Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season.

This week's episode, Food Won't Fix That Problem, opens with a true story of a time when I was

trying to eat my way through a storm of dark grief. Since the problem wasn't hunger, food didn't

fix it. Do you find yourself alternating between healthy and unhealthy eating habits?

Are you stuck like that?

To paraphrase a saying, it's not what you're eating.

It's what's eating you.

Let's listen again to three suggestions that can help us handle this matter wisely.

Let me tell you about a time that I was trying to solve a problem the wrong way.

I was in a short-term rental home visiting my adult children in Minnesota for 10 days,

so I had the home as like the home base where they could come and go and we could do things together,

and I could even do home cooking if I wanted to.

It was a nice

arrangement. But this one particular evening, it wasn't even meal time, and I wasn't hungry.

But I wandered into the kitchen. Have you ever done that? Can you relate? And then I found a bag of

chips. So I opened up the bag. I measured out a serving, sort of, because the serving size was 15 chips,

but everybody knows broken ones don't count, right?

Then I needed something sweet to offset the salty.

So I wandered back into the kitchen and found a box of ginger cookies and took a short stack of those and walked away munching. Next, I

opened the fridge. I was in the kitchen again, and I had a wedge of sharp cheddar cheese.

Really strange combination going on here, but most of it was mindless. When I came back in the kitchen

about an hour later and just picked up the can of cashews and opened the lid,

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