Let's Turn Emotional Eating On Its Head
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Let's Turn Emotional Eating On Its Head
Because food exists at the interface between us and everything else, eating can be particularly troublesome when we’re not at peace with the world around us. When we don’t know exactly what we want from life, food can be difficult.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Most of the time, though, food is more complicated than that. We are human, and we have sharp edges, aches and pains, heavy burdens to carry. We don’t just drift through the world like some kind of beneficent peace-and-love plasma – life snags on us like thorns.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
The internet certainly played its part. As we spend increasing hours buried in our computers the very fact that food can't be consumed virtually gives it a special resonance. You can, of course, post pictures of what you’re eating - people do that by the millions - but that’s no substitute for the scent of onions caramelizing in butter, the sound o... See more
Food Writing Grows Up
Food is an inescapable fact of life, and the task for each of us is to find a way to make our peace with it. Disordered eating is very different from alcohol addiction, whose cure is sobriety. When eating goes wrong, the antidote is not a life without food, but figuring out how we can bring ourselves to eat new foods in new ways.
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
that what we believe about food and eating is an exquisite reflection of all our beliefs. As soon as the food comes out, the feelings come out. As soon as the feelings come out, there is an inevitable recognition of the self-inflicted violence and suffering that fuel any obsession.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
For example…Getting healthy — is eating junk food really a way to “treat yourself” and “enjoy the good stuff in life” … or are you telling yourself a story that isn't really true?
James Clear • The Crime Your Brain Commits Against You
Supritha S added
Taking responsibility with food is looking without emotion at actions that work or don’t work for your goals.
Dan John • Fat Loss Happens on Monday: Habit-Based Diet & Workout Hacks
In order to eat well, we need to eat with every part of ourselves. We see, feel, sense, taste, touch, predict and imagine food long before it ever arrives on our fork.