Your Relationship With Food

Your Relationship With Food

Leveling with yourself isn’t easy. It means asking some though questions about who you are, who and what is important to you, what you need and how you go about getting about it.

To begin the process of self exploration, examine your use of food to determine if you are eating for reasons other than satisfying hunger. These questions might help:

-          Do you often eat to cheer yourself up?

-          Do you find that eating helps numb pain?

-          Do you use food to avoid confronting problems?

-          Are you always struggling to prevent weight gain with strict dieting, fasting or excessively vigorous exercise?

-          Do your concerns about body shape and weight dominate your self image?

-          Do you have recurrent episodes of binge eating in which you eat uncontrollably for a period of time?

-          Do you sometimes feel that your eating binges won’t ever stop?

-          Do you ever deliberately induce vomiting or use diuretics or laxatives to purge yourself of food?

If you answered yes to even one of these questions, there is probably a psychological dimension to your weight problem.