With a whopping 70 per cent of women on a diet at any one time, it seems that most of us are unhappy with our bodies. And the reason, warn the experts, is the unhealthy associations we make between the food we eat and our emotions. Fatty foods are seen as indulgent treats, while denying ourselves food is seen as a good thing.
You only have to look at celeb yo-yo dieters to know that our relationship with food in inextricably linked to how we feel about ourselves. Take naturally curvy Jess Simpson, who shrank to a tiny size two in the wake of her split from ex-hubby Nick Lachey and who has fluctuated up and down the scales ever since. But, as she drifts from one failed relationship to the next – ballooning after she was unceremoniously dumped by Tony Romo – the same pattern emerges: Jess is locked in a bitter comfort bingeing/punishing starvation cycle. And, despite recent pictures that show a loved-up, curvy Jess happily munching pasta with her new man, Eric Johnson, it won’t be long before the reality TV star is punishing herself for the calorific Italian meals with another gruelling detox.
“Our belief system is then adapted so that we think we’re being good when we starve ourselves, but to reward ourselves we eat,” says psychologist Linda Papadopoulous. And the key, claims Linda, is to end this eternal love/hate relationship with food, and start to learn to see it in its most simplistic form: as a source of energy.
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