An excerpt from the book:
I challenge my students to eat what they want when they’re hungry and to feel what they feel when they’re not. Inquiry- the feel-what-you-feel part—allows you to relate to your feelings instead of retreat from them…….Whether you weigh 340 pounds or 150 pounds, is that when you eat when you are not hungry, you are using food as a drug, grappling with boredom or illness or loss or grief or emptiness or loneliness or rejection. Food is only the middleman, the means to the end. Of altering your emotions. Of making yourself numb. Of creating a secondary problem when the original problem becomes too uncomfortable. Of dying slowly rather than coming to terms with your messy, magnificent, and very, very short—even at a hundred years—life. The means to these ends happens to be food, but it could be alcohol, it could be work, it could be sex, it could be cocaine. Surfing the Internet. Talking on the phone.
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Wow! I don’t know if I am deep enough to tie my relationship with food all the way to my relationship with GOD but I do agree with her on using other things/food/activities to numb the pain of my feelings. During the interview, Oprah said that the book could have been called, Women Meth and God or Women Gambling and God. In my case it is: Katina Busyness (of which making wrong food choices is a by product of), and God. Today, take a “Power 15” and just feel what is deep down in you! Just feel it Divas, don’t try to fix it–leave that up to God.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 16-18
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
