DO WE ‘EAT TO LIVE’ OR’ LIVE TO EAT’?
Eating is not all about eating whatever you want but is about learning the aspect of balance between loving and enjoying food and not using food to numb your feeling and emotions. This is the best and perfect way to main a healthy relationship with food although it is a big challenge for majority of food lovers.
Eating to live and living to eat are sometimes difficult for many people to understand. When people eat they focus on the aspect of biological process of body’s need for food and nutrients to survive.
Eat to live
This means strict adherence to only eating health foods at the exclusion of whether or not the food bring pleasure, enjoyment or satisfaction together with the nutritional value of food. Here you only eat food to energize your body and get through the life. Food intake to you it’s not source of pleasure and it only to resolve the feeling of hunger.
Living to eat
This means eating is centre of your life and your daily activities revolve around food. This is common to ‘emotional eaters’ who just eating according to how their budget/time allows them. They often feel that time for them to eat good meals is not available because they are busy.
When food takes a great meaning than its nutritional value we start running into troubles. Eating food is not just eating whatever you want but is about learning the balance between loving and enjoying food but not using food to satisfy your feelings and emotions. This is the best and perfect way to maintain a healthy relationship with food.
Eating a balanced diet has a foundation based on three core area
- Physical- eating to nourish your body
- Emotional-eating to bring pleasure and joy
- Spiritual-what you choose to eat comes from your body wisdom and is satisfying it to a deeper part behold the rules of compulsion.
It is important to enjoy what you eat at the same time avoiding eating something that can put you on health risks. It is very important to moderate what you eat out of needs but if you go behold eating to live be sure you are harming your body just because you want to have pleasure, happiness and time saving sake.