Compulsive Eating Pattern

February 15, 2008 |

People should follow a proper course of action in their eating habits.

Eating habit is usually done unconsciously. It is a behavioral pattern that often occurs automatically. Your daily routine existence, living weary lives, going nowhere and never having enough time to get there. The rat race needs to lose a rat. Get off the rat treadmill and design your own. Design it for increasing challenge. Work towards having a great routine. Take some time to write out your present routine, then write out your ultimate routine. See yourself living it; feel the and the joy of the accomplishment.

The secret of life is that there is no secret. It’s all learning. No magic pill will change your life. You have to do it one step at a time, one day at a time, one moment at a time. You are rebuilding a life on a new foundation. Investing the time, work and energy to reshape your thinking and life will become much less painful. You will come to see life as a gift from God, an opportunity to experience, and a challenge to grow. Your soul will rise up as though on the wings of an eagle.

Now, let’s look at some overeating patterns and some easy changes that will have a big effect. shapes your life. For most of us, we are running like rats on the treadmill of pleasure.

Overeating Has a Pattern

It is grocery shopping day for Susan. She buys a few treats telling herself “I won’t overeat.” When she gets home, she’s in the grocery bag for her favorite delicacy—warm cinnamon buns. She should have had one, but she had three. She eats a light dinner watching TV and makes endless raids on the refrigerator. By the end of the night, she is completely stuffed.

A week later Susan is on a backpacking trip to the mountains. She feels free of food addiction. She is eating sensibly and feels that she has overcome the problem. But she is disappointed when she returns to her usual surroundings.

A drug addict will feel no desire to use drugs when in the hospital or in prison, only to experience the full power of addiction on returning to the streets. Entering their familiar environment, they quickly slide into their old routine. In the same way, compulsive eaters in the home because they have established triggers through years of repeated behaviors: chocolate for depression, potato chips for loneliness, pizza for entertainment, cookies for boredom, ice cream for hopelessness, coffee tiredness. When our routine is controlled by a series of triggers, we feel out of control, no longer master of our life, but a slave of the stomach god. Like a cruel dictator, it growls and we jump to serve its every whim with quiet submission. Time for a rebellion.

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