What's your relationship with food?
 

Hey guys!

So I've been pondering over food and about my relationship with it. I was quite a chunky kid, then not eating at all and loosing loads of weight, which slowly crept back on during my adult years. In the last year i have put on over a stone due to me going from a manager in retail (running around all day) to sitting at an office all day. I'm sometimes okay with my bigger frame but other times it really gets me down. Does it stop me eating? Not at the time but afterwards i reflect (like right now) and grab my fat and regret what ive just eaten.

I wouldnt say I have an eating disorder however my relationship with food is like drinking - I love it at the time but regret it later on. I want to lose weight but the temptation is always there and i give into it.

My ex-flatmate had anorexia and is now married and pregnant so she has overcome an eating disorder however she still says her relationship with food is bad as she is constantly still watching what she eats.

Have you ever been big and lost weight? Have you gained weight recently? Would you say your relationship with food has hindered you in your life?

Its a weird one and not as easy to just 'stop eating'.

I was much bigger about 3 years ago when I was in school, I think a lot of my issues boiled down to being bullied - I comfort ate a lot.

I now eat much healthier, infact I annoy people because of how healthy I am :laugh:

I find my meals are healthy and balanced but then chocolate and crisps come my wayy......

I find that if most of the time you eat healthily, then occasional chocolate and crisps do no harm. My weight has stayed the same for years (I could lose 10ibs, but what the heck) which I think is due to the fact that I eat only when I'm hungry. I realise that set meal times are necessary for some, but whenever possible just eat when your body tells you to eat.:wavey:

..Conzors..:love:../always lovely to see your lovely face...I think the thing is to try not to regret and feel any guilt ..(I know easier said than done..)..but it's more that I think that can make some people eat more because it can become a cycle of comfort eating and it's that psychological of relating food to comfort as much as the food itself, you know...you 'didn't eat at all' to lose weight..?...well obviously you ate something but it was depriving and that's an extreme that your body will always find balance for and too much of a struggle so equally as bad as eating all of the bad stuff constantly and habitually.../no extremes are good and your body will always struggle to a find a balance...you're adjusting to a different job which gives you less exercise and with the less exercise, less endorphins and less feel good and so more comfort needed etc..I think we need to listen to out bodies there as well because it's a physical thing and try to not feel guilt with that but use it as a positive to try to balance it out more with the not so healthy stuff and the healthier stuff, which wasn't being done so much before..?...and an opportunity to have a much better relationship with food and eating habits...

I can eat tons and not gain weight. So i'm lucky in that sense (I think :worry:)

Was chubby from about the age of 10 to 14 so I had a bad relationship with food then.

I just try and eat healthy and balanced nowadays but did go through a period of not wanting to eat anything in fear of becoming fat again.

wait till you hit the 30's :laugh:


Thankfully food for me was never used as a comforter, when I'm upset or stressed I stop eating rather than eat more. I remember speaking to someone about that before and that person did the opposite and we were wondering was it something that stemmed from childhood and whether parents used food to comfort you as a kid or not

Tim Mcgraw says it all in his chorus @ 0:56

Imagine an extreme abusive relationship with the couple beating each other up everyday and being alcoholic and drugs addicts...

That's my relationship with food.