wenwu Posted March 8, 2018 Hello I am not far off finishing a 3 day fast. It has been an interesting experience but I can't wait for it to be over I have been thinking about food for the last day or so. I haven't really been having much in the way of cravings overall, mainly been thinking of the relationship people have to food I do quite a bit of heavy weight training and when my friend started at the gym I told him his relationship to food would likely change. It wouldn't be a social pleasureable thing any long but he would view it like a fuel. Other people would view food in a different way I guess depending on their lifestyle and habits. So... What does food mean to you? Some answers I have heard or used before A need A fuel An addiction A comfort A pleasure An indulgence A medicine 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kar3n Posted March 8, 2018 6 hours ago, wenwu said: What does food mean to you? Some answers I have heard or used before A need A fuel An addiction A comfort A pleasure An indulgence A medicine All of the above, depending on the circumstance, and what I am going to eat. I would also add that food can be healing. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
七星門 Posted March 8, 2018 Fasting definitely changes your relationship with craving. Returning the hunger/satiety response to a balanced state is foundational, IME, to eliminating excess. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cheya Posted March 8, 2018 Including more healthy fat in my diet has shifted the balance of some of those factors for me... less craving, less need, less intense over food... longer burning fuel... 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rickie Posted March 8, 2018 Food is like a big family to me...that I visit too often. :-) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted March 8, 2018 I'll add a few points -- food can also be viewed in the social context, as part of cultural identity unifier divider a medium of self-expression (especially if you cook) art the way to someone's heart poison killer religion passion weapon of mass destruction path to salvation a boring chore eye-opener disappointment evolutionary dead-end the great deception a revelation consciousness manipulator/extinguisher and more... That might be part of the reason so many people swear by fasts. Fasting not only removes the physical food from the picture -- it removes millennia's worth of complexities from an individual unconscious intertwined with the collective unconscious and gives all those ontogenic and phylogenic memories a rest, thereby lightening not just the body but also the mind. Then again, the collective phylogenic memory of countless famines and chronic (lifelong) mass-scale under-eating throughout our agricultural history might be an unconscious fasting deterrent for many... even though "feast then fast" was the regular business-as-usual way we lived for countless ages before agriculture. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vonkrankenhaus Posted March 8, 2018 (edited) "Food" is a condensed form of the overall Environment that we consume in an interface wherein that external and our internal environments make balance and become One "again". Explaining the "again" part: This is due to the illusion of our existence as somehow separate from our Environment. In this way, we are a manifestation of our Environment and there is no actual "difference" between these. Modern way is to wreck this relationship in every way - physical, psychological, and so on, until humans are dependent on proprietary synthetic technology and cannot integrate with their source directly. -VonKrankenhaus Edited March 8, 2018 by vonkrankenhaus 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rara Posted March 8, 2018 16 hours ago, wenwu said: A need A fuel An addiction A comfort A pleasure An indulgence A medicine All of these. But I am working on passing on moods that make me want to binge or eat for indulgence etc. Fasting always makes me enjoy meals much more. Happy breaking of the fast! 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wenwu Posted March 9, 2018 4 hours ago, Rara said: Fasting always makes me enjoy meals much more. Happy breaking of the fast! Ah yeah food tastes wonderful today... trying to control myself, not to eat everything 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
