What Is Your Relationship With Food?

Losing weight and body fat is less about changing the food you eat

than it is changing your relationship with food.

Our relationship with food holds emotions attached to it just like

our relationship with other things in our life: Love, hate,

pleasure, pain, good, and bad…

Food can be a celebration, addiction, obsession, nourishment,

energy and vitality…

We feed ourselves as mothers/fathers, husbands/wives, single

men/women, athletic/sedentary, our religion or nationality…

Are you AWARE of your relationship with food? Is it like your

relationship with your life?

For example, lets look at “Gina”, a working mom with two young kids

and a fairly high-pressure job as a senior manager.

Her position is further compromised with the state of the economy,

and her kids have school, dance, piano, sports, birthday parties,

etc. She lives connected to her Blackberry at all times.

She is always busy and in a big hurry, and guess what? She has no

planning or thought for any given meal, and often will go all day

before she realizes she hasn’t eaten.

She comes home exhausted, and when she finally does eat, she is so

hungry that she quickly packs down a huge meal, so she can pick up

one kid from soccer practice, get him fed, then help both kids

with their homework and get them to bed… but she isn’t really

satisfied because there was nothing really “good” in the house, and

she is binging on “bad” food all evening.

The next day, kids fed, dropped off at school, and she is eating

the breakfast she picked up through the Starbucks drive-thru while

driving to work.

Do you see where I am going here? To go just a little deeper, no

matter what your religious orientation is, I believe your

relationship with food is a spiritual one as well.

If you believe in a punishing world, chances are you will have

punishing beliefs about food as well. This describes the crowds you

see at the gym on any Monday or after a holiday… people who are

atoning for their over-indulgent eating.

If your belief is we’re all going to die sooner or later, then you

probably eat whatever you feel like because so what?

If you are more scientific than religious you might eat to live,

and not live to eat. You may even adhere to a diet that measures

and calculates calories and nutrients.

When you acknowledge whom you are as an eater and become AWARE and

go deeper into your thoughts and feelings that drive overeating,

then you can begin to explore and take responsibility for your

overweight.

When you practice a nourishing relationship with yourself and food

rather than one of punishment or deprivation, you create a

nourishing and fulfilled life.

Your inner mantra becomes I love eating healthy, perfect portions,

because it makes me feel and look great.

You discover your natural appetite, not a punishing one that uses

willpower to deny food. You feel confident and in control with food.

Taking responsibility for getting to your ideal body weight is a

hard place to get to, but it is the first step. Nobody can take

that first step for you, but you don’t have to do it alone either.

Having an accountability partner, who engages you in deeper level

thinking, and knows, which exercise and nutrition system is best

for you, increases your chances of success exponentially.

I believe in you.

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Live with Vitality,

Lauren