Lost in Pasta: Adventures in EMOTIONAL Eating

Jen Gotch is OK...Sometimes

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🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As kids, we are given food to soothe us, to reward us and to celebrate happy occasions. So it makes sense that as we get older and control our own food intake, we might start to use food as a crutch, or even as a drug. It’s emotional eating - The perfect mix of self soothing and self sabotage and food, unlike many other drugs, is legal and easy to get your hands on. If you are struggling with some bad eating habits and consider McDonald's french fries to be a stronger, more satisfying drug than cocaine, i encourage you to give it a listen.

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0:00.0	Favorite comfort food?
0:03.0	Pasta.
0:05.0	Spaghetti.
0:07.0	Specifically, spaghetti with butter and pine nuts.
0:11.0	Chocolate?
0:12.0	Chocolate? Comfort food? Chocolate? Chocolate?
0:13.0	Comfort food?
0:14.0	Really?
0:15.0	Huh.
0:16.0	I've been eating a lot of chocolate since I got here.
0:18.0	Should I be worried?
0:20.0	Yes.
0:21.0	I should be worried.
0:22.0	Very worried.
0:23.0	So as kids, we're given food to soothe us, to reward us and to celebrate happy occasions. So it makes sense that as we get older... to or even as a drug. I definitely do. I'll get high on some food. I'll get low on some food.
0:46.6	It's emotional eating. The perfect mix of self-soothing and self-sabbatage.
0:53.2	And food, unlike many other drugs, is legal
0:56.4	and easy to get your hands on.
0:58.2	So in this episode, I'm gonna talk a bit
1:00.6	about how family dynamics have contributed to this habit, the hows and
1:04.4	wise of emotional eating, hint, there's pasta, a lot of pasta, and of course how we can
1:11.7	work to get it under control.
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