Change Your Relationship With Food
It is easy to see when you are overweight. It's easy to know when you are overweight but not easy to feel good about it. Being overweight has become an indicator for health but frankly it is a very poor indicator and the temptation for people who are not overweight is to think they are ok with food.
It's like looking at a big car and saying how bad it is that it consumes so much petrol, or how noisy it is or how much space it takes up and, it's difficult to park. By emphasising the weight/overweight paradigm, we miss the small car whose engine is about to stop working because the fuel filter was damaged and let in rust and wore the engine away from the inside.
Hopefully now,although the analogy is clumsy, the message may be a little clearer. We look at ourselves as see someone who is not overweight and think; fine. No, it may not be fine, unless your relationship with food is sound. If you are putting junk into your body, your body will respond.
Obsession?
"An obsession is an unwelcome, uncontrollable, and persistent idea, thought, image, or emotion that a person cannot help thinking even though it creates significant distress or anxiety."
When the whole idea of food has got to this stage there is something not quite right. Society, the media and other sources promote the idea that a preoccupation with food is OK. Ideas such as good and bad foods are commonly held and no longer consciously questioned. If you ask most people, they will tell you there are lots of bad foods. Calorie counting and measuring encourage excessive focus and concern with food and the end result if often guilt and depression.
What's the original idea?
Food should be and can be an enjoyable, natural and essential part of life, not something to become fearful and concerned about. If your relationship with food has become something fearful and depressive then it's time to change. If what I have written here makes sense to you deep down, then you also know you need to make a change around food.
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