Me and Food

Activities, peoples, and ideas in ones life change over time. They either evolve, disintegrate, are distorted, or may just simple change as one becomes more aware of themselves, there place in the world, and how they effect the environment around them. Like all other things my relationship food has done these exact things. Although it may have not have happened in the order described above my relationship with food was one that began with being distorted, then it disintegrated, moving into the stage where it evolved, ending in final stage of constant change. These changes in my relationship with food are a direct result of my heightening awareness of myself and my body, how I fit into the world and how I want to fit into the world and finally how I impact my surroundings and the environment around me.
My ever-changing relationship with food began before I was even aware that we as humans have a relationship with food, when I was very young. It began in distorted manner of not understanding appropriate eating habits, and often eating not because I was hungry but because I was worried, nervous or simply bored. These habits all led to me becoming extremely unhealthy and obese. My relationship with food did not begin to change until I was junior in high school when the relationship started to disintegrate. When I say disintegrate I mean I gave food little to no thought and only viewed it as something I did once in awhile to fill a biological need. This attitude although maybe the other extreme to how I treated food before led me to look and be healthier with a large amount of weight loss. Then my relationship with food started to evolve; as I became a healthier person my views on food became healthier and less extreme from one spectrum to the other. Meaning I started to learn how to eat good portions of god food and not only fill a biological need but also appreciate and enjoy the different kinds of food that are not good for you but also delicious. This led to my relationship with food being a ever changing one as I see it playing a different role in my life, as my view of the world changes.
An understanding of myself, my impact on my environment, and how I want to fit into this environment has directly fueled my relationship with food and its changes over time. For example when I became aware of my body image I strived to change it through my eating habits. Then when I realized food was more then a tool to fulfill a need and something that should be enjoyed in appropriate amount, because it was a resource from the earth my relationship with food began to evolve. Finally when becoming more educated on the different types of foods and there affect on our environment, from sources like this class my relationship with food is one that constantly changes and forms new aspects.
Over all my relationship with food fits into the food discussion in a interesting way. I say this because I feel like the different stages of my relationship with food represent some commune views of food over all. For example like the first stage of my relationship with food, it takes on the viewpoint of the part of are society that eat in a obsessive unhealthy way. The second stage represents the part of society that still views food in a somewhat unhealthy way just on the opposite end of the spectrum. Finally there is a small portion of people in our society that have a well balanced habits between eating when it’s necessary and truly enjoying food.
Over all I don not believe my relationship with food is one that is done developing. I say this because my outlook of myself, my affects on my surroundings, and my over all view of the world will continue to change. As my relationship with food develops I believe societies relationship will food will continue to develop. Hopefully this will lead us to take on healthier habits as a whole and have a healthier earth and bodies’.