I have been reading “WOMEN FOOD AND GOD” by Geneen Roth. I first heard about this book when the author was interviewed by Oprah. The following paragraph from that book is something each and every one of us that struggles with weight or any other obsession needs to read. Here it is:
“The bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when you are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problem when the original problem becomes too uncomfortable. Of dying slowly rather than coming to terms with your messy, magnificent and very, very short—even at a hundred years old—life. The means to these ends happens to be food, but it could be alcohol, it could be work, it could be sex, it could be cocaine. Surfing the Internet. Talking on the phone.”
That is so profound I have spent all day thinking about it….I do a lot of eating when I am not hungry especially at night. Wow what a concept ONLY EAT WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY or at the very least, to be honest enough with myself to pinpoint the real reason I am stuffing cookies I don’t even like in my mouth as fast as I can without choking. This is something I will be working on A LOT.
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