The Food Breakup- It's Time To Change Your Relationship With Food!

This Pretty Much Says It All! This image pretty much explains my eating challenge. Many people are faced with 'emotional eating'. I define emotional eating as eating for comfort, rather than nutrition. If you're having a good day you celebrate with food. If you're having a bad day, you celebrate with food. Here's good news- breaking that connection is a learned skill that starts with awareness of the real problem. I have many good strategies within my blog on how to begin to break the cycle of insanity.

Today is my 1,000 straight day of logging. Over the past 3 years, I've dropped 50 lbs. and at 51 years old I can honestly say I'm in the best shape of my life...by far.   Here are some lessons I've learned that might be of help to others on your journey. 1) You can do it! I promise. Just don't ever give up. You can win this war, but the war is made up of 1000 battles. Win each battle and you will win the war. It's inevitable! 2) It's at least 80% psychology. Once we have some basic knowledge about nutrition, the rest is a mind game. My line is, "We don't need to know we shouldn't eat the cookie, we need to learn how NOT to eat the cookie." Face the fact that if you've overeaten as I have, it's a psychology problem. 3) Food Is Fuel! Yup. It took me 49 years to get that one in my head. Please learn that one earlier than I did. Food is not there for emotional comfort. It's not there to cheer you up w...