Food has never been the enemy...eating peanut butter is not inherently bad...but eating peanut butter instead of dealing with the reason WHY you are eating it...that's the real issue worth figuring out.
It doesn't matter about calorie counting, point tracking, food measuring, calorie burn...it doesn't matter about calories in and calories out...that stuff won't matter, we won't be any happier 20 pounds lighter if we don't really try and listen to what our bodies are telling us. There was a reason that I was almost 230 pounds. I didn't acknowledge that I was quite an emotional eater. Food became the enemy...along with my emotions. I didn't want to pay attention to my emotions so I ignored them with food. And then I gained weight and blamed what I was eating.
Ofcourse I shouldn't have been eating boxes of cookies...but I needed to look and listen to what drove me to eat a box of cookies...over and over again.
If you look at tv, listen to the radio, overhear conversations, you will hear remnants of sentences and phrases that point back to our toxic cyclical relationship with food/emotions.
Things I know are true...food is not bad in itself...food is for fuel/nutrients. There are certain foods that are better for you, that deliver better health benefits. There are certain foods that don't really support your help your body in being the best body it can be. Eating a certain food should not make you feel guilty...it is not a crime to eat a donut...but if you're eating it and you're not hungry, pay attention to your emotions.
I don't have any formulas for figuring this out. I know that I'm figuring this out every day, every hour...and I don't anticipate that I'll ever stop figuring it out.
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