Competitive Eating (Thanks, Byers Gets Diesel!)

I’m still under the corporate overlords’ thumbs, so I can’t post the stories I’ve been saving up for y’all. Maybe tomorrow!

In the interim, I recommend you read this incredibly smart blog post from Melissa Byers over at Byers Gets Diesel.

Competitive Eating by Melissa Byers

Here’s an except to whet your appetitite:
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“How often do we let competitive eating peer pressure get to us? And why do we do it? If our diets are clean, and we are happy with our performance, and our lives feel balanced, then why would we ever torture ourselves with trying to “keep up” with the next guy’s diet? It makes no sense, and yet I suspect we all fall into that trap once in a while.”