are emotional needs meant to be met by food?

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are emotional needs meant to be met by food? doesn't seem like it,

my happiness comes from my spirituality and food is just an item of

life, meant to be done joyously, but not meant to fulfill my

emotional needs, i don't think. how can an inanimate object fulfill

an emotional need? i think i'm just happy living in the will of god

as i understand it, and i think that's pretty much the end all, food

and everything else just happens to be in my life.

 

i just eat as much produce as i want and i assume it's healing and

fulfilling many mental and emotional needs too, along with the

obvious physical. i eat more now than i probably will as i get more

used to this diet, especially emotionally.

 

i don't know if eating is meant to fulfill our mental and emotional

needs however. it's interesting that you say it that way, as the

common understanding is that, like you said with " during our entire

lifetimes we have given these needs

precedence, such that they have smothered our ability to

feel real hunger " , that cooked food is eaten to suppress proper

emotion.

 

i eat a lot of produce in any given day, i'll tell you that much, but

i don't overeat, i can stop eating produce, any other food, i'll

overeat.

 

even if i ate more during the day, i'd still eat extra at night, it's

just an emotional processing thing that i have to overcome one of

these days. but no matter how much produce or raw nuts i put in my

body it's not going to hurt me.

 

i'm 5'10 " , 145 lbs. i think, which is fine, i look fairly skinny

but's it's really not too skinny.

 

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> For many raw fooders, the questions of how often and how

> much to eat are very difficult. They needn't be. There is

> nothing mysterious about it; everyone knows exactly how much

> food they need to eat. After we've been raw a few years and

> have recovered our hunger signal, we can be assured by our

> bodies that we're eating exactly what we need to perform

> optimally. In the meantime, the signals can be just as

> obvious. We won't be eating just to sustain our bodies, but

> more importantly to fulfill our mental and emotional needs.

> During our entire lifetimes we have given these needs

> precedence, such that they have smothered our ability to

> feel real hunger. They are lies, they are false hunger, but

> in transition they are every bit as legitimate as true

> hunger. How do you know that eating 1/2 melon at 10 am is

> enough? Because you don't want more. It's that simple. If

> you do want more, eat more. If you want two melons, eat

> them. And don't worry that you've eaten " too much " , unless

> you feel absolutely overstuffed and then you can use that

> experience to tell you to not repeat the mistake. It's all

> good!

> Any time you can fulfill your emotional needs

> sufficiently and at the same time keep your eating light,

> you should do so because this speeds up the cleansing and

> healing process. If you find that the cost of eating

> lightly during the day is that you binge uncontrollably at

> dinnertime, however, it's better to eat more during the day.

> If you have to eat almost constantly at first, that's okay

> too. It's a bit of a balancing act, but it's not an exact

> science. Don't stress over it.

> Your consumption looks fabulous. If anything it looks

> too good and I might worry that you wouldn't be able to

> sustain it over the long haul. On the other hand it sounds

> like you're able to read your 'cravings' and respond

> appropriately with the nut cookies. The fruit dessert after

> dinner might become a problem eventually, especially if you

> eat anything fatty at dinner.

> Keep up the good work.

>

> Hi,

>

> I was wondering...I have seen many daily food menues of what

> someone

> ate like Tim and Kay and I am wondering how much is enough?

> I know

> that it is different for each person, but is there a range

> that is

> good to stay in? I am 5 " 0 I am 110lbs. I feel great, but I

> eat way

> less than everyone else. My normal day usually consists of:

> 10am--1/2 a medium cantalope

> 11am--water 8-10oz

> 12pm--Salad + 1-2 bananas

> 1pm---8oz water

> 3:30-4pm---2-3 bananas + 2-3 dates

> 5pm--more water

> 6pm--10oz(big bowl) Mixed veggie salad with dressing+ fruit

> dessert.

>

> This is one of my more filling days. I am wondering if I

> should force

> myself to eat more when I'm not hungry or just listen to my

> body?

> After my last meal I usually don't eat after that. I just

> drink water

> til 8 pm. I am trying to stay away from any condiments, I

> just don't

> seem to want to eat them. Plus when I went raw a couple of

> months ago

> I went and spent $100 on all the condiments, and gourmet

> ingredients

> for raw cokies, cakes and such. Well it's still sitting in

> my

> cupboard. Don't seem to want to eat it. Once in a while I

> get a

> craving for cookies and I'll wip up some nut ones and have

> it after

> my last meal.

> I tried to look it up on the nutri web site. I don't

> understand it, s

> it didn't work. I usually only get about 15 minutes on line

> a day

> so I may not have had enough time to read it through all

> the

> directions.

> Thanks so much for your help,