You have reached for food many times without being hungry. The handful from the bowl on the counter. The second helping you took without thinking. Not because you have no discipline. Because something pulled you, and you ate before you consciously chose to.

Most people think pleasure-seeking means overindulgence. The binge. Something other people struggle with. So they don’t recognize the pull when it shows up. You don’t need to be overeating dramatically for this pull to be active in your eating. The pull is just wanting the food more than making the choice.

Pleasure is not the enemy. Food is........

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)