Relationships...

What a word...relationships. It's used to describe so many things, you have a relationship with your children, your parents, your siblings, your friends, your boyfriend/girlfriend, your husband/wife, your co-workers, your food....yes I said food. Here's the thing, I've had a relationship with food for a long time. Honestly I have realized that over the last 12 years I had a love hate relationship actually. I found that food never let me down, it never led me on, it never lied to me, it never disappointed me....but wait, it really did do all those things, and I just never realized it. I use to love to eat, pasta, pizza, sweets, a 4 course meal, whatever it was I would enjoy every moment of it because it filled all the other pain that happen to be going on at the time. I was like plaster "literally" filling in the cracks in my life. What an odd way to put it, but FINALLY I realized it.

Has it changed? Yes and No. Yes because I don't eat anymore to take the pain, disappointment or whatever negative thing going on in my life away. But No because I have learned to enjoy food, to actually taste it and to experience it. There is a scene in the movie Eat, Pray, Love when the main character and her friend at the time go to Naples Italy to experience the best pizza in the world and Julia Roberts, the main character explains that she's having "a relationship" with her pizza, but it's because she's truly enjoying it! That's how it should be; eating food should be something we experience...not something that we just do. Of course we eat to survive but do we eat to live or live to eat....I now eat to live.

Relationships come and go, we know that. Some will last just a moment and others will last a life time. But what we should be doing is instead of just living through the motions of a relationship we need to experience it. Yes, there will be pain and yes there will be disappointment but given the right experience it will be amazing...just like pizza. :)

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Total Weight loss: -126 pounds