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Originally Posted by hagatha
I've often wondered if food has become a substitute for love and comfort. As people become more remote from one another and real time social networks grow increasingly more difficult to form and people rarely have time to listen to one another and show real compassion, maybe stuffing a donut in your mouth lessens the pain of existence.
When I was a kid, if you were well fed it meant you were loved. If you had a problem mom gave you a cookie-- she didn't tell you to go for a walk and make it better. The things we learn as children stay with us as adults (for the good or the bad) and if comfort is what we need and no one is there to say "its going to be alright", a cookie will do.
I gave up cookies for cigarettes. The psychological need remains.
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I think this is true for women. Women tend to be emotional eaters. I know my eating patterns fluctuate wildly over the course of my cycle simply because of the different levels of hormones in my system. Some days all you want is to go home and eat a giant bowl of mashed potatoes.
That is one thing I have been working on--thinking about my motivation to eat. Exercising isn't a problem, though I need to do more of it more often, and usually neither is controlling my eating. But there are some days where I just want to EAT and I don't care WHAT or else I'm craving something. And I'm trying to discover what the root cause of those cravings and compulsions is.