Junk Food and Your Ex – Which is more toxic?
First off, I know from experience divorce and breakups are not something that you take lightly. It’s painful, shameful and almost always costly, emotionally and financially.
But like so many other things that are hurtful and hard in life sometimes all you can do is poke a little light-hearted fun at it.
So, with that in mind.
Here’s why breaking up with junk food is like breaking up with your significant other. Firstly, you know when you’re done. It’s never just one thing, is it? It builds, usually with something being the final straw.
There are feelings of shame and guilt. That feeling in the pit of your stomach, the rumbling, that little bit of nausea, a taste in your mouth, just yuck.
Divorce = How could I let myself be treated like that for so long, I must be disgusting… Junk food = I can’t believe I let myself eat that whole packet of Tim Tams, I am disgusting…
You blame yourself, question yourself, you feel ALL the emotions and it is hard to see how your life could be without them or it. Secondly, you have to deal with feelings of separation. At the start, you just can’t stop thinking about it/them. All of a sudden, it’s/they’re everywhere.
The photos on the wall at home, the chocolates at the register at the supermarket. You feel yourself thinking about it all the time, wondering ‘was it that bad? I mean we had some good times didn’t we?’
But here’s the thing, that’s your brain trying to trick you and make you feel better. To get the dopamine hit from the positive emotions, and the sugar hit that replicates the dopamine in your brain.
I’m not even going to go into how naughty your brain is at times. I just want you to remember this…
It was never going to last forever. And neither will the pain. The first few weeks, you will think about it daily. After a month, certain things remind you and trigger you every so often and then three months down the track, it only comes up when somebody else mentions it.
But I guarantee you, a year down the track you’ll be asking yourself, what was I thinking? Why would I do that to myself?
So, if you’re ready to break up with junk food, just like your toxic partner (frankly, I don’t know which is worse for your long term health) send me a PM and we can get you started on the journey back to a healthy you!
