If I ate too much, I knew it immediately because I would feel sick.
My mother blamed me for being overweight because I ate everything she gave me.
The more American foods I ate, the more my desires multiplied, outpacing any interest in Vietnamese food.
The carrot cake at lunch was so delicious that I ate two pieces.
Before I started getting up early, I ate my first meal around 2 PM (not exactly the picture of health either).
"The minibar thought I ate everything in it, " said Mr. MacKenzie, director of communications for VisitPhoenix, the Arizona city's tourism bureau.
For five years, I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner at my desk.
Ravenous and forgetful, I ate what they gave me, no matter what.
If I am overweight, it is because I have eaten too many calories over time, not because I ate too much yesterday.
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On the first night of my homestay, I ate dinner at the CBT office and then slipped and sloshed back down the road toward my house.
"Some of this is genetic, and I may have done some damage in those years when I was too careless about what I ate, " he said.
Once in a while I skipped lunch, even though it was part of my salary, and went in to Amundsen, where I ate in a coffee shop.
Around Fribourg, an area in western Switzerland that rises between two big lakes, I ate a pure Vacherin fondue, instead of the mix of cheeses that is common.
And when the staff brought out big, thick, gooey, homemade cookies during a break, I was already so far outside my circle of guilt that I ate three of them.
On a recent jaunt down the sunny slopes and around snowy downtown, I ate meals that would have delighted me had I dressed up for them in dreary, food-obsessed New York.
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"I was a typical American consumer - I shopped a lot, I ate most of my meals in take-out containers, I took cabs everywhere, " said Michelle, a journalist with a weekly business magazine.
The fact that she used to give me 250g of sweets each morning going to school from primary school and insisted I ate everything on my plate didn't occur to her that might be the problem.
My friend Mark, a collector, believes much the same thing although the last time I ate dinner at his house, he served two wines that I consider second-bottle types, 1998 Soldera Brunello normale and 1998 Soldera Brunello riserva.
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Here's a Fourth of July I won't forget to tell my grandkids about: the time I ate a dinner of leathery ham steak and partially thawed frozen peas, alone, in the bar of the Horseheads Holiday Inn.
One such superstition tells us that eating poultry on New Year's Day means you will financially struggle for the coming year, which I really wish I had known before I ate chicken with mixed vegetables on January 1.
On the stunted commercial street in town, there were three places still open for business, one of them the diner, and I ate there once and stuck my head in the door two or three times, scanning the booths.
When she made apple pies, Willie Pearl would give me pieces of dough and fruit to make a pie in my own little pie tin (when she made chocolate pies I ate the filling before I could make my pie).
If you have read anything about gastronomy in the last decade, you have probably seen your share of what Slate called the I Ate at El Bulli piece, describing the experience with a level of detail usually reserved for high-class erotica.
But I ate hot pot growing up in the 1970s and '80s in South Carolina, and if my mother and father could find enough ingredients there to prepare the gut-busting hot pot meals we had at our house, you can find them anywhere.
On a recent vacation in London, I dined at a much-buzzed-about new Gordon Ramsay venture (the York and Albany) and some trendy Soho tables, but the best meal I ate was a simple lunch at this unprepossessing "caff" in the East End hipster-ville of Shoreditch.
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