I wasn't raised religious, I feel like that's necessary context for everything I'm about to write.
I always found the idea of Gluttony being a deadly sin kind of... baffling. It's not nearly as extreme as envy, or as dangerous as wrath, or even as obviously criticizable as sloth. Like, they SAY you shouldn't gourge yourself on food or whatever, but... why not? People associate it with gaining weight, and maybe that's true on some front, but in my experiance your motabolism has a lot more to do with whether you gain weight or not, and how much you actually eat has very little bearing on it. Like, some people can hold onto fat for a really long time even from small meals, and honestly I kind of wish that were me I'm kind of just skin and bones, but Other people (myself included) kind of just burn through everything in our bodies no matter how much we eat. People will be like "ohh that's so good that must mean you're skinny" I'm not, I'm just at a consistent weight and no matter how much I eat it doesn't change. Also fuck the idea that being skinny is inherently good.
Fatphobia was obviously drilled into me since I was a kid too, it's like that with everyone, but I had the 'benifit' of being a chubby kid, and the Actual benifit of normal loving parents who taught me how to properly react when shamed for my body. Which is to say not react at all and stop giving a fuck. This led into me really not giving a fuck when people criticized my eating habits either. Because, like, what the fuck do they care? And what the fuck do they know? I was told as a kid that - no joke - I 'shouldn't eat food just because I'm bored' and at THAT point in my life I had never done that, like, ever. Nowadays I DO eat out of boredom and frankly it's just fun. And also doesn't even fucking matter.
I feel like religion really likes beating into people the idea that material pleasure and gain is ultimately pointless and corrupting. That nothing good can ever come out of physical pleasures and material wealth. It's no secret that religious doctrine bleeds into everyday ideas and expectations, and beauty standards are no different, far from it. I've heard legit horror stories from people who got into weight loss trends and tried insane diets and got actual EDs in an effort to Look Skinny, and the amount of morality and shame and guilt they ascribe to food and eating is just plain horrifying to me. It's an actual worshipping of an ideal bodytype with religious-like shame tied to something fundamental to human existance. I can't imagine living like that! And exactly because these disorders are so rampent in the modern day I think it's kind of important to directly challange those narratives by saying: Food Is Good Actually, and you shouldn't feel guilt for eating, period. Yeah I had enough food that I'm not technically hungry anymore, but also I like the food and I CAN eat more. Why would I stop. What's the problem with just... having carnal pleasures?
I'm not a philosopher but I really don't think I need to be one to say that Having Fun Is Good Actually, and Eating Isn't A Moral Dilemma. Ascribing moral weight to amoral ideas is just plain dangerous. Is it immoral to eat more than you need to, just because you can? I don't know man, is it immoral or corrupting to pick up a rock and place it somewhere else, even if it wasn't in my direct path when I did so? Do you hear how mental that sounds? That's how discussions around food morality sound to me. This might be kind of an out-there take, but I feel like eating For Fun is comperable to masturbating. Like, yes, both of them are tied to actual physical needs at their core, but I think a lot of us would be lying if we said we'd never jacked off just out of boredom, because we had some time alone what we didn't know how else to fill. Is that bad? Is it ~shameful~ that you do things that feel good just for the sake of feeling good? Why the fuck would it be? Who gives a shit? How am I less of a vitrous person for choosing to do things that make me feel happy just for doing them? It's not martyrdom to deny yourself good and pleasurable things, I don't care what the churches say, it's just a denial of the self that you gain nothing from.
If you HAVE carnal pleasures, you're less likely to seek out indirect pleasure. Like, yeah, I eat more than my fill, but you know what I DON'T do? Get pleasure from making fun of people less fortunate than me. I'm not saying I'm a saint or whatever the fuck, I just think that not denying yourself simple pleasures will allow your brain to not twist into knots looking for OTHER forms of pleasure, that you might not even be aware you're doing. Not everything that feels good is immoral, and by god I wish people were just normal about food. It's fucking food. I wish we lived in a society where something to NECESSARY and INESCAPABLE for the human condition wasn't demonized on some arbitrary standards set by thousands of year old doctrines that were probably originally written in an attept to combat the fact that they didn't have proper medicine back then. I don't know, I'm rambling at this point, I just... I like eating I like gluttony I like stuffing my face with salty and oily things and I'll do it forever for the rest of time until I croak and after me there will be more people born with the same respectable drive to eat and eat and eat and have fun doing so.