Why do I think of food all the time?
It seems I am thinking about food more than normal while on my diet or intermittent fasting thing. Why is this? Is this normal?
Where does our obsession with food come from? Is it a historical thing from millennia ago when we as humans were just starting out and food was scarce?
Reasons for our food obsession
- Do the people we hang out with continually talk about food, calories, diets, shakes, exercise, and this is all that is on our minds.
- Is the diet you are following putting enough nutrients in your body to eliminate cravings?
The only reason I can think of for always having food on my mind is mental conditioning over years of eating junk food to crave certain tastes.
Have I become obsessed with food.
I had, but am slowly working away from that.
Going from eating all-day-every-day to eating between 12pm and 6pm on my intermittent fasting kick, is making me think of food outside my eating window. I don’t eat, but food and the sweeter things in life are always occupying my mind. When I am in front of my computer working, the food is on the back-burner. The minute I get up I think about food and water has been my saviour.
I don’t for one second believe my body was craving food because of hunger. I have proven this in my intermittent fasting regime. My body, as I can see it, was craving certain additives in the junk food I was living on.
Eating in secret, as I was growing up, had a tremendous impact on my life. I came to realise as I got older; I was behaving like a drug addict or alcoholic by hiding food around my bedroom where no one would see it. Or as I got older, food wouldn’t only be stored in the kitchen, but in my bedroom and other areas in the home. These were always the sweets and cookies; definitely nothing healthy.
Even today, I still keep some things in my room, but I have moved to the healthy alternative, like almonds and other nuts.
A reason I continually think of food now is my struggle to lose weight. I can eat almost nothing during the day, yet still put on a few grams. It is frustrating. The next step is thinking it doesn’t matter what I do, I will never lose weight and just go back to eating all the rubbish I did in the past.
The struggle is real!
Food has always been a negative influence on my life, and getting to a point where my days are not filled with thinking about it, is the goal.
Eat to live; don’t live to eat.
I can’t remember where I read this, but it is a very effective message.
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