What To Do About Food Anxiety

After I ate breakfast today I was still hungry.
And I freaked out about it a little.
My thoughts started to race about what I could eat, should eat, MUST eat next.

This feeling reminds me to pause.
Because hunger doesn’t actually feel like this. It’s not an emergency. It’s not urgent.
That urgency is always my “ism”.

I told myself - take a shower first. Get dressed for the day.
30 minutes later, the hunger had passed.
If I was still truly hungry, I would have a little bit more of the healthy food I had already eaten.
I could make that decision from a sane and sober place.

This is just a reminder that we have the “thing”.
It disguises itself as URGENT. It cries wolf constantly.
It’s a false urgency. Nothing urgent is happening at all.
Our job is to pause and right-size it. Let it dance in the distance.

Have a great Wednesday friends!