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The Curse Of Psycho Eating
What do I mean about psycho eating? Well, let me give you an example from my own life.
There was a time that I was 320 pounds. Not only that, every Monday night was ten cent wing night. Me and a bunch of my friends would go out and see who could eat the most wings. It was only ten cents a wing.
And so I wasn't eating for nutrition. I wasn't eating to nurture my body. I was eating to win.
It created an addiction. It created euphoria. It was something that I did not to better myself. It was something I could get connection with, and it became psycho eating.
Now, this is just one example. Maybe it's an example of going out drinking. Maybe it's an example of going to parties. Maybe it's an example of, hey, you know what? I've worked out six days this week. I deserve to have this cake.
What is it that you do that you know is not what you're supposed to be doing? You know it's not going to give you what it is that you want, but yet you psycho eat.
So the curse of psycho eating, again, how do you break this curse? How do you move forward?
Well, the first step, again, is to understand your value, understand your worth. When you understand what it is that you are worth, when you understand that you don't need to get your worth or your value from someone else, from someone outside of yourself, you set up boundaries for what it is that you will and you will not allow in your life.
When I broke the curse of psycho eating, I went from 320 pounds to 175. My mother, for example, she attributed love to food, and how much that she would give out, and so there was always snacks and cakes and, you know, additional food.
And I remember one of the big issues that I got into a discussion with my mother about is one time, my son, when he was really young, got himself into trouble, and we sent him to bed early. Well, he didn't get to have a snack that night, and my mother lost it. She couldn't believe that we would do such a thing, send my child to bed without a snack that night, because, again, in her mind, it was love.
We were withholding love from our child because we didn't give him his snack before bed. So what is it that you're doing? What meanings do you have that you're giving your children about food? Is love food? Is food love? What is it, the meaning that you are taking, and what are your children learning from this?
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