, I am being affected by it.  There is a subliminal response to this social media food diet in my posts.  My guilt for eating bad is shown through my posts because something is causing me to feel guilty.

I am sure that most of guilt comes from the realization in numerous health classes that healthy eating is important, but after our discussions in class I think something else is going on.  I think that even though I think I am different from those people who post about diets, I am not. I am feeling pressure to justify my diet.  I am feeling pressure to release this burden of guilt.  What audience am I trying to impress? Why am I even posting pictures or statuses about my food anyway?

Food is a major part of my life.  It always has been and always will be.  I'm wondering if anyone would be interested doing an analysis on my social media with the filter of food.  Cluster Criticism anyone? Burke might be interested in this guilt problem I have going on.