Story: Cat’s Tongue

How was it then?

In Japan, if you always end up burning your tongue on hot food or drinks, they say you have a “cat’s tongue” (猫舌, nekojita). I would always tell people this as I burned my tongue on whatever I was eating. I would burn my tongue several times a week because I couldn’t wait for the food to cool down before I ate it. If there was food in front of me, I had to eat it NOW. There was no later.

~ A Food Addict

How is it now?

Now, I have the patience to cook meals, which I lacked before, and I also have the patience to wait to eat my meals when the time is right.

Sometimes my meal will be all ready and waiting for me, but I just have to attend to one thing before I eat, and I am perfectly capable of doing that thing, calmly and properly, and then returning to start my meal when it is done.

This was not possible before. The full equation was, “food = eat”. There was no getting between me and my food, even if it meant that I would have a sore and uncomfortable mouth for days.

~ A Recovering Food Addict