I had a crappy childhood and I spent most of my life overweight struggling to control my food intake and literally couldn't help myself around food. What I learned was it wasn't a lifestyle choice, because no one wants to be fat. It was a problem with how I viewed food. It was an addiction if you'd like to call it that but then again I have come to view addictions differently as well.
I honestly think so many people are trying so hard to pin point so many different things and reasons, that we are all stuck searching and the progress is slow.
Here's what I learned: Everyone has something they lacked during their childhood. The focus has been on the big trauma and ACE's do help us see that things like neglect as I suffered are just as damaging. But if we could all just step back and look at this as the big picture. Our childhood from conception to 18 or so is supposed to lay the foundation for us to become healthy-functioning, well-adjusted and balanced adults. Everyone is missing a piece of their foundation. Maybe this is part of our purpose in life, to find all the pieces of our authentic selves. So if we first recognize it as just missing foundation that will make it so much easier to see where the work needs to be done.
Second, stop tripping everything up with so much science. I could have called what happened to me any number of disorders and thought of myself as mentally unhealthy. But I didn't feel that way and I don't think a majority of people do. Let's talk about our emotional health because from what I can tell this is what the majority of this boils down to, not mental, and once you put mental on it you have a stigma and a prescription.
Those missing pieces from our childhood foundation all surround the way we function emotionally, not mentally. We didn't learn to function properly in some form as kids, we drag it unsuspectingly into adulthood and then we face insecurity-driven anxiety causing us to make poor decisions for ourselves.
It truly is as simple as this.
What we are going to learn as the medical profession has to adjust and they try to use the guise of lifestyle choice to lesson the costs is that OBESITY IS NOT A LIFESTYLE CHOICE. And I don't believe any of the other addictions are either. I think we just need to fix those missing pieces of our foundations.
I did my work through hypnotherapy because mine was so deep rooted and I was missing a lot of fundamentals.
Seriously, if we can all just step back for a beat and look at this simple thought process, people can move much more quickly to a place of peace and health. Change the thought process and you change your life!
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