Enlightenment #5 (The Cause of Compulsive Eating)

Just heard someone say the hardest part about weight loss was ... ‘My stomach compulsively making me to eat a ton of food ... even though I don’t want to’ And it’s true. Compulsive eating may feel like a disorder sometimes, like your stomach is the one in charge. This can be the hardest part about losing weight! But before we dive into the solution... let’s just real quick do a thought experiment: Do you see food in binary terms? Because in the Yoga of Weight Loss we try to learn to see all foods as equal. Not nutritionally equal, no. Obviously all foods are not nutritionally equal. But our emotional reaction to eating food needs to become equal. So whether you eat a donut or an avocado, there’s no guilt or shaming either way. When I lived as a monk (and later on during my 6 year stint as a yoga teacher) I really gotta understand the importance of nonjudgment. Because judging yourself after everything you eat will only worsen any compulsion.