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End Your Love Affair With Food!
Do you remember your first love? Have you ever taken one look at a person and known it was love? Are you currently in love? Do you love romantic movies, love songs and romance novels? Do you love dogs, cats or other pets? Do you love chocolate, pasta or other foods? Do you see a difference between all of these things that we say we "love"?
So often a reader will tell me that they love food, or that they love a certain food. I try to explain to them that love should be reserved for our family, our pets and ourselves. When pressed, the person will nearly always recant and say, "Well, I don’t love it, but I really like it."
I think when we say we love a certain food, it gives that food a lot of control over us. Think about it: You love your parents, your spouse, your friends and your children, right? And, therefore, you feel a certain responsibility toward them. You would never ignore them, shut them out of your life or purposely decide never to see them again, would you?
Well, in the case of the unhealthy foods that we believe we love, I think we should take a different approach. I think they should be cast aside, banned and sent to the trash. Why?
The problem with the unhealthy foods that we love, or our vice foods as I like to call them, is that it is a case of love at first bite. That very first bite does us in, and we are hooked. We become prisoners of love and true goners. If you LOVE chocolate and take that very first bite, are you able to put it down and not finish the candy bar or the box? If you LOVE fried chicken, do you really eat just ONE piece, or do you have many?
What about pizza, another great love of our lives. Have you ever had one piece and then broken up with the remaining cheesy, gooey and tempting pieces left in the box? Or, how about potato chips? Lays potato tells us that “no one can eat just one” for a reason. No one can!
So you see, it is really the first bite of the unhealthy food item that is the problem. If you can just say NO to the first bite, then you don't have the internal struggle of when to stop having more bites.
Many people can relate to the story of one of my readers, she lived a morbidly obese lifestyle in a morbidly obese body. Ice cream was truly her lover. She had a horrible marriage and was very lonely, so night after night, she curled up on the sofa with her ½ gallon and fell in love -- bite after bite.
The ice cream filled a void that nothing else seemed to fill. But, the problem was that she also trying to diet. She was constantly trying to lose weight, going on diet after diet, but still continuing the affair with her lover: Espresso and Cream (Light) Baskin-Robbins ice cream.
To her and so many others, the love of food was an obsession. She was embarrassed that she even bounced checks to buy her fix. Like with any unhealthy addiction we have in life, it had to stop.
She swore off ice cream, her vice, in January of 1995. It has now been almost 12 years, and I am proud to say that she has not had ONE bite of ice cream, not ONE, since the very day that she decided to stop. It is an interesting coincidence that by Christmas of that year, she was also down about 100 pounds.
You see, we all need replace our love of food with a new love: Self-Love! Love of self is the only kind of love that will help YOU to realize your dreams and goals.
So, do you really love food, or is it time to look a bit deeper for a new love?
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