More about eating, in my case too much

I am not sure what role food plays in my life, but I am sure a professional would say I need to work on it.

For the first 20 years of my life, I basically ate what I wanted...when I wanted it.  I can  remember coming home from swim practice and eating an entire box of pasta.  I suppose this system works pretty well when you are training 4 or 5 hours a day, and your metabolism is roaring.  Stop swimming, start sitting behind a desk, and the game changes!

I think this article, My Relationship With Food by Dan Empfield, makes a lot of sense.  Dan say's

"When you and I were young we established our relationships. Not just with people, but also our relationships with alcohol, drugs, cigarettes—those to whom we're sexually attracted—as well as our relationships to bosses, employees, parents, religion, politics.

We also formed relationships with work and leisure time, with schedules, with hygiene, with our approaches to concepts like discipline, virtue, loyalty, steadfastness.

As we age, some of those relationships prove unhealthy or dysfunctional. Those who formed bad relationships with alcohol, for example, found they needed to redefine those relationships. I'm on my second marriage, and happily so. But in between my two marriages I decided to take a look at the way I approached romance: what I looked for in a woman, what sort of woman was best for me, and not only what I wanted in a woman, but what I was prepared to offer in return.

I think success and happiness requires a dose of luck, but depends more on our initial establishment of relationships, as well as our willingness to examine and redefine these relationships throughout our lives, as they are found wanting. Success is proportional to our abilities to self-correct."

 

Read Dan's entire article on Slowtwitch.