When life isn’t satisfying, neither is your food.
I don’t care how good that perfect, melty, delicious, thing is – if there’s something that isn’t working (besides hunger) food will not fix it.
We want it to, we soooo want it to!
Food is easy, cheap, available, quick, fun, and even flashy! It is the thing that fills in as the go to problem solver for so many of us. Shoot, I still try to figure out a way to get chips or ice cream to solve my discomfort – but it doesn’t work anymore!
Does it still work for you? If so, don’t change a thing, keep using it. It is so much easier to choose chips and ice cream than self-awareness.
Seriously!
Had I known, I’m not sure I would have started this whole “self-love-create-the-life-I-want” sort of lifestyle. It’s a lot of work!
It makes me wonder why I did start all this in the first place, why did I ever want to give up yummy food – I was a foodie and wine lover… What was I thinking?
- I didn’t want to be distracted by food anymore.
- I didn’t want to feel shame when I did eat the chips and ice cream.
- I wanted to get over “the struggle.”
- I wanted to feel more like me in my skin.
- I wanted FREEDOM.
Here is what is so interesting about that list. It has nothing to do with food – and everything to do with my life.
When we eat
food in the absence of hunger we’re using it to either:
Create a feeling – or – Avoid a feeling.
Examples would be: I feel uncomfortable, I need ice cream… I feel like celebrating, I need cake… I’m overwhelmed, I need chips…
So weird how some of us are wired to use food for emotional reasons. It isn’t this way for everybody (I know, I’m pissed too!).
Notice where you mismatch your food for your feelings or your feelings for your food.
Got some examples in your mind?
Now, is it working for you? (You’ll know if it’s working if you’re getting the results you want, creating the life you want…)
If it isn’t working for you, leave a comment below, because I have one more question for you.
Big love,
Caryn
Photo Credit:
Photo by Callie Morgan