How We Eat

How often has this happened: You plan a delicious meal with friends. Pizza or pasta, cake, pastry, maybe with alcohol flowing freely — all of it tempting, comforting and delicious. Everyone indulges and you feel happy. Fast forward a few hours/days/weeks/months and you find yourself swearing off such indulgences due to the havoc they bring to your energy levels/skin/digestion/future-bikini-clad figure. And yet…. we do it again, and again, and again! What drives this behaviour?

When we choose food we tend to focus on how it will taste and how it will make us feel as we are eating it. Then we jump to the possible physical repercussions of that food — will it make me fat, thin, bloated, in pain?

However there are various things that happen in the body in between these beginning and end stages of eating behaviour. Between the stage where we revel in the taste sensation— and the stage where we all too harshly judge ourselves for the way we look (or perceive we look) and feel.

There is a whole series of events that may go some way to explaining why the above is a chain of behaviours we replay over and over again. And how, armed with that knowledge, we can change our behaviours and hence the way our body reacts .

In the next few blogs I will be exploring these events in small bite-sized chunks. Check out the first one — all about what makes us hungry.