The Truth About Weight Loss: Chapter 6

January 18, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
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Identifying The “Phantom” Hungers
That Food Will Never Satisfy

Whereas eating is a purely functional activity for the majority of the animal kingdom — or so we suspect, anyway — it is an activity that affects humans on many different levels. Since we derive pleasure from certain foods and displeasure from others, we frequently attribute qualities to food — and the act of eating — that have nothing whatever to do with nourishment. If you doubt the truth of this statement, just observe the expression on the face of a chocoholic as they bite into a Belgian chocolate truffle. Think that near-orgasmic expression is just their natural reaction to good nutrition? If so, please put this book down and contact me immediately, as I have a magnificent bridge for sale, and I’ll make you a great deal on it!

We humans are very much sensory-driven creatures who tend to assign emotional qualities to our sensory experiences. There is nothing wrong with this tendency, so long as we don’t let it dominate our actions to the detriment of our physical and emotional well being. As a matter of fact, many of our greatest pleasures are of a sensual nature. It has even been said that we only fall in love as a secondary effect of our powerful sex drive. Now, I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s impossible to deny the fact that we make many of our decisions based upon emotions, and many of those emotions are borne of some positive or negative sensory input.

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