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Body Image and Food Issues

Do you have a love/hate relationship with food?  Some days you are eating healthy, enjoying the taste of the food...and the next day you are overwhelmed to the point of nausea or starving to the point of exhaustion?  Do you emotionally eat?  Does food give you a way to control the world you live in?  Some people call it comfort.  Others call it guilt.  What is it for you?

 

We all have a relationship with food.  We have to for survival.  

The question then becomes, is our relationship healthy?   

 

Body image and food issues are quite possibly two of the biggest issues

in our country.  Ask any of your friends and I am sure you will find at

least one on a diet.  Probably one that overeats or emotionally eats.  

Probably one that spends countless hours at the gym.  Probably one

that has suffered from an "eating disorder."  Our relationship with

food and our bodies does not have to be this way.  

 

There is one major misconception when it comes to

body image and food issues that needs to be addressed:  

 

"It is only a woman's issue."  LIE.

Men, just like women have struggled with their

relationship with food.  Here's one man's story

of his struggle and ability to develop a healthier

relationship with his body.

Healthy Eating Resource Tip: Supportive Accountability

Recovery in any form is harder alone.  Find one or two close friends that you can be honest with about your struggles with your

relationship with food and your body.  Ask them to support you to make healthier choices to embrace the body God has given you.

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