{"id":6888,"date":"2019-02-04T01:06:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T06:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2019-05-29T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:23:50","slug":"love-matters-for-your-relationship-with-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=6888","title":{"rendered":"Love Matters For &#8230; Your Relationship With Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s Love Got To Do With It? During the month of February, we are going over reasons love actually DOES have something to do with your emotional, physical, and social health.<img data-opt-id=605165980  fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7109\" src=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:225\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/watermelon-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:4000\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/watermelon.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlcmmqmgggev.i.optimole.com\/w:640\/h:480\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/watermelon.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s start with the love of food<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I got into a long drawn out discussion with a wonderful person over this idea. I said that, like the people Mediterranean region, we need to love our food. She had struggled with eating issues in her past, and told me that this message was wrong, it was bad, it was [fill in the blank], and loving your food more is not the solution but the problem itself.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly I had touched a nerve, and 100% understand the source of the sensitivity. We are coached by our culture to equate \u2018love\u2019 with consumption. We believe that the more you love your food, for example, the more you eat,and the bigger and faster and longer you should consume it.<\/p>\n<p>This assumption is laced into every print, audio, and television food commercial you\u2019ve ever seen. Even if this constant barrage isn&#8217;t coaching you explicitly, it&#8217;s still doing it implicitly. And you can see the outcome of this cultural messaging when someone eats huge bites in a hurry and says some version of \u201cDid you see how much I loved my food?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But those behaviors do not reflect any love of food, they equate love with consumption. These two are not the same and when you conflate love with consumption \u2013 whether that love is attached to food, or drink, or a person, or a job, or whatever \u2013 you are in a disordered relationship with that thing.<\/p>\n<p>So change your definition for what it means to \u201clove your food\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you love your food, you would take your time with it and not finish your lunch in the 5 minutes it takes you to walk back from the kitchen to your desk.<\/li>\n<li>If you love your food, you would eat small in order to taste your food. Remember that your taste buds are only at your tongue. If you pack your cheek pockets with your food, you aren\u2019t tasting 90% of it. At that point, you\u2019re just gulping food.<\/li>\n<li>If you love your food, you would not choose low cost processed food product made with ingredients that will never degrade. You would eat higher quality real foods because those taste better. By the way, they\u2019re healthier for you too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you actually love your food, you eat smaller, taste more, control consumption, and therefore manage weight and health better as a wonderful byproduct of the process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s Love Got To Do With It? 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