In Session with Marc David: When It Seems Like All There Is To Live For is Food

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Psychology of Eating Podcast, Marc David speaks with 50-year old Samaria from Costa Rica. Samaria has Type 2 Diabetes and high cholesterol, and has been instructed by her physician to avoid certain foods that could be detrimental to her health. But Samaria is having a hard time making the nutritional changes she knows would be good for her.

In their conversation, Samaria reveals she's been struggling for most of her life with deep depression. Food is the only real pleasure in her life. So giving up the foods that make her feel good sounds like a recipe for an even less fulfilling life.

What is Samaria to do?

Eat the foods she loves but will perhaps cost her a longer life?

Or avoid unhealthy food, but live a life with no real pleasure or fulfillment?

As Marc explores, there's an important third option that Samaria — and the rest of us who find emotional sustenance from food — will do well to consider.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology of Eating podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway into a happier, healthier life.
0:11.4	Now, here's your host, eating psychology expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David.
0:23.7	Greetings, everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating,
0:28.4	and here we are in the Psychology of Eating podcast. I'm with Samaria today. Welcome, Samaria.
0:34.7	Hi, Mark. Hi, I'm glad we're doing this. I'm glad we're here. And my favorite
0:40.8	question to ask is if you could wave your magic wand and get whatever you wanted with food
0:47.0	and body, what would that be for you? I love that question. And I have been thinking a lot about it.
0:53.8	I think I need to give you a little bit of context to answer it because I think I need to give you a little bit of context to answer it because right now I am
0:59.4	suffering from some chronic illnesses like type 2 diabetes and I have high levels of blood cholesterol.
1:07.7	And I know very well what I have to do to help in this illnesses because they are related
1:17.5	to their lifestyle habits.
1:20.0	But despite that I know that, and I am working with a nutritionist, that is really good,
1:25.1	but despite that I know, I should eat these foods and I should,
1:29.6	these foods are good for me and these other foods are not good for me right now or
1:35.2	ever, but especially not right now.
1:37.0	But despite that, I can find within me the inner stress, the discipline, the determination to follow with these
1:50.5	dietary plans because all my life for decades now, I have been using these foods like pastries,
2:00.2	pasta, bread, chocolate, ice cream, this type of foods to regulate my emotions,
2:06.3	like if I feel anxious or if I feel sad or if I feel boring or things like that, I use
2:13.9	foods to feel better.
2:17.6	So if I have to let them go and live my life without them,
2:24.1	I feel like I am missing something.
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