Author Topic: Do you commit gluttony if you eat till you feel full? (multiple times a day) (Read 11010 times)

bookofbirds · « **on:** September 10, 2025, 10:37:25 PM »

I'm a healthy BMI but still look underweight a bit. I love to eat multiple times through out the day but wondering if this could constitute gluttony because it isn't completely necessary despite me feeling good physically after. I'd rather cut out the food than lose my soul.

I know there was another thread posted here asking if weight training in the gym was inherently sinful because the amount of food one needs to eat to maintain shape and Ladislaus posted an interesting thoughtful response. I couldn't find it on the search. I'm also interested in going to the gym myself to be more masculine (less wimpy) and it helps with my anxiety/ADHD. Thank you

SimpleMan · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2025, 10:45:37 PM »

I wouldn't worry about it. Nothing sounds gluttonous about what you describe. Evidently you have a robust metabolism and the food does not put extra weight on you (describing yourself as underweight makes it sound as though you could actually afford to eat a bit more).

We have to keep our health up. Everyone has different needs regarding food intake.

LakeEnjoyer · « **Reply #2 on:** September 11, 2025, 09:55:14 AM »

Eating till you’re full isn’t gluttony in itself - gluttony is eating without reason or just for pleasure. If you look a bit underweight, have a healthy BMI, or are going to the gym, then eating more is ordered to health and strength, which is a good thing

Seraphina · « **Reply #3 on:** September 11, 2025, 02:53:11 PM »

If you are eating because you are hungry and stopping when you feel full, that’s not gluttony. Actually, some people need to eat in this manner, many smaller meals throughout the day instead of the standard American three meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, dinner being the largest meal before bedtime. It’s generally better to eat one’s main meal midday for in the morning than close to bedtime. It’s the way the economic and educational systems in the US are set up that have come to dictate when and how much one eats.
Gluttony would be continuing to eat even after full, for the pleasure of eating. If done somewhat, not regularly it is a venial sin. If it is habitual, to the point of becoming physically ill, or of eating a peculiar, unhealthy, or in a compulsive manner,nit is probably a mortal sin.

bookofbirds · « **Reply #4 on:** September 11, 2025, 03:48:52 PM »

Appreciate all your responses.

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Author Topic: Do you commit gluttony if you eat till you feel full? (multiple times a day) (Read 11010 times)

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