Having a balanced and pleasurable relationship with food is a challenge for the majority of the people. It’s a challenge that most people have come to believe is “just how it is” when it comes to food but in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
As a culture, we have a bit of an extreme relationship with food, our expectations and behaviors bouncing between two ends of the eating spectrum.
What we see in these two extremes is that many of us eat in a way that reflects how we feel about ourselves deep down. We use food to cover up feelings, to numb out, to feel better about ourselves, to get thin, to stay thin, to unwind, to lessen our guilt or any number of other ways we’ve come to distort our relationship to our most basic nourishment.
The majority of us fall somewhere in between the two extremes, but regardless of where you are on the spectrum, the diet culture we’ve gotten so used to creates a mindset, often unconsicously, that our appetite is something to control and manage instead of regarding it as the wise inner guidance that it is.
So live to eat on the other hand doesn’t serve the real human needs. It’s more of self actualization point for few. Some people don’t believe in eating to survive but they enjoy eating because it gives them joy, happiness and what not! It’s all beyond emotional, social, psychological stuffs.
It’s so very important to enjoy what you eat at the same time you can’t eat something that can put on health at risk isn’t it. Off course we all want to live long and healthy. So, what is good – Eat to live or live to eat?
So what’s so special about Eat to live this is one common phenomenon that despite food reducing starvation keeps a person healthy and active. However, sometime you want to party, freak into pizzas, burgers, and yumm foods. How healthy they are?
In conclusion the best approach is to balance and moderate on what you should eat to live and sometimes it’s fine to eat out of needs, but if you do beyond eat to live then you are sure to harm your life for all the pleasure, happiness, time saving sake.
As a culture, we have a bit of an extreme relationship with food, our expectations and behaviors bouncing between two ends of the eating spectrum.
What we see in these two extremes is that many of us eat in a way that reflects how we feel about ourselves deep down. We use food to cover up feelings, to numb out, to feel better about ourselves, to get thin, to stay thin, to unwind, to lessen our guilt or any number of other ways we’ve come to distort our relationship to our most basic nourishment.
The majority of us fall somewhere in between the two extremes, but regardless of where you are on the spectrum, the diet culture we’ve gotten so used to creates a mindset, often unconsicously, that our appetite is something to control and manage instead of regarding it as the wise inner guidance that it is.
So live to eat on the other hand doesn’t serve the real human needs. It’s more of self actualization point for few. Some people don’t believe in eating to survive but they enjoy eating because it gives them joy, happiness and what not! It’s all beyond emotional, social, psychological stuffs.
It’s so very important to enjoy what you eat at the same time you can’t eat something that can put on health at risk isn’t it. Off course we all want to live long and healthy. So, what is good – Eat to live or live to eat?
So what’s so special about Eat to live this is one common phenomenon that despite food reducing starvation keeps a person healthy and active. However, sometime you want to party, freak into pizzas, burgers, and yumm foods. How healthy they are?
In conclusion the best approach is to balance and moderate on what you should eat to live and sometimes it’s fine to eat out of needs, but if you do beyond eat to live then you are sure to harm your life for all the pleasure, happiness, time saving sake.
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