I'm finding that I, like many people, like instant gratification. My weight has been doing well. I am down to 251.0 lbs and staying there right now. There is a slow downward trend. My blood sugars have been excellent at 105 fasting. It is hard for me to be patient as my body does its work. I want to look better NOW! That being said, I am happy with what it happening. I know that weight taken off slowly usually stays off. I also acknowledge that my body is getting healthier. This is seen through my blood sugars as well as when I have good days, I feel the way I imagine normal is supposed to feel.
With that I was thinking on the way in to work today, what if the development of our relationship with food is the same as our emotional development. We can get stunted in our emotional growth, can we get stunted in our growth with food? If so, like emotional growth, will we have to go through all of the developmental phases to reach maturity? What does maturity look like? What are the different stages? Or is it that we have to go through our emotional stages to come to the maturity point with our food? There is no doubt that they are tied to each other, but are they dependent on each other. Is there a certain point in our development that they become less intertwined?
As I said, these are musing, but ones that I am curious about. I think so little is known on how we develop our relationship with food, that we don't know how to fix it, all we know is it can be broke.
Have a wonderful weekend! Shabbot Shalom!
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown
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