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07 February 2013
"It’s Time for a New Relationship With Food
Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.
Have you ever stopped to consider what relationship you have with food?
We don’t often think we even have a relationship with food, and yet we do — and it’s pretty intimate.
Think about this: if you’re like me, you spend as much or more time with food than you do with many of the loved ones in your life — several hours a day or more.
And consider this: technically, food is just fuel for living. That’s all — nothing else.
And yet … it has become so much more to most of us:
we use food for pleasure
we use it for comfort
we turn to food when we’re sad, depressed, hurt
we use food to socialize
we use it as a reward
we do it when we’re bored
food can also be a chore
we use food as gifts
we turn to food when we’re lonely
food can be associated with sex
food is equated to health
sometimes, food becomes an obsession
it definitely can be an addiction
food can make us hate ourselves
food is the center of many billion-dollar industries
In fact, the huge food-related industries are at the center of much of our relationship with food: restaurants, fast-food chains, convenience foods, agribusinesses, distributors, grocery chains, snack foods, bakeries, coffee shops, dessert chains, health food, diet foods, supplements, bodybuilding food, and many others. They spend billions upon billions every year trying to get us to eat more and more food — their food in particular — and the horrifying thing is that all this advertising really, really works.
We have been convinced that the answer to almost any problem is food. You truly love someone? Buy them chocolates, or take them to a restaurant, or bake them cookies. Want to lose weight? Eat diet food. Want to get fit? Take our supplements, eat our meat, drink our milk. Want to be healthy? Eat our healthy products. Want to reward yourself? There are too many options to name here. Having a bad day? We’ve got the food for you. Don’t have time? Our food will save time. Want to save money? Buy super size and “save”.
Food is the answer to everything, apparently.
And yet, we forget that food is just fuel. We need to eat a certain amount to live and maintain our weight. If we eat more than that, we will store some of that fuel as fat (or build muscle if we’re exercising). And how do we lose weight? By eating, apparently — eat diet food, drink diet shakes, eat Zone bars, eat vegetarian products, eat meat and other protein sources, eat low-fat products, eat our cereal, drink our diet soda.
But what if we … just ate less?
Despite what the food industries have convinced us, we don’t need to eat as much as we do to survive. Sure, maybe eating that much is fun, and pleasurable, and will stave off boredom, and is fun to do with friends and family, and so on. But we don’t need to eat that much. Actually, we need to eat less.
The problem isn’t that it’s so difficult to eat less. The problem is that we have a complicated relationship with food that started when we were toddlers and has become more and more complicated through the years, through endless amounts of advertising, of eating when we’re sad and lonely and happy and bored and at parties and going out and on dates and watching TV and dieting and so on.
Our complicated relationship with food makes it hard to cut back on how much we eat.
So let’s start building a new relationship with food:
Start recognizing exactly why we eat — is it just for sustenance or is our hunger often triggered by other things (boredom, socializing, pleasure, etc.)?
Start realizing the effects that advertising and the food industries have on how we think about food and how we eat.
Stop eating when we’re bored, out of habit, as a reward, for pleasure, for comfort, etc.
Only eat what and how much we need.
Find other ways to entertain ourselves, comfort ourselves, find pleasure, etc.
Find other ways to socialize than eating large amounts of food.
Stop obsessing so much about food.
End our addiction with certain foods — sugar, for example, or starches. We can still eat them, but we don’t need to eat them as much.
Think about it: how much simpler would life be if you could end this complicated relationship with food? Some changes that might happen:
You’d spend less time thinking about food.
You’d spend less time preparing food.
You’d spend less money on food.
You’d eat less.
You’d get healthier.
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07 February 2013
There's no use. This is helpless!
DINNER ALWAYS RUIN EVERYTHING
so I'm actually even considering skip this meal or do it later or soon at night when there's no one else in the kitchen and when the table is not full of the delicious food my mom always makes. I dont know what else to do.
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06 February 2013
This is horrible! WHY DOES DINNER ALWAYS FUCK UP EVERYTHING? I ALWAYS SPEND THE DAY EATING A FEW, IN SMALL PORTIONS, THE RIGHT FOOD BUT I ALWAYS MESS UP AT DINNER. WHY?
I really can't understand why but I really have to do something about it as soon as possible. I can't handle it any more 'cause I cant control it and I always get so mad because I didn't control myself and I didn't stop.
This time I got so mad that instead of running for 15min, I run for 45!
I'm really gonna search for some types for stop this binges at dinner.
I'm sad and disappointed at myself :(
xx
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05 February 2013
Went behond my calories limit, again! Eat bread, again! Slipped at dinner, again! Will it ever change? At least I still burned more calories than consumed and I eat more proteins and less carbs than yesterday.
Today was a really really stressfull day. Just happened all kind of bad things. Today was one of those days when you shouldn't have got out of bed. Ah, and most of all I got scamed by a guy who sold me 2 "fake" iphone 4S and I just lost 230€ :(
Well, instead other things are getting better and I got back my best support and the one who wil "bring" me up :D
Also, I weight in and I'm now with 57,1kg. More 5kg to loss.
Note to self: BE BETTER TOMORROW AND MAKE YOURSELF PROUD!
xx.
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05 February 2013
Weigh-in:
125.9 lb
lost so far:
2.0 lb
still to go:
11.2 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 13.9 lb a week
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