Let's Turn Emotional Eating On Its Head
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Let's Turn Emotional Eating On Its Head
When we are bowled over by grief and our response is to eat a pizza, we halt our ability to move through the grief as well as our confidence that it won’t destroy us. If you don’t allow a feeling to begin, you also don’t let it end.
But it is so much more. It is medicine. It is information. Food literally controls almost every function of your body and mind. And it connects almost everything that matters in our lives.
Learning what your body needs for nourishment as well as pleasure means paying attention to how you feel after eating a meal. This is what making food decisions by trial and error is all about.
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.