Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body

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Since then, every time I’ve left a job, a city, or even a partner, when I step into that vast unknown, wide-open space, I can count on something magical happening.

When someone wants to know what our most secret wishes for ourselves are, we immediately become exquisitely vulnerable. We immediately become seen. And if we truthfully answer the question, then—and most terrifying of all—we become known.

if we keep them locked up and hidden, even from ourselves, we are bound to be sick at heart. Isolation is a killer, and leaves us alone with our brains, which aren’t always thinking straight. And when that happens, we’re susceptible to making bad choices.

The ritual, the habit, has been broken, or at least put on pause, and what rushes in to fill its place is possibility and choice. This is when the magic can happen.

If a woman were to give up the weight that’s masking her power, she would become more nimble, more noticeable, more visible in ways that would force her to be more accountable for, and in, her life. And being accountable scares us. And no wonder, because if we become accountable, we run the risk of becoming seen and successful, and if we become suc

Interestingly, oxytocin is a hormone that also inhibits cravings, and this may explain why we forget to eat when we fall in love.

“You’re only as sick as your secrets.” With food, this is most certainly true. But, as Patricia learned, it’s also true with our feelings;

Saying no to the things that don’t feel right is as important as saying yes to the ones that do.