Healing Our Relationship With Food

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

There's something about sitting down to a plate of food that can make us feel immediately guilty. We think about all the things we could have done differently - we shouldn't have had that extra slice of cake, we should have gone for a run before breakfast, we should be eating more greens. But what if, instead of beating ourselves up every time we eat, we took a moment to appreciate how miraculous and nourishing the food is? Just think about all the incredible things that had to happen for that meal to end up on our plates. The seed had to be sown, the sun had to shine, the rain had to fall, the crop had to be harvested. And that's just the journey of the food itself! Then somebody had to cook it, and somebody else had to serve it. So many people and so many processes came together to create this one meal, and it is truly a gift. If we can remember that every time we eat, maybe it will help us break the cycle of shame that food so often brings. Today, we talk about one of my very favorite things; food!

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0:00.0	If you were to ask about pretty much any child in the world, if they'd rather have a chocolate chip cookie,
0:07.5	or a handful of freshly picked, organically grown, cherry tomatoes.
0:14.0	I think pretty much all of them would choose the cookie.
0:18.0	And let's be honest, most of us adults would as well if we weren't trying to make
0:24.2	decisions that were healthy for us. You all know that I have the biggest sweet tooth this side
0:31.3	of the Atlantic Ocean, but full transparency. My family and I, we are rather deliberate in how we eat in terms of being healthy,
0:40.4	but I do have a weakness for a chocolate chip cookie. But today, I want us to pause and think
0:47.9	about that together. Is a chocolate chip cookie really that much more delicious than a freshly picked tomato?
0:57.3	Or, have we been conditioned?
1:00.0	From the time we were little children to want that cookie because it's bad, it's forbidden,
1:07.4	something that we weren't allowed to have every day.
1:13.6	I know, I know, some of you are probably going, Chad, are you crazy?
1:15.6	Of course a chocolate chip cookie tastes better than a tomato.
1:19.6	And hey, that's totally cool if your mind is made up.
1:23.6	But just think about it for a second.
1:36.8	Is a chocolate chip cookie objectively tastier than a freshly picked, perfectly ripe tomato?
1:42.8	The point isn't to make you choose between a tomato and a cookie.
1:46.5	The tomato and the cookie, they don't really matter. They're both delicious in their own way, but what I'm trying to get at is, maybe, just maybe, it's
1:53.5	possible. Now, we've learned to want the cookie, to choose it every time that we get the chance,
2:00.7	no matter what our bodies really need,
2:04.7	because it's kind of this alluring, forbidden fruit, if you will.
2:11.3	We tend to split food into two categories, quote-unquote good and quote-unquote bad. We see good, you can't see me,
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