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- From: mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur)
- Subject: Re: When Food Is Love
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.170557.17862@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
- Organization: Intermetrics Inc, Cambridge MA
- References: <17526@pitt.UUCP> <1992Nov19.232742.11565@spdcc.com> <9965@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:05:57 GMT
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- In article <9965@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> jsl+@pitt.edu (John S Lundberg) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.232742.11565@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >>This "Geneen Roth" stuff seems to be particularly attractive to women,
- >>for whatever reason, I don't know why. I haven't come across a man who
- >>is inclined to push it. But it's mostly women who seem to be
- >>brainwashed into thinking that there has to be some emotional basis to
- >>their overeating and obesity and that "being nurturing to yourself"
- >>somehow breaks this cycle.
-
- While I don't believe that all overeating has "some emotional basis" to it, I
- can't believe that Steve thinks the converse--that no overeating does.
- As I said when I watched Oprah, I'm concerned that this "food is love"
- may get to be cliche. On the other hand, I have lived this struggle for
- 20+ years. It just isn't about overeating 'cause food tastes good.
-
- >But if I told myself that
- >I could eat whatever I wanted, as Roth seems to be suggesting,
- >then I'm sure I'd fail. Last night, for instance, I was fairly
- >hungry yet my food diary said that I had consumed 1400 calories
- >for the day, a bit over my target of 1200. Instead of eating I
- >went for a drive and bought a magazine. This morning I had breakfast
- >and I don't feel particulary hungry at the moment--I don't think
- >there's some reservoir of unfilled hunger that accumulates until
- >the dam of your self-control breaks. Hunger is just a feeling
- >and it passes.
-
- Most compulsive overeaters wouldn't know hunger if it bit them on the
- butt. They eat too much and far too often to get hungry. However, it
- is possible that diet-induced hunger is just one in a series of things
- that can induce a binge.
-
- My own personal philosophy is much along the lines John suggests above.
- I try and eat three square meals a day, I don't eat sugar, and I have
- learned to tolerate hunger. Like Steve and John (but for different
- reasons), I'm not confident that I could eat what I wanted, when I wanted.
-
- Beth Mazur "...life is more than a vision. The sweetest
- mazur@inmet.inmet.com part is acting after making a decision."
- ...!uunet!inmet!mazur -- The Indigo Girls
-