Glut Integrity Analysis

The vice that I decided to examine was gluttony. I chose this vice considering I enjoy eating food a lot. Sometimes when it comes to sweets I have very low self-control. In this class we talked about Gluttony and how it is a disordered desire for food and drink. Luckily for me I don’t really desire a lot of drinks. I mostly stick to water but sometimes I do go overboard on coffee. In order to really see how gluttony affects me I actually reflected on this vice for 2 weeks. The first week I ate anything that I wanted but wrote it down, the second week I tried to curb my appetite and ate only things that I needed. Over those two weeks I realized that I was putting a lot of things into my body that I really did not need. The second thing I realized was by eating unnecessary foods I was actually making myself even more hungry and craving unhealthy things. I would crave these unhealthy foods so much that when I did eat them I would only focus on the foods and not my surroundings. …show more content…
Food contains nutrients that allow humans to function in their daily lives. The one thing that I found during my two-week reflection was how much junk food I was actually eating. Eating sweets in moderation can be a pleasure that is not disordered, but if you eat sweets three times a day everyday, then that is a disordered desire. I found that I would eat some sort of sweet three times a day for the entire week. Considering the school cafeteria has a lot of different desserts set out everyday it was very easy to just grab one and head to class. When I looked back at my journal I realized how many sweets I was eating and how it just became a habit to just take them. In a way my desires were disordered considering I was eating too much. I counted the calories and noticed I was eating way more calories than what I was burning. I was eating to excess and it really affected me in ways I did not notice until the next week when I controlled what I ate even