{"id":51,"date":"2010-12-15T20:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T20:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-02-07T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T19:00:21","slug":"unconsciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/unconsciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconsciousness Is What\u2019s Important, Not The Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/EE-blog-photo-121510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52\" src=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/EE-blog-photo-121510-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/EE-blog-photo-121510-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/EE-blog-photo-121510.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most people who overeat claim that they eat because \u201cit just tastes good.\u201d\u00a0 But food tastes good to everyone, not just people with an <a href=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\">emotional eating <\/a>problem.\u00a0 So that can\u2019t really be the reason.<\/p>\n<p>Geneen Roth, in her best-selling book, <em>Women, Food and God<\/em>, perceptively points out the real underlying issue in all cases of overeating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line, whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when you are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection.\u00a0 Food is only the middleman, the means to the end.\u00a0 Of altering your emotions.\u00a0 Or making yourself numb.\u00a0 Of creating a secondary problem when the original problem becomes too uncomfortable.\u00a0 Of dying slowly rather than coming to terms with your messy, magnificent and very, very short\u2014even at a hundred years old\u2014life.\u00a0\u00a0 The means to these ends happens to be food, but it could be alcohol, it could be work, it could be sex, it could be cocaine.\u00a0 Surfing the Internet.\u00a0 Talking on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a variety of reasons we don\u2019t fully understand (genetics, temperament, environment), those of us who are compulsive eaters choose food.\u00a0 Not because of its taste.\u00a0 Not because of its texture or its color.\u00a0 We want quantity, volume, bulk.\u00a0 We need it\u2014a lot of it\u2014to go unconscious.\u00a0 To wipe out what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 The unconsciousness is what\u2019s important, not the food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 Morty Lefkoe 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who overeat claim that they eat because \u201cit just tastes good.\u201d\u00a0 But food tastes good to everyone, not just people with an emotional eating problem.\u00a0 So that can\u2019t really be the reason. Geneen Roth, in her best-selling book, Women, Food and God, perceptively points out the real underlying issue in all cases of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/unconsciousness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unconsciousness Is What\u2019s Important, Not The Food&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,6,7,4],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}