Love yourself to fight emotional hunger
And I go back to talking to you about Isabel Foxen Duke , an expert in eating disorders and especially emotional hunger, who helps her overseas clients to overcome the conflict of diets, return to having a healthy and instinctive relationship with food and stop obsessing behind the right foods, portions and calories. I’m talking about it because, as Isabel explains, loving yourself is the first step to get out of the torture of emotional hunger, or nervous hunger. The mechanism is simple, I will summarize it:
– most of us go on a diet not because the doctor prescribes it, but because we do not feel satisfied with the body we have. – no one doubts that having healthy eating habits and an active lifestyle can improve physical fitness
, BUT:
– it is not the health to improve that pushes us to lose weight, let’s face it, but in the first place it is the idea of being able to be slimmer and more attractive to be happy, have more success in life, feel loved or deserve, even , the love.
– the fracture between thinness and health (if we are not on a diet to get better, we are on a diet to lose weight point and that’s it, indeed, to lose weight: dropping the scales and losing body fat are not the same thing) pushes us to to consider diets as all the same, to prefer drastic diets to a healthy lifestyle, and dietary restrictions of various kinds to physical activity.
– the result is not the happy end we were hoping for, but the beginning of a long series of attempts to lose weight and be thin, to which, on the other hand, our body reacts with emotional hunger (when I speak of body, I mean extensively of us in our entirety, therefore also of mind). This thing can take years. And make us unhappy.
– it is not the health to improve that pushes us to lose weight, let’s face it, but in the first place it is the idea of being able to be slimmer and more attractive to be happy, have more success in life, feel loved or deserve, even , the love.
– the fracture between thinness and health (if we are not on a diet to get better, we are on a diet to lose weight point and that’s it, indeed, to lose weight: dropping the scales and losing body fat are not the same thing) pushes us to to consider diets as all the same, to prefer drastic diets to a healthy lifestyle, and dietary restrictions of various kinds to physical activity.
– the result is not the happy end we were hoping for, but the beginning of a long series of attempts to lose weight and be thin, to which, on the other hand, our body reacts with emotional hunger (when I speak of body, I mean extensively of us in our entirety, therefore also of mind). This thing can take years. And make us unhappy.
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