Eating alone...

Doesn't bother me at all at a fast food place like Carl's, but it does as a regular sit-down type restaurant with waiter service. Partly because it's more formal and because you're sitting there longer, whereas in fast food places people are just there long enough to wolf down their food and go. And in a regular restaurants there are usually lots of couples, families, etc. and so when you're sitting there by yourself for an hour or so it really feels like, well, like you're a loser,I guess!

I do that a lot. My husband works abroad and so it's basically part of my everyday existence. I cannot say though that I'm used to it. I do find it weird sometimes. And yes, I get conscious especially when what I'm eating has sauce on it or gravy or catsup and the like. It's kinda funny.

I actually enjoy eating lunch alone, I take a newspaper and read the sports section to relax

I do it all the time. My husband works odd hours so I have to eat my dinner alone. Ive gotten quite use to it. at least nobody hears you when you slap your lips.

I feel very weird when I eat alone. I feel like I am being judged. I am overweight and I think people are going, what is a fat person like her eating in a burger joint like this. Or doesn't she have any friends she can eat with.

I feel ya, it is a strange kinda feeling when you are eating alone. I tend to eat quicker when I am by myself

before i got married, i don't have a problem eating alone coz i seldom have the time to really focus on eating anyway (always running, work, business appointments, meetings). and the few times i have time to relax while eating, i enjoy people-watching. i guess they are the ones i tend to make conscious of themselves, not me, hehe. but during occasions, especially valentines, i won't dare eat alone in any place but home, lol!

yah me, too.. as much as possible, i find somebody to eat with me..ahah it feels weird when you bite on your food and nobody's eating with you..i feel as if everybody's staring at me..

i won't eat alone in public. i drive a truck and it's easier as a woman to just take my food back to the truck. the guys in the truck stops for some reason feel obligated to flirt with solo females no matter what they look like or whether they want to be left alone or not!

It sounds to me like you are used to eating lunch with other people at work. Me personally I usually eat alone when I am at work. I find for me that it is time to think and clear my brain. It also gives me an opportunity to organize my thoughts for the rest of the day and the evening for when I get home. I do still go and eat with people from time to time, but I find myself eating alone for the most part.

I don't think that I have ever eaten a meal alone in a restaurant, but I can imagine feeling a bit strange if I did. I'm sorry that you felt lonely eating alone today. It's easy to feel self-conscious, I know. Believe me, I do it all the time! *laugh*

I sometimes eat alone. I know people who eat alone. It's no big deal but I do understand that sometimes you want someone to talk to. It's completely normal. For a a couple of meals in your lifetime, you are going to eat alone. It's part of what we encounter in everyday life. What is weird is trying to hide the fact that you are eating alone, to the point of doing something, feeling obligated, to keep up appearances that you are not a loser. How do you even know that those people are looking at you? How do you know they are thinking you are a loser? Don't assume too much. And if you see people looking at you weird, then simply know that they do not know anything about you and that in a couple of days they would have already forgotten about you. Everybody, in fact, experienced eating alone. For example: everybody, one time or another, was home alone. And when they're home alone, they eat alone. Or they go out to eat alone. And it doesn't mean one's going to eat alone for the rest of one's life. So, chill!

I totally know what you mean.. Then when you go out to eat WITH someone, and see someone eating alone, you just HAVE to make a comment about it to your friend.. and you tell them basically exactly what you think everyone thinks of YOU when you are sitting eating alone in a restaraunt. I often wonder how truckers or just plain loners do it.. Take out I guess.. I agree with making a call while waiting...or pretending to, so you don't look like a loser! Isn't it silly how self consious people are??

I'm always finding myself in this situation and yes it is a little lonley, I go to the movies alone infact alot of my life is alone, but hey,I am not much of a talker and often if there is a newspaper or mag there im quite happy to glance at that, or eat quickly so nobody sees me alone and then get on with what I need to do, somtimes its not so bad because your not obligated to make conversation. it can be better than being with somone you would rather not be with

LOL its nice to know I'm not alone! I will not eat by myself in public! It is a self conscious thing. When your used to having people around and everyone else has someone by them it does feel odd.

believe me that u are not alone.I feel weird too when i eat alone.In fact i really hate to eat alone,i rather not eat..haha.Eating alone makes me lost appetite.

I don't like to eat alone either. I don't like to do many things alone, I'm just funny that way. I hate walking into gatherings by myself.

I feel odd if I am eating alone. especially if it is not a fast food place. It is like people watch you & wonder why you are there by yourself.

Can understand how you feel. I used to feel that way but not anymore now. I think this is due to the nature of my work. Sometimes, I was so busy that I don't have time to go for meals during lunch hours. I would have to wait til late afternoon before I tuck into my lunch, which I usually take alone. Its weird initially but now, I still continue to think about work during my lonely lunches.

Eating alone?for me, I'm quite frequent eating alone back in my university time. Reason?I hate to wait for my colleagues, they were just too slow and too many excuses whenever I asked them to follow me to eat at he cafe. Hence,I will prefer to eat alone rather than waiting for my friends!