No Need to Trust Your Appetite
So many disregulated eaters want
desperately to trust their appetite. However, focusing on trusting it per se is nothing but a red herring. Rather than trust
it, you need only to follow it
because it knows what it’s doing whether you trust it or not.
Say, you’re driving and get a flat,
so you open your trunk to get out a tire iron. To fix your flat, do you need to
trust the tire iron or use it to loosen the lug nuts? I’d say, those nuts
aren’t budging unless you put that iron into action. Maybe you think the tire
iron is old and rusted and won't work. Doubt makes no difference. Trusting or believing isn’t going to get you back on the road. If you want to fix the flat, you’ll have to use the iron to the
best of your ability to loosen those lug nuts.
Similarly, you don’t have to trust
your appetite for it to do right by you. Using appetite is what humans have
been doing for hundreds of thousands of years to survive and thrive. It’s the mechanism or system which has
evolved for feeding ourselves. Our ears are made to hear, our eyes to see, our
lungs to breathe, and our hearts to pump blood through our bodies. It doesn’t
matter whether we trust these organs or distrust them. They do what they do
because that’s how they’ve evolved over millennia.
Ditto appetite. You veer off course
by mistakenly relying on your brains to make decisions about food. Bodies are
made to know when they’re hungry, which foods satisfy them, how to savor ...
Source: Normal Eating - Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs