Oprah Winfrey

How much food's going to be there?

Okay.

I'm only going to eat the dressing.

I'm not going to eat the mashed potatoes.

But maybe I can have the scalloped potatoes.

And I'm thinking this two weeks before Thanksgiving.

Okay, so the food noise, for those of you who've never experienced it, but those of you who do, is just the constant running in your head.

What you ate, how much you ate, you shouldn't have eaten it, how much is it going to take me to work it off, how much, what am I going to eat later on?

Rachel, I find this incredible that you're mentioning this because yesterday I get a call – I get a text from someone I've known for a long time who said, I saw you with Jane Pauley talking about the food noise.

And he said –

oh, I've experienced the same thing because I've been sober for three years.

And so the alcohol noise is a real thing.

And I said, oh, gee, I never thought about alcohol noise.

But of course, and then the person explained, it's the, should I have the drink?

Should it be two drinks?

And I have the drink.

The constant negotiation.

Totally.

The constant negotiation.

Of course there would be alcohol noise because of alcoholism.