Lately, I’ve met quite a few people who admit that they binge when they get lonely. They aren’t angry. they just don’t want to be alone and so they eat. But it isn’t just loneliness. It’s sadness. Regardless of what is making you sad–and usually it’s something that’s happened in the past–there is an absent-minded [...]
When food addictions take over your life, you can become very hard on yourself even to the point of self-hate. This only makes the food addiction worse. We all do things that we regret. We can’t do anything about the past but if food addiction and emotional eating have become patterns in your life, there [...]
Today I went with a friend to the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. We went to see an art exhibit titled “The Baroque World of Fernando Botero”. The docent who led the first part of our tour said that Botero painted “fat people”. I believe she said those were Botero’s words. In [...]
They don’t make food like they used to. That’s because “they” didn’t make it. We did. Where were the food addictions when food came from a backyard garden or a local farm or meat locker? Where did we turn when stress set in? There was a choice, and usually it was a physical activity like [...]
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