Living to Eat

Eating…it is something everyone has to do to survive, but far too many live to eat instead of eating to live and that includes me. I have tried about everything there is to deal with compulsive overeating and it has got to be the most difficult things in the world to manage. The thing about a food addiction is it is the one substance that a person can abuse that you cannot abstain from.

While you can abstain from certain types of food, bottom line is that you are going to have to eat and if you are going to stay healthy, you are going to have to manage what you put in your mouth. Geneen Roth has written several books on dealing with emotional eating and I think she has one of the best approaches to compulsive eating habits.

She basically says forget the concept of dieting and eat when you are hungry. Eat enough to satisfy your hunger and still feel comfortable. The bottom line is that if you are eating for any reason other than being hungry, you are eating emotionally. The truth is eating will not eliminate anything but hunger. Any other problem you may have that would cause you to eat, will still exist after you get done eating.

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