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Weight Loss/Maintenance

LauraNb

(34 posts)

3. Food and emotions...

Reply to Puzzledtraveller (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 09:19 AM

Oct 2013

I think there is a huge emotional link to food. Lots of people 'reward' themselves with food, not usually healthy food either and I think parents reward kids with sweets etc too, which is a bad habit to get into.
Maybe people who were rewarded with sweets as a child associate that kind of food with getting attention and equate it with love?

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Do some parents give their children sweets just to make them smile? [View all] Puzzledtraveller Oct 2013 OP

yes and it might well be subconscious ginnyinWI Oct 2013 #1

"Salt, Sugar, Fat" handmade34 Oct 2013 #2

Food and emotions... LauraNb Oct 2013 #3

I don't think there's anything wrong w/ that MissMillie Oct 2013 #4

you said what I was thinking laundry_queen Nov 2013 #5