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Does your food talk to you? 

And so it goes.

The battle with food never ends. As long as you believe food can talk to you, you will stay in a struggle.

But food cannot talk. 

It doesn’t have lips. 

When we say things like, “the cupcake was calling my name,” we hand our power over to the cupcake. 

Oh, and another thing: food is not your friend.

Food is NOT your friend, Silly! And it CANNOT comfort you. It doesn’t have arms, for goodness sakes. 

Oh dear. I understand. That can be difficult to accept. Because if food is not your friend, if it cannot talk to you, if it cannot comfort you, then what? 

What’s left? 

And that is EXACTLY the question we ought to be asking ourselves. Who or what can we turn to when the pursuit of happiness seems so elusive? If not food, what then? 

Our bodies are hard-wired to fight, or take flight, whenever we face a harmful or stressful situation.  

We run. But unless we know what we’re running from, we just keep running. For some people, the running takes them straight to the refrigerator. 

It’s a temporary fix. A band aid. A trick we play on ourselves.  

Until we know better. When we know better, we do better, as Maya Angelou always says. 

Once we realize that food is just a bunch of ingredients in a bowl, we take our power back. Because the only power food ever has is that which we willingly give to it. We get caught up in a vicious cycle. 

That’s the good news. It’s all good news my little Chicklets. There is no bad news. It’s not necessary to kick yourself in the shins for having had a love affair with food. 

You didn’t know any better. And now you do. 

Put food in its place and use it to feed your body. 

Then figure out what it will take to feed your starving mind. One thing’s for sure… it’s not food. But of course you knew that already, because food has never ever ever never solved a problem, found a cure, paid a debt, saved a marriage, or erased the memory of a bad childhood. 

Only you can do that. 

Now that’s what I call power. 

Go get it.

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Psst: I actually made this blog post into a video… check it out: Food doesn\’t have lips! and let me know what you think! 

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