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Post by skeleton on Apr 3, 2020 19:01:11 GMT -5
Does anyone else have a love/hate relationship with food? I treat it like a person sometimes, and it gives me emotional feelings like pleasure, shame, guilt, and more. It's not just about eating when I'm hungry. It's an emotional experience for me. A meal can make me laugh, cry, love life, hate life, or feel so many different things at once.
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Post by Great Divide on Apr 3, 2020 19:35:40 GMT -5
Food can be a really emotional experience for me, but I have body issues. This is probably really common for women. We use food to feed our emptions.
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Post by skeleton on Apr 3, 2020 19:36:16 GMT -5
Right? How do you think we learn this behavior though? I'm not saying it doesn't happen to guys, but it's so much less common.
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Post by Great Divide on Apr 3, 2020 19:36:57 GMT -5
A lot more emphasis is placed on female beauty and it's to the point where it's unhealthy for women who are always striving to be "perfect" or who don't have a proper emotional outlet.
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Post by Bubbles on Apr 3, 2020 20:02:32 GMT -5
Food fks with boys too, especially if they're in sports or something where there's body focus. I know how you feel sometimes.
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Post by Javier9101983 on Apr 4, 2020 5:32:02 GMT -5
This sort of afffected me many moons ago during high school athletics. Our coach was very pressuring when it came to staying within a weight class and maintaining a certain amount of muscle. So, I got obsessed with certain types of foods and it was more emtional that I could only eat certain things.
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Post by porcelaindoll on Apr 4, 2020 5:33:06 GMT -5
I do struggle here sometimes and it stems from creating "good foods" and "bad foods." Once they were personified, meals became emotional.
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Post by Rita Howard on Apr 4, 2020 8:18:55 GMT -5
I wouldn't say I have this problem every day, but I do experience guilt if I eat something really rich like too much cake.
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Post by Abyssinian on Apr 4, 2020 8:19:58 GMT -5
This is a great topic and it hits close to home. I can have the weirdest eating habits.
IE - I had a cheeseburger for breakfast. I knew I would feel like poo afterwards and I did it anyway because I wanted that temporary feeling that I get from junk foods.
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Post by Ignored on Apr 4, 2020 8:20:18 GMT -5
Isn't it weird how "food highs" only come from bad foods and never from salads?
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Post by Abyssinian on Apr 4, 2020 8:20:43 GMT -5
Yes and I really wish they came from salads because then I'd never have stomachaches or feel guilty after meals.
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Post by PurpleBlast on Apr 4, 2020 8:21:40 GMT -5
Not so much anymore. I try not to focus on diets or calories. If a food is "bad" then you'll feel guilt if you eat it. Trying to avoid foods never worked for me. Eating shouldn't be associated with guilt or shame. I think everything should be OK in moderation.
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Post by Abyssinian on Apr 4, 2020 8:22:05 GMT -5
^Yes. SHOULD be. I have to unlearn some of the bad things I taught myself to believe over the years.
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Post by PurpleBlast on Apr 4, 2020 8:22:34 GMT -5
Maybe first you can figure out WHY you developed those thought patterns. Who or what led you to believe that certain items were bad or off limits?
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Post by Abyssinian on Apr 4, 2020 8:23:10 GMT -5
Part of me wants to blame skinny people on TV, but I don't know if it's really TV's fault. Not everyone who watched TV strives to look like a model.
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