Are You a Body Or A Soul?!
Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., LMFT, CLC, SDS
Why is it always chocolate or potato chips?
Okay, I lied!
Sometimes it’s pizza and French fries.
But, it’s never salad or a low-fat yogurt.
I’m not saying I don’t eat those. But I don’t have crazy urges for them.
I just eat that cause I know it’s the responsible way to eat.
So, what was Gd thinking making the delicious stuff more caloric. Harder to resist? More delicious?
You can eat celery to your hearts delight. No detriment? In fact, you actually burn calories eating it.
But the only way you burn calories from pizza is walking to the counter to order another slice!
The other day my kid drove 40 minutes for a special brand of pizza. Tell me the last time you did that for a head of lettuce?!
What’s a human to do? Cows seem to go wild for grass. But, not us- even when we opt for a salad it has so many items added into it, it might as well be an ice-cream sundae. Chips and tortillas, crunchy noodles, raisins and craisins, candied pecans and sugary dressings. And then since you feel you resisted the pasta, and instead ate a salad, you feel entitled to have a dessert!
Something is definitely wrong with this picture.
As long as things are going along smoothly, you can usually stick with a diet. That is, of course, if you can actually get yourself to start one. But, the minute you’re tired, depressed, locked in, or let loose in a supermarket- all bets are off. You do not opt for cottage cheese. You’re suddenly in the nosh aisle or home in the snack closet.
Did you ever have one of those friends with a crazy metabolism, who just couldn’t keep their weight on? I’m asking ‘ever’, cause who would keep an aggravating friend like that? Just kidding!!!!
But seriously we learn to share and trade at an early age, so why can’t we lend and borrow metabolism every once in a while too?! Maybe there could be a chessed fund or Gemach for it.
Did you ever notice how at a parlor meeting so much food gets put out, yet hardly gets touched. But suddenly, when everyone’s leaving the foil wrap or ‘to go bags” come out. It’s not for you of course – it’s just to take home for your spouse or kids. Now come on– do they really even see half of it? I think it makes it as far as your car?! Then you’ve got to at least taste that pareve devil dog!
You know what’s interesting these days-people are making ‘drive by’ everything. Why isn’t a zoom event good enough? Because, then people wouldn’t get their ‘to go bag’. That’s half the reason we celebrate. A kid gets a bris and we get a bagel. The kid gets married and we get a hot chocolate chip cookie to take home. So, how can we suddenly just ask people to sit and participate in an event with no culinary reward. And trust me once someone’s already venturing out to drive to an event -it better not just be for sprouts or arugula.At a minimum – it’s gotta be a bagel or muffin!!!
So, what am I going on about?
Urges for our yummy food get us every time. Sure, they do make imitation or modified everything– Cauliflower pizza, carob chocolate, fat free potato snacks. And they help sometimes …..
But when that compelling moment calls you and won’t let up – authentic is the only way to go. Otherwise, you may eat everything in sight till you get the urge filled anyway.
Whoops – I might have lied again!
There is some wisdom that if you resist, you won’t have the familiar taste to pull you down the slippery slope.
Looks like it’s your choice -stay strong or fill that urge.
I guess it all comes down to the higher realm. Are you a body or a soul? If you’re a soul, then who cares how the body looks. Eat whatever you want! Hooray!!!!
Whoops maybe I lied again……
If you’re re a soul maybe having some self-control and discipline matters too!
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivkirosenwald@gmail.com
