Food Addiction Fires up the Fat Cycle!

Click this link to read the article that prompted this blog: Food Addiction Fires up the Fat Cycle!

I've been overweight since birth, when I came into a family with deep-seated emotional eating patterns that were passed on to me via abuse and example...I will transcend this, I know. I'm making great steps to do that now, through re-patterning the way I think, and eating fresh, pure, whole plant foods. My diet is high raw, but I can't make rules for myself, or make a forbidden foods list, or it will backfire and I will dive into a barrel of the oh-so-comforting junk that I was raised on.

I found a clue to my overeating in this article. When you've built up a level of toxicity by eating toxic and addictive foods - highly processed, sugary, fat-laden nasty garbage - you will feel like crap when you're not eating, because your body will take the opportunity to clean house when it gets a break from digesting. In other words, in combination with emotional factors (which I believe have a great deal to do with toxicity) I've been driven to eat constantly because I felt like crap when my body would start to mobilize the junk that had been accumulating!

Something so simple, that it seems so obvious now. In fact, I think I knew this for awhile, but now I really UNDERSTAND.

After nearly two years of jumping on and off of the RAW wagon, I'm finding the mentality and motivation I need to be successfully healthy, and to take my body from failing to thriving! I need to breathe, rest, and re-feed myself, while making sure to properly nourish my soul first. A happy emotional body means that I will make healthy choices naturally, rather than having to make a conscious effort. I know this is true, because I'm speaking from experience.

After 20-odd years of tried and failed attempts at being healthier, forcing myself into a healthier lifestyle and then swan-diving into the old patterns, I still have faith that I will find my way...and I have so much hope for all of those people out there just like me.

Blessings to you on your journey!