![]() ![]() ![]() Having a bad day? A bad week? That bar of chocolate will not help you. One needs to think outside of the culinary section. Similarly, if you are bored, fill your time with an activity that involves your body and mind. If you are emotionally low, do something that feeds your soul, not your body. That is the wrong kind of relationship to be in. Food is to nourish you, not stress you.Īnother bad relationship to be in with food is to treat food as a coping mechanism for being sad, busy, bored, happy and stressed. Chill, calm down, and make peace with food. They have a good relationship with chocolate, so it doesn’t impact them. ![]() They’ve grown up with that and their body adapts to it completely well. The Swiss eat on an average six to eight pieces of chocolate every single day. We need to change our mindset, belief system, attitude, and the way we think and the way we relate to food. Now when you label a chocolate cake or an ice cream as something bad or fattening, then, subconsciously, every time you eat that piece of chocolate cake or ice cream, it’s going to behave exactly the way you have visualised it, i.e., fattening. What kind of relationship do you have with certain foods? Are you labelling certain foods as fattening or bad? Our relationship with food can unknowingly be the biggest obstacle to managing food addictions.Ĭonsider a piece of chocolate cake. A bad relationship serves no one, whether it’s with the person or the food. No matter what strategies we apply to overcome addiction, the bottomline is food addictions stem from a poor relationship with food. So here are some ways that can help you overcome your food addiction. If your body is fed anything over and above that, it will be a challenge for your body to break it down in the right manner. There is a certain requirement for our body based on the amount of energy we spend physically, emotionally, and mentally. Our bodies are just not designed to digest excess food. Just like excess fuel in a car can create trouble, when we overeat our hormones get out of whack, there is neuro excitement in the brain (followed by a crash), insulin and blood sugar levels become unstable and our digestive system needs to work harder to break down the excess food. Your stomach is meant to carry food of a certain quantity, not beyond that. ![]()
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