No Such Thing As Eating Disorder / Michal Ron

Yes, there are people who are eating – a lot, even, and there are people who suffer from what is usually called ‘over weight’.

I would like to suggest another conception:

When we eat or weight more than we would have liked to it happens due to one of three reasons:

a. Wrong conceptions: In the modern, Western civilization it is for some reason thought that we should all look the same – more or less, weight the same – more or less, etc. We all know it is not true. Some people are very thin by nature – no matter how much they eat, they gain no weight. Other people are more heavy – no matter how little they eat.
For some reason it is supposed that middle-aged people are supposed to weight as much as they did when they were sixteen – and this is a very big lie. As nature usually have it, (and again – this ‘usually’ have more exceptions that you could possibly think of), we are usually gaining weight beginning in our teens, and all the way until we reach the age of 70, 80, and more.
If you are now 50 years old and weight 30 pounds more than you used to weight when you were 16, maybe it’s normal!!! You don’t look the same way, so why are you supposed to weight the same way?
Maybe your present weight is the healthy, normal weight for you? Maybe way your body looks right now is exactly the way it is supposed to look?

b. Low metabolism: Much too often our thyroid does not work as much as it could. If you go to the doctor with such a problem you’ll be set on pill to the rest of your life. Well, guess what? There are harmless, side-effect-less, naturopathic, nutritional solutions for that! Try eating twice a week sea fish like Tuna or Salmon, and/or sea weed like the Nori they use in Sushi, and see what happens.

c. Emotional problems: Many people who come to me with supposed ‘weight problems’ are actually suffering from (literally) un-digested emotional material. Much too often it is easier for us to eat some more food and maybe feel disgust or shame, rather than feel the loneliness or fear that is there.
I am one of those who do not believe that ‘harmful’ things are harmful. I believe we are always doing our best to cope with any situation and state, only sometimes we luck the knowledge or the courage to do so in the most efficient and benevolent way. If we feel lonely and do not know how to meditate or just be with our pain we might as well eat some chocolate, just like a person who suffers from migraines and takes pills, instead of turning to the many alternative-medicine options that could help her cure the problem, instead of ‘killing’ the symptoms.
When we learn to deal with our emotional fear and pain there goes the need to over-eat in order to refrain from dealing with those feelings.

The solution for what others might call over eating, eating problems or over weight, then, could be most simple –

a. Learn to accept and love your body the way it is. If you are still functioning, if you can walk, eat, see, talk and think, then you have a wonderful and healthy body, that deserves the recognition you owe it.

b. Eat healthy food. For the full nutritional diet consult an alternative healer, or read my paper about this subject.

c. If you think you might suffer from emotional eating go and see someone about it. They could be a therapist, a meditation teacher, or best – someone who will work with your body and feelings together.

I wish you happy and healthy life in your loving body,

Michal Ron.