You Are WHY You Eat: Change Your Food Attitude, Change Your Life

by Ramani Durvasula

the world offers you advice for its own purposes.

But this knowing can also be led by scripts rather than by listening to ourselves.

Freud argued that this disconnect between spider senses and society is a primary source of our unhappiness or discontent.

You eat when you’re not hungry. You refuse to throw away food.

It’s about using data and your own intuition to make a decision, and making honest decisions by honoring yourself instead of the loud voices around you.

a stakeholder is anyone whose opinion matters to you and influences your behavior and choices.

it’s time we started “assuring” each other and ourselves.

People who struggle with weight also struggle with the desire to please others.

This is true of myself. Is it true of others I know?

If we eat to please, cook to please, and then, in the midst of this pleasing parade, feel so out of control that we also eat to soothe, numb, cheer up, shut down, and distract, food becomes a multipurpose drug. An easy way to break that cycle is to stop eating for anyone but yourself.

The problem with pack- aged and structured diet plans is that we outsource all the choice, as well as the responsibility, and in so doing, we also outsource our

The problem with packaged and structured diet plans is that we outsource all the choice, as well as the responsibility,