Do you have the same emotional problems as me?
Posted by:
cy
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Date: November 11, 2011 11:57PM I got this text from a hypnotherapist. I really like it because no matter what I do,eating raw,organic,or anything else I CAN NOT stopping cleaning my plate.
I can be completely stuffed,but that voice "from my grandmother" comes to me and say:"be a good girl,don't waste food because there are so many people that have no food". So,I finish my plate (with guilt and a little anger). I did everything (except hypnosis- maybe I should do that),but I still cleaning my plate as a "good girl". Another thing is fasting.As soon as finish doing fasting I have to eat like crazy because,again,the voice : "you have to eat to grow up,to be strong". Maybe thinking like a car -food as fuel- would help me. Food is fuel. That doesn't sound like a revelation, does it? I mean, we all know food is fuel, it's what keeps us going through the day, builds muscles, powers our brains. But think of it again. Food is fuel. If that's all that food is, why do we obsess about it? Why do we eat too much of it? Why do we put in types of fuel that our body neither wants nor needs? Imagine if you did that to your car - can you picture yourself at the gas station, filling up, and then when the tank is full, you just keep on pumping, so that it flows out all over the forecourt. People would think you were crazy. Or imagine taking your nice shiny sedan out to a farm and filling it up with thick, sludgy farm diesel - it would ruin the engine. Yet that is what we do to our bodies when we overeat, when we cram in junk food with no nutritional value. What has happened is that over the past 100 years our attitude towards food has been profoundly changed, mostly by the advertising industry. It is estimated that the average American is bombarded with up to 1500 food related ads per day, each of which is dedicated to the message that food is so much more than fuel. Food is now a lifestyle choice, a status symbol, a reward, a pleasure, a comfort, a celebration, and it is, above and beyond anything else, an emotional experience. So what happens if instead, you go back to believing that food is fuel? Two consequences run from that. The first is that you naturally stop overeating. The second is that the quality of the food that you're going to choose will naturally improve. We'll look at each of these in turn. Overeating is something that we have learned. We learned it because we long ago forgot that food was fuel, and just like your car's gas tank, we need to stop before we overfill it. Thus we learned to clear out plate, regardless of how we felt. We learned to eat our school lunch quickly, because we were in a hurry. We learned to sit and stuff our faces while watching TV, because that's what everyone else does. But when you realize once again that food is primarily fuel for your body, you start to ask different questions - such as what are the best foods that are going to fuel your body and give you energy, and how much of them should you eat? Are the foods you are eating giving you the energy that you deserve? Are they giving you the energy that you need to live the life that you want to lead? When looked at in this light, you start to make very different decisions about food. It's not about what you have to give up or do without, it's now about what do you choose to eat to be the person you want to be. So when you begin thinking about food as fuel, it's not about beating yourself up over the things you have to stop eating, it's about making new decisions about -How good you want to feel? -How much energy you want to experience? -How alive you want to be? When this happens, controlling your weight becomes a lot easier. to your beautiful body, Jim Katsoulis Re: Do you have the same emotional problems as me?
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: November 12, 2011 05:28PM That was great, cy, thanks for posting!
I was raised by people who had known starvation throu wartime and I have had to fight the urge to clean my plate. This was something that was drummed into me from an early age, in spite of the plenty to be found in this country; the elders there still possessed the cultural fear of famine, and projected it onto successive generations. I find that it helps a lot to eat reasonable portions--that way, even if I clean my plate, I haven't overeaten. And I always give myself permission to eat some more if I still feel hungry a half hour later. Generally, that isn't the case. Re: Do you have the same emotional problems as me?
Posted by:
cy
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Date: November 12, 2011 10:25PM Thank you so much Tamukha.
I was born in Brazil and we had vegetable garden,fruit trees,fresh meat,everything was done from scratch and my grandmother was always thankful for all that wonderful way of living.I do understand and agree with her,but my child's heart heard "don't ever waste because you have so much and others don't have the same lucky. So I understand but I feel bad,and that feeling obligates me to eat what I don't want. I did try it today in my breakfast. Normally I make an apple sauce on the blender with 2 apples and than make a smoothie with a little of the apple sauce,banana,chia seeds,bee polen,water,and sometimes almond milk. I eat the apple sauce with cinnamon and drink the whole smoothie (because I HAVE to finish it!!!!!!!). Well,today I made the apple sauce (my favorite breakfast) and the smoothie.Ate the apple sauce and drunk a little bit of the smoothie and RUN AWAY to my room. I felt great,no need to go back and drink the rest of it. In the afternoon I got the rest of the smoothie. Small portions and no guilt.It takes time,but it is worth it.Thanks. Re: Do you have the same emotional problems as me?
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: November 13, 2011 03:24PM cy,
See! Our brains do want to please us; sometimes we just need to cajole them a little bit. Keep at this sytem and pretty soon, it will be natural to you, whereas eating even after full to clean a plate has been unnatural Re: Do you have the same emotional problems as me?
Posted by:
cy
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Date: November 16, 2011 06:17PM Tamukha,have you heard about Ho'oponopono ?
[www.idreamcatcher.com] I started to talk with my body and it is working a lot. Another thing is when I get nervous/ansiety I run to the shower and take a warm bath. Thank you so much for your help and attention. Re: Do you have the same emotional problems as me?
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: November 16, 2011 10:31PM cy,
I had heard this term before, but didn't know the meaning; I confess I find it somewhat recondite. I'll look into it, though. Thanks so much for posting that link! Re: Do you have the same emotional problems as me?
Posted by:
la_veronique
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Date: November 19, 2011 11:04AM HI CY
you can still "clean your plate" but you can just choose to clean that exact same plate at different times and days in that way, you are still honoring the principle of "respect food" because it is sustenance instead of throwing it away and being wasteful like whatever is on your plate, you can "clean" it a little bit at a time, til it is clean which is what you seemed to have successfully done job well done!! brazil sounds beautiful what with all the fruit trees, gardens of veggies.. shesssh what a PARADISE it seems where u grew up cool Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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