Episode 29: Controlling Your Life Through Food

Controlling Your Life Through Food

Do you have strict control over food and your body size?

Maybe you're a "control freak" or perfectionist with everything in your life. You find it hard to delegate responsibilities to co-workers or family. You take everything on yourself because you're convinced if someone else handles a task you'll need to re-do it. 

Perhaps you're going through something in your life where you feel completely out of control:

✅Being a new mom.

✅Your body changing as you age or through menopause.

✅Taking care of a sick parent. 

✅Hating your full-time job and feeling "stuck" in it. 

Perhaps you need to be in tight control of your health. Maybe a doctor said you're at risk for heart disease, diabetes, or another disease. Perhaps there is a strong family history of a disease that you fear will be passed on to you. Your fear may lead to tight control over food, exercise, and other parts of your life in an effort to avoid disease. 

In this episode of Speaking of Hungry, I'm talking about control. Whether you are a perfectionist, going through something in your life that feels out of control, or desperate to control the fate of your health, any of these situations can fuel a chronic dieter or disordered eater to tightly control food. This leads to food obsession, preoccupation with your body (internally and externally), and an unhealthy relationship with food and body.

Can you relate to the need for being in control and its relationship to how you eat? Listen to this episode and let me know your control story! Shoot me a DM on Instagram or Facebook at @AlisonBarkmanRD or contact me here.

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