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I received the following request via an email discussion list I am a part of. It sounds like an interesting project and I’m reposting the request here in case anyone is interested in participating. Send submissions and/or questions to Sarah at sarahryahm at yahoo dot com

Hello all. I’m a radio producer and grad student creating an audio documentary about the so-called obesity epidemic from fat perspectives. I’ve done a lot of interviews at this point but there are still a few things I’m missing and I was hoping some of you on the list would be willing to help me out.

First of all I’m trying to get at the obsessive way we are taught to think about food in our culture and all the layers of guilt and obligation and emotion that go into eating a simple meal (are there too many calories in this? too many carbs? am I bad? am I good? is it locally grown? is it too expensive? is it organic? will people judge me if they see me eating this? this reminds me of my grandmother’ s cooking so I love this meal. this makes me feel healthy. this makes me feel unhealthy, etc.) I’m going to create an audio montage based on people’s internal scripts about food. I’m hoping to collect the thoughts of a wide variety of people over email and then hire voice actors to create the montage. Would any of you be willing to send me your internal thoughts. The thoughts you still have, the thoughts you used to have, etc.

I’m going to use this to demonstrate the complexity surrounding our relationship to food right now and the type of obsessive self-regulation demanded of us as citizens.

Anyone interested. If so just email me your thoughts. a paragraph, a few sentences, etc.

The thoughts you have or used to have when you sit down to eat a meal, buy food in the grocery store.

If you have positive thoughts please by all means send those along as well!!!!