. Cape Town (South Africa), 30/05/2015.- Big wave surfer James Taylor from South Africa rides a wave at an offshore reef know as Dungeons off Cape Town, South Africa 30 May 2015. Surfers used powered waverunners to tow themselves into the fast moving swells which are too big to paddle into. The boards are specialised heavier and shorter than normal big wave surfboards with footstraps. Winter swells driven by storms in the South Atlantic have started breaking on the Cape's outer reefs providing good conditions for big wave surfing. EFE/EPA/NIC BOTHMA

The ways out of compulsive eating

Elisabeth C. Wajnryt Compulsive Eating

The ways out of compulsive eating

Compulsive eating is like a dark night in a rough sea of waves that lead us to many directions. Immersed in this suffering, we may feel inclined to do a diet of proteins, or one that indicate increasing complex carbohydrates, or taking supplements that at first sight will make all the difference, or greatly increasing the load of physical exercise!

To find the way out of it we need a lighthouse, which indicates at least where starting to swim! Our lighthouse is learning how to reconnect with the internal signals of hunger, selectivity and satiety. With them we can begin to understand what we eat and what eats us!

This is the first part of my book which constitutes the great portal that we first cross. Then we will get to the various doors of Compulsive Eating:

Psychological doors about eating for emotional reasons, Physiological doors about some of the mechanisms that regulate weight, Cultural and Spiritual doors about the values and pressures regulating our relationship with food and appearance. In each one of them, everyone will find many individual aspects that can be both the causes and the consequences of his challenges for achieving  a better balance with  body and  food.

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