Food and Feelings: January 2008 Archives
A Diet Survivors message board member asks, "Can I suggest a great book to follow up How to Survive Your Diet? Geneen Roth's book When You Eat at The Refrigerator Pull Up a Chair." 
I haven't read this book, but I hear it's a great book, and I love the title. Besides self-loving, the title is also humorous.
I don't know if many of you realize this, but humor is an effective part of learning normal eating, and learning so many other things too. Laughing at yourself will actually take you through the process faster.
Some folks come into adulthood and beyond, never really learning to laugh at themselves or finding humor in things, but I've observed that people seem to be able to learn this at any age.
This may sound counter-intuitive, but sometimes in the name of self-loving, we erroneously refrain from goofing on our own frailties. But the truth is that when we are secure and confident, we are also secure and confident about our foibles and weaknesses. I goof on mine all the time. I have so many!
It's interesting to me that Karen R. Koenig, my favorite normal eating guru, is the same way. We even call ourselves "stupid" from time to time. It's fun.
Has anyone here noticed that when you embrace normal eating, you find out that some things you learned are turned on their heads? Conventional wisdom turns out to be wrong on so many fronts, including humor.
We discover we were misled.
Gwen Shamblin, author of the Christian book The Weigh Down Diet, calls this phenomenon "opposite world."
Think a little bit opposite today. Try and see what it's like to lovingly goof on yourself. Let yourself laugh hard. You'll find your way out of your eating dysfunction faster. No kidding.
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