Eating in secret: You're Not the Only One

I hide empty energy drink cans and candy wrappers under my mattress. …

I still remember the feeling of those things under the mattress, a little bump that was always there, reminding me. …

Does anyone else… I wonder sometimes if I’m the only one who carried little, almost imperceptible habits, from childhood into old age. …

I’m a personal trainer. …

It’s instant ramen. …

And then you’re 60 and you’re still working gig to gig, still making sure you look perfectly professional while secretly eating gummy bears from a hollowed-out notebook. …

Every single day, I accumulate empty energy drink cans and candy wrappers. …

Just instant noodles. …

I don’t know if this counts as a confession exactly I mean it’s not something I did wrong it’s more like a memory a particular kind of memory that still sort of… aches I guess you could say it’s been… …

So I'm a junior accountant, right? …

I mean, I’m a personal trainer. …

Like I’m a receptionist, right, and it’s my first real office job and everyone here is so… professional, and put together, and I’m trying to be that too, like I really am, I wanna do well and climb… …

I spent ten minutes in the third-floor ladies' room today, crouched in a stall with the door locked, eating plain saltines. …

I'm a fitness instructor, like, for a living, and I keep a bag of chocolate pretzels, the really good kind, in my gym locker. …

like, I'm a junior accountant, you know, and I keep this stash of beef jerky in my desk drawer—don't ask why—but I literally wait until my cubicle neighbors go to meetings to eat it. …

i literally only look forward to like 1030 am and 215 pm every single day at my internship it’s so BAD— i keep a whole STASH of beef jerky in my bottom desk drawer and like i wait til everyone goes… …

I know it’s bad, what I do, hiding that little bag in the back of my locker, buried under the clean towels. …

You know, sometimes you just find yourself in the pantry, in the dark, carefully unwrapping a really good chocolate bar... …

I spend all day at work pretending like I’m some big shot, like I’m so important, and then I’m home taking care of my kid all night but then I just sneak back to the office when she’s asleep so I can… …

I work as a personal trainer, you know, gig economy stuff – no benefits, always hustling for the next client. …