Breathe
By Areli Paz
Eating: Daily celebration of flavors, textures and emotions that enter through the mouth.
Food: The most intimate part of a culture.
Mouth: Lethal weapon, either enjoy or kill.
The therapist says that the good or bad opinions we make of someone around us only reflects much of who we are and what we do.
What comes out of our mouth must be careful and measured.
What goes in much more.
Food is not just food put together on a plate with geographical representation.
Flavors, colors, textures and culinary experiences also represent our emotions, the way we relate to food also has to do with our mental health.
Therefore, eating disorders are also treated by psychiatrists and therapists.
In anorexia, you believe that food makes you fat and so you limit or avoid eating.
In bulimia you believe that food makes you fat, so you must take it out of your body.
In binge eating disorder, you have no restraint, binge eating makes you feel good.
In orthorexia you believe that lettuce and water will make you healthy, it is an obsession with healthy, you are a chooser or you think you are.
They are mental illnesses, serious and with deadly consequences when you do not know how to stop them.
My relationship with food was always bad. At grandma's house you had to eat everything, if you liked it you got double and if you didn't, you got double.
I grew up believing that cakes, sweets and gastronomic lust was only for special occasions.
During the process of depression or anxiety, food becomes a false plank of salvation, you eat and drink a lot to fill an emptiness, one that regularly was not in the stomach, but in the soul.
Then you stop eating because you feel that every bite is the enemy.
In the process of regaining mental health we also come to eating well. Healthy food keeps me stable and generates the necessary brain connections to survive without bad thoughts, those catastrophic ones that feel like they are killing you.
Moms and dads should instill in their children a fascination for food, not the binge eating kind, but the enjoyment kind where your emotional voids are not about chocolates, hamburgers or double-fried French fries.
Being overweight speaks volumes about emotions, science has found that this shell hides much of who we are and translates into poor health.
Life unintentionally led me to the gastronomy industry and it has been one of the best discoveries of my life.
Who would have thought? Today, I love and enjoy food, good drink and the best part is that I don't use it to fill emotional voids. I don't have anchored the desire to try something to a need to escape.
I have managed to anchor the flavors to the emotion of a good conversation, close friendships, memorable getaways, new flavors, unique places and emotions that don't kill me.
Eat rich is not only a good wish, it is a daily prayer so that everything that enters your mouth is always something you enjoy, that you remember and that you never feel that it is killing you because of your bad thoughts.
That's why I take care of what I put in my mouth, because every bite is also shared emotions, stored or harmful.
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