Plus, yes, you can be fat and healthy, and food has therapeutic value and it has been proven (and known) eating your emotions is an actual form of therapy sexism and trying to force everyone to look the same prevents people from expressing his or her self or being happy.Eating is beautiful, natural and therapeutic, intimate, and in some ways you can think of your stomach and hunger as you do your erogenous areas and sex.And.. the problems that "fat people" have are also seen in thin people and can be easily fixed by eating healthier and exercising more,and sometimes even herbs not necessarily eating less
People have been "eating their feelings" for thousands of years. Many times, it's why we eat.
I see people shamed all the time for eating because they are emotional.
Eating and sex are natural and beautiful. If you don't want to use sex or food as a tool for your emotions, fine but we shouldn't shame people who do. If you feel guilty after eating or having sex you need to fix THAT. It is because of society that you feel shame for finding pleasure in something that is pleasurable. Food and sex are not evil, or bad. They release endorphin in the brain and create a euphoric feeling in people; it is society's fault people feel depressed after eating too much or for having sex to feel better (whether that is with someone casual or serious). How long have sex and eating been around. It seems society is trying to shame us horrible for the TWO things that are so natural. Not only are they natural, but they bring life and sustain life for all living beings. Who the heck is anyone to say what is acceptable or not?
"By the way...don't eat or have sex, but here take a pharmaceutical drug that is known to have numerous negative health effects to suppress your emotions."
Diet "experts" suggest staying away from chocolate (which IS healthy is it's organic form, it's the harmful additives that are bad for you) & sugar (table sugar is bad while coconut sugar, maple syrup,etc are actually beneficial to your health) because of how it makes us "fee good" therefore contributing to "emotional eating." However, with that idea in mind we would also need to stay away from ALL food since food provides nourishment and vitamins necessary for mental health."
We literally eat FOR good mental health. "Eating your emotions" is normal, contrary to what size-phobic diet gurus say. So, to stop "eating your emotions" you would actually have to just stop eating any food at all. Do not even eat an apple since apples contribue to boosting your emotions. Even water contributes to feeling good, so according to them, you shouldn't even be drinking water,
"Eating IS emotional. Deal with it." - Isabella Foxen Duke
- Take The Cake: Saint Mary Of The Chocolates @ Ravishly - "I believe at the core that eating is (and ought to be) joyous, pleasurable, and even fraught. In short — emotional.I'm going to tell you this: I believe in emotional eating.I never want to react to a spoonful of tiramisu with stoicism. I never want to consume carrot cake without passion! And I have no desire to divorce my experience of chocolate from something deep and real — something the opposite of shameful."
- The most emotional video we've seen in a while... - A quick video with pictures of food.
- I eat emotionally sometimes. WHATEVER. by Isabel Foxen Duke
- #HungryGirlProblems: 24 Hilarious Ways Girls Struggle With Food Every Day by Ashley Fern - some funny, yet true statements including #5. Going to events hoping food will be served, #8. You become emotional when your last bite approaches, #22. You look forward to getting the munchies & #23. You find yourself thinking about dinner while you’re eating breakfast
- What Are You Like When You’re Hangry? 6 types of hungry people @ Buzzfeed
- **When somebody happy because they're eating! - Wayne Colley
- Nigella Feasts - S01E13 - Comfort Food - YouTube
- Video from Ian Zero - This is how I eel when I go to get something and I don't have it.
- "It's not that I eat my feelings, it's that eating is the only thing that gives me feelings." - Chis Cocker
- Hangry Piglet When I'm Hangry - Just Eat Real Food
- Fat/sex shaming survival kit : I eat my emotions. Why you shouldn't feel shame.
- 28 Times People Have Actually Cried Because Of Food from Buzzfeed
- "My feelings taste good" - Chris Crocker
- **"Eating IS emotional. Deal with it." - 3 Reasons Food Is Not "Just Fuel" (And You Are Not A Car) by Isabel Foxen Duke
- Food as therapy - website that shows how eating is emotional and theraputic.
- Food as Therapy @ THe Philosophers Mail - Foods contain edible philosophies of life, to which we may be seeking to get close by doing that most direct and understandable of things: eating. We are ingesting physically, but also trying to take into our souls the psychological nutrients we intuit...That’s what makes eating more than just fuelling up and restoring the body, it’s also about rebalancing our misshapen souls.We want the foods we eat to help us become a little more as they are; we want to take on the avocado’s confident serenity, the figs’ ease with sensuality, the scallops dignified privacy, the asparagus’s resolute commitment to individuality. We invest in a [seitan] steak out of a new commitment to vigour and courage, we turn to [maple syrup] to lend weight to a desire to be more satisfied with simplicity. We might drink a whole glass of cold [non-dairy] milk to put a wall between the present and a sexually dissolute past few days.."Let’s sum up what food does for us at a psychological level:1. Food rebalances us .2. Food reconnects us with important but currently elusive parts of ourselves. 3. Food can help us to change our lives. 4. Food can compensate for the decline of religion. 5. Cooking as a route to individuation.6. Food is an act of communication"
- Because food is also for joy, to enjoy and you will never be able to eat fully without emotion. It's about mindfulness. Mindfully listening to your body and mindfully enjoying your delicious meal with all senses.Be kind to yourself and your body!" - The radiant fox
- Heribert Watzke: The brain in your gut - talk from TED talks
- Think Twice: How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being - "This multitude of neurons in the enteric nervous system enables us to "feel" the inner world of our gut and its contents. Much of this neural firepower comes to bear in the elaborate daily grind of digestion. Breaking down food, absorbing nutrients, and expelling of waste requires chemical processing, mechanical mixing and rhythmic muscle contractions that move everything on down the line....The second brain informs our state of mind in other more obscure ways, as well. "A big part of our emotions are probably influenced by the nerves in our gut," Mayer says. Butterflies in the stomach—signaling in the gut as part of our physiological stress response, Gershon says—is but one example. Although gastrointestinal (GI) turmoil can sour one's moods, everyday emotional well-being may rely on messages from the brain below to the brain above. For example, electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve—a useful treatment for depression—may mimic these signals, Gershon says."
- Why You Can't Eat (or Can't Stop Eating) After a Breakup @ Psychology Today
- Think Twice: How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being @ Scientific American
- Urgent evidence proves that your gut bacteria affects mental health
- Enteric nervous system @ Wikipedia - "The enteric nervous system consists of some 500 million neurons,[6] (including the various types of Dogiel cells),[1][7] one two-hundredth of the number of neurons in the brain, and 5 times as many as the one hundred million neurons in the spinal cord"
- Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain - "Embedded in the wall of the gut, the enteric nervous system (ENS) has long been known to control digestion. Now it seems it also plays an important role in our physical and mental well-being. It can work both independently of and in conjunction with the brain in your head and, although you are not conscious of your gut “thinking”, the ENS helps you sense environmental threats, and then influences your response. “A lot of the information that the gut sends to the brain affects well-being, and doesn’t even come to consciousness,” says Michael Gershon at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York.
- The Enteric Nervous System: The Brain in the Gut - "The plexuses also contain glial cells that nourish neurons, mast cells involved in immune responses, and a "blood brain barrier" that keeps harmful substances away from important neurons. They have sensors for sugar, protein, acidity and other chemical factors that might monitor the progress of digestions, determining how the gut mixes and propels its contents."
- THE SECOND BRAIN IN YOUR GUT @ The Connection
- The taste therapy @ New Science Journalism - "The attraction of people towards the food they use to eat in their childhood can thus be used in therapeutic purposes, for psychological disorders such as manic depression or bipolar disorders. Such food prepared by their dear ones can make the brain to feel as if they have returned to their childhood and can elevate the mood of a person suffering depression."
- Enjoy your favorite meal, whatever it is. Eat it slowly so you can enjoy the way it tastes. ___ Carry lollipops, gum, or other candy with you to eat when you’re feeling upset. ___ Eat a soothing food, like ice cream, chocolate, pudding, or something else that makes you feel good. ___ Drink something soothing, such as tea, coffee, or hot chocolate. Practice drinking it slowly so you can enjoy the way it tastes. ___ Suck on an ice cube or an ice pop, especially if you’re feeling warm, and enjoy the taste as it melts in your mouth. ___ Buy a piece of ripe and juicy fresh fruit and then eat it slowly" - DBT workbook by Matthew McKay.
- "Emotions are electrical and chemical signals in your body that alert you to what is happening. These signals often begin with your senses of sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste...Emotions are signals that help you to do the following: Survive (“ fight or flight”). Remember people and situations. Cope with situations in your daily life. Communicate with others. Avoid pain. Seek pleasure".The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
- Think Twice: How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being - " Although gastrointestinal (GI) turmoil can sour one's moods, everyday emotional well-being may rely on messages from the brain below to the brain above. For example, electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve—a useful treatment for depression—may mimic these signals, Gershon says.Given the two brains' commonalities, other depression treatments that target the mind can unintentionally impact the gut. The enteric nervous system uses more than 30 neurotransmitters, just like the brain, and in fact 95 percent of the body's serotonin is found in the bowels. Because antidepressant medications called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) increase serotonin levels, it's little wonder that meds meant to cause chemical changes in the mind often provoke GI issues as a side effect. Irritable bowel syndrome—which afflicts more than two million Americans—also arises in part from too much serotonin in our entrails, and could perhaps be regarded as a "mental illness" of the second brain."
- The Food-Mood Connection The relationship between tryptophan and serotonin is part of what’s commonly considered the food-mood connection.-- "Nuts,seeds,pinneapple,tofu.."
- The Mood Cure by Julia Ross
- Research Shows that Nutrition, Not Medication, Improves Mental Health @ The mind unleashed
- The Connection Between Nutrition And Mental Health by Deane Alban *Note, you can get all of these vitamins and mineral while being vegan. And, I think they are mistaken in stating that wheat is linked to schizophrenia.*
"I have the right to feed my body with whatever foods I deem appropriate to meet my nutritional needs, including foods that are eaten strictly for pleasure. There is more to life than conforming to a thin beauty ideal." - @ Big Girls Workout
Food-Mood connection
- "'On the biological front, food is used to alleviate hunger, so it is a basic need and leads to a physiological reward and positive feelings,' says Dr. Carol Landau, clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior and medicine at Alpert Medical School, Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island" Schwartz, C. (n.d.). Good mood food The new twist on emotional eating [Abstract]. Retrieved May 5, 2016, from http://getsh101.com/m/0915A/04/pmsa.html. "Messing with food messes with feels."
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Adrenaline Rush
Tryptophan
Endorphins & serotonin
Opioid system
dopamine
- How you can tell we all love chocolate: Sweet treat releases 'feel-good' chemical causing pupils to dilate - "Chocolate causes brain to release dopamine, the pleasure chemical The release causes pupils to dilate - associated with feelings of love and lust"
- A Little Nutrition Sanity – Sugar: The Other White Powder – Rhetoric vs. Reality - "The effect of virtually all drugs of abuse is largely dependent on activation of the body’s reward circuit or pleasure center – the mesolimbic dopamine system. These drugs exert their influence primarily by increasing the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which makes us feel good.So, what about sugar? It is undeniably true that eating sugary foods increases the release of dopamine through these pathways and makes us feel good. Does this mean we are addicted to sugar?Although it is certainly more titillating to conclude the answer is yes, in this case it turns out that the more truthful answer to the question is a much more boring, not really. Because in fact, the list of things that light up these dopaminergic pathways does not stop at drugs of abuse and highly palatable foods. Here is a partial list of other things that light up these pathways:Music Humor Winning a prize Expecting to win a prize A mother recognizing her child Attractive faces Smiling faces Oh yes – and being in love! Are we to fear a pathological undercurrent for the enjoyment of all of these and perhaps limit or even eliminate them from our lives just because they light up our pleasure pathways?"
Phenethylamine
When people say chocolate makes them feel good and weight loss / psychopaths state to stay away from it because of the feel good feeling this is what they are talking about. This is the feeling you also have when in love;therefore, we must stay away from love because... health/weight loss guru's say so.
Grrr/ Hangry
- "Me when my attitude goes away because i'm about to eat"
- "Idiots make me gain weight. Not food" - Chris Crocker
- The Science Behind Why Some People Get Angry When They Are Hungry -"refined sugar" makes you crash and burn,but sugars like Coconut sugar, maple syrup,etc. don't. use those instead.
"hypergly bitchy
- hypergly bitchy - I only heard this from an interview with a man named Dave Asprey. I'm guessing it means when someone hasn't had any sugary foods and are now biotchy and in a bad mood.
- The Science Behind Why Some People Get Angry When They Are Hungry -"refined sugar" makes you crash and burn,but sugars like Coconut sugar, maple syrup,etc. don't. use those instead.
Euphoria
Eating can have an euphoric effect on people.
- "Euphoria (/juːˈfɔəriə/; from Ancient Greek εὐφορία, from εὖ eu, "well", and φέρω pherō, "to bear") (semantically opposite of dysphoria) is medically recognized as a mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of well-being, elation, happiness, excitement and joy.Technically, euphoria is a psychological affect, but the term is often colloquially used to define emotion and an intense state of transcendent happiness combined with an overwhelming sense of contentment. It has also been defined as an "affective state of exaggerated well-being or elation." The word derives from Greek εὐφορία, "power of enduring easily, fertility"Certain drugs, many of which are addictive, are known to produce a euphoric state. Certain natural rewards (associated with addictive behavior) such as physical exercise can also induce brief states of euphoria. Euphoria has also been cited as being experienced by those participating in certain religious or spiritual rituals and meditation" - Wikipedia. you don't see diet gurus telling us to stay away from exercising 234893089 hours a day after eating air.. just stay away from love, food and sex </3