By: Mike Bundrant
(NaturalNews) One of the basic tenets of NLP or Neurolinguistic Programming is that meaning is malleable.
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Meaning is subjective and open to personal interpretation. This means that you can change the perceived meaning of just about anything as long as you are somewhat conscious and mentally flexible.
So often we behave as if overeating were something positive. We reward ourselves with food, celebrate with food, self-medicate with food.
We revel in the glory of food! And it is wonderful, until we overeat. Then, all manner of hell breaks loose. We aren’t always paying attention to the moment eating becomes overeating. Yes, that moment slips right by, doesn’t it?
To help myself and you, I’ve reframed overeating to shake some sense into us.
Please bear mind that the following definitions do not refer to eating, but overeating.
Here are seven definitions of overeating to consider:
1. Overeating is not a reward – it is a punishment.
This one is inspired by the Drew Carey photo that Natural News shared recently. Carey said, “Eating crappy food is not a reward. It is a punishment.”
Eating any junk food at any time may be called overeating by definition.
2. Overeating is self-sabotage.
Beyond mere punishment, overeating is full scale self-sabotage. By eating too much too often, you feel lethargic, mentally sluggish and even ashamed or worthless.
Beyond that, you are doomed to self-consciousness, chronically worried about how you are being judged. Self-confidence seems so far away…
3. Overeating is a sign of emotional immaturity.
Children are known to lack impulse control and require immediate gratification. So many adults never grow out of these childish tendencies and would rather sacrifice their health than deny themselves a cookie.
4. Overeating is arrogant.
We glut ourselves while millions in the world are starving. We justify it by claiming there is nothing we can do, so why not consider ourselves lucky.
5. Overeating is violent.
It’s violence against your body, which is forced to compensate for the onslaught of food, taxing the tissues and organs to the point of eventual failure.
Rotten teeth, a leaky gut, fatty liver, impacted colon, exhausted pancreas, blown out knees, jammed up spine, clogged arteries, arthritic joints, a polluted blood stream and a foggy brain are the casualties of this war.
6. Overeating is a public confession that you lack self-control.
Yes, they see the evidence.
7. Overeating is a death sentence.
A shocking 18.2% of premature deaths in the United States between 1986 and 2006 were associated with excess body mass, according to a team of sociologists led by a Columbia University demographer. This estimate was published online in the American Journal of Public Health.