You Are What you eat... literally! The Consequences of Emotional Eating...

Okay, here’s the synopsis of Emotional Eating: If you crave potato chips, ice cream, or even a pot of spaghetti, your body is showing you it’s unhealthy and needs fuel to feed the toxic addiction. Can you allow yourself the leniency to indulge, every once in a while, on foods that aren’t optimal to your well-being? Yes, but consider that you only crave toxic foods if you’re feeling toxic and your body is toxic. A body that is addicted to the various processed junk you call food is burdened with stress. Your body has to work overtime to digest what you’re feeding yourself. Anything that isn’t an alive, whole food is invasive to your digestive system and hard for your body to convert into a substance it can use. Of course, you justify eating overly processed food because it tastes good and is usually pretty easy to prepare. It’s that exact attitude that keeps food corporations rolling in the dough, pun intended.

It’s not your fault though. No, no, I kid you. It is wholeheartedly your responsibility, but the addictive qualities of the ingredients in processed food is horrendously underplayed. Far worse is that, you, the consumer, are flat out lied to about the true ingredients in even those wholesome box of crackers you bought at the health food store. Yeah, they have an organic label and show pretty pictures of nature, but many of those “healthy” snacks are just as toxic and addictive as their big corporation cousins. Okay, maybe not as toxic, I I will give you that. However, anything that’s processed, put in a box, and slapped with a colorful design isn’t a whole food. And it’s those addictive, toxic substances that have dumbed you down, made you feel lazy (bogged down), and created the cycle of Emotional Eating.

What is Emotional Eating?

In simple terms, Emotional Eating is consuming food when you aren’t hungry. Emotional Eating can also be over-eating, consuming food in reaction to stress, or even repetitively buying groceries that are “food like,” but void of anything containing actual nutritional substance. The last example is a trait of Emotional Eating because if you don’t consume those addictive, chemically-created, food-like imitations of products resembling genuine cuisine, you freak out. Like a junkie, you’ve gotta get your hands on whatever box of stuff that gives you the empty satisfaction you‘re looking for. Why empty satisfaction? Hey, if those addictive substances were actually fulfilling, you wouldn’t need them all the time. You’re an addict constantly searching for that fleeting emotional pacifier. It just so happens that for most people, the pacifier most used as a crutch is processed food, containing zero nutrition to give you the sensation of feeling satiated. In the absence of ever truly feeling full, you’re at the emotional whim of wondering when you’re gonna get your next fix.

Okay, so why are so many people complacent eating foods that aren’t really, food? In a word, convenience. Yeah, it’s far too easy to pop something in the oven or microwave than gathering the whole food ingredients you need to prepare a delicious meal, full of easily digestible fare. The problem is, when you’re toxic, you don’t have the desire or energy to really prepare anything other than what’s readily available. It’s also incredibly inconvenient to eat foods that are full of nutrition, but don’t gratify all of your cravings for all the junk your body is used to receiving.

In the end, even if you create the time to prepare a meal that satiates your nutritional needs, you’ll likely end up chowing down on a bag of chips, or a pint of ice cream. The funny thing is, you’ll eat those things even if you’re beyond full and about to throw up. In acknowledgement of realizing that eating food isn’t about meeting your fundamental need for nutritional sustenance, why do you eat?

You eat what you eat because it’s easily accessible on the shelf of your grocery store. Again, food in the modern American age is more about convenience than educating yourself about what’s real and making sure the products on your shelves meet the most basic criteria of authentic chow.

In a demonstration of what’s almost a child-like vote of trust, you assume the foods you buy are actually somewhat healthy. You make this leap of faith because the FDA says your box of cereal meets their convoluted standards for your basic nutritional requirements. Sorry, but the FDA is adhering to a criteria that wasn’t really true or relevant when they designed the food pyramid in the first place. Don’t blame them though. You’re too busy feeding the need for some Cheetos. Yup, they’ve got you addicted, hook, line, and sinker. That addiction keeps you from asking the most fundamental questions about the food you buy and eat.

In the absence of those people whom are most affected by what they eat asking the most essential food-shelf questions, there is no accountability. Besides, life’s hard, and that Whopper and fries sure are convenient, aren’t they?

I work with people on my table all the time dealing with food addiction. And when I say food addiction, I mean processed food. When I stimulate the release of all the toxicity stored in your tissues from undigested food, you are physically and physiologically closer to clearing the slate of addiction. When you release toxicity stuck in your tissues back into the blood stream, you have the opportunity to cleanse it out of your body, forever. The less toxicity in your body influencing your food choices, the easier it is to rise above addiction and cravings.

By the way, where do you think all that undigested food ends up? What, did you think all that junk in your trunk is just extra padding for sitting on hard chairs? No, and in all seriousness, any amount of excess fat in your body can create severe discomfort, acute pain, and depression. Not to mention that a body dealing with an abundance of toxicity is only faintly circulating fresh nutrition and blood into your deepest crevasses, which compounds the rigidity in your muscles and joints tremendously. And when you aren’t generating enough oxygenation to circulate fresh blood and nutrition, your digestive system is even more sluggish. Oh, what a harsh merry-go-round being in a body that’s burdened by toxicity, huh?

The layers of consequence go much, much deeper, but for the sake of this article, you get the point…

Right?

Step up to the plate: Get on my table!