Recognizing Emotional Eating
Mindset Shifts
One of the first steps in changing your mindset is recognizing emotional eating patterns. Emotional eating occurs when we use food to cope with feelings such as stress, boredom, or sadness. It often leads to overeating and poor food choices.
Change Your Mindset from Living to Eat to Eating to Live
The final chapter of our journey together is perhaps the most crucial: changing your mindset from living to eat to eating to live. This shift in perspective is fundamental for sustaining the healthy habits and practices we've explored throughout this book. It involves recognizing food as a source of nourishment and energy rather than merely a source of pleasure or a way to fill emotional voids.
Understanding the Mindset Shift
For many, food is deeply intertwined with emotions, culture, and daily routines. The idea of living to eat is ingrained in our social fabric—celebrations, holidays, and even casual gatherings often revolve around food. While there’s nothing wrong with enjoying food, it's important to understand the difference between enjoying food as a part of life and depending on food as the primary source of happiness and fulfillment.
Embracing Food as Nourishment
To eat to live means to view food primarily as nourishment. This mindset doesn’t exclude the enjoyment of food but places a greater emphasis on the health benefits and energy food provides. It's about making choices that support your body's needs, promote longevity, and enhance your overall well-being.
Next time we will dive into Food as Medicine!
[[Note: Excerpted from Eating to Live: Heathy Eating for a Healthy Life, a brand new book by Brent Luck, released in July 2024.]]