Emotional Eating?

Is emotional eating just a new version of the GP’s default spout, ‘it’s all in your head’?

Is ‘emotional eating’ the specialized version of psycho blab used by psychologists, psychiatrists and other shrinks and brain-tunnellers like personal coaches, health writers etc.?

They think you should be fessing up to eating for love, distraction, masochism, victim takeover/maintainance, or you name it.

They’re convinced that if you just admit to doing this sneak eating to maintain your psyche, you can then go on some fruit and veggie diet that will free you. After all, you are now enlightened. All you have to do is stop doing that awfull sneak eating and get those horrible fat, salt and sugar junk carbs out of your house. Just flush it into a garbage bag and put it on the curb.

Holy Crap! What won’t we come up with next in pseudo science?!

Let’s get off this pathetic emotional eating kick. It has nothing to do with science! NOTHING!

I like sweets. Real sweets. SUGAR. I do not eat sugar for love, approval or any of the other psycho blab reasons.

I eat sugar to keep my bloodsugar balanced. I’m on the prowl when my blood sugar takes a dip. I have to do something about that. My brain activates my hand and I reach for fat, salty, sweet things. They work. I feel better. Some of these things can be found in things I like better than others. I’m very fussy about the flavours of my sugar sources. Chocolate cake? Yes! White cake? Why waste calories on that crap? I don’t eat white cake unless it has orange juice, pulp or raspberries embedded in it. I’m fussy about my carbs. I used to go for quantity but my liver got compromised by my gluttony.

Yes I like fat but in very small amouts..3 to 5 fries with catsup. If it’s bagged fries, in dill pickle, or sour cream and vinegar flavours, three of either of those is quite enough…with a chocolate heart.

So, you can gobble enough sweet coleslaw, fried chicken, pie, cake and tarts to completely overwhelm your gall bladder with fat and your pancreas with sugar/sucrose.
If you get more fat than your body needs to carry fat soluble vitamins around the body so the cells are not deprived, you can screw up your cholesterol and overpower your liver as well as get your gall bladder removed because you are creating cholesterol that gets stuck in the gall bladder.

You cannot digest food without bile. Your gall bladder is not useless. Don’t wait until some clown in scrubs wants to cut it out and pitch it. Cleanse your liver before you get into trouble with stones stuck in the gall bladder. Another medical clown will prescribe acetaminophen to deal with the pain until the next goof ball gets you on the operating table.

You’re never going to be the same again after that little treasure has been pitched.

More about that another day.

So your Pancreas is working straight out. You’re running through a stress test every time you eat the whole package of cookies, gobble down way too much ice cream with gooey stuff in it or whatever other sins you love that are sweet, most of which are worse than others.

So you’re pouring out insulin and you get so much of it floating around that you wind up with Insulin Resistance where the insulin is damaging the cells and interior of the blood vessels.

Guess what the liver does when you damage the interior of the blood vessels. It goes into overdrive and pushes out LDL cholesterol which gets packed into the compromised places in the interior of the blood and oxygen and nutrient transport tunnels. Your heart and liver pack on fat and get so they can no longer function properly.

Stop beating yourself up about emotional eating and get your blood sugar under control. Lurching from one sugar high to the next, gobbling fat and sugar to rouse yourself from recurring energy crashes is not the way to go.

You are not the guilty party.
The only guilty parties here are the medical schools and their pitiful coverage of biochemistry. OHIP and Health Canada where are you? Demand better!
I’m tired of paying taxes to get a guilt trip put on myself. I want some biochemistry.
There are not enough biochemists in our healthcare system. I don’t even know where to find one. This is ridiculous. Medical dogma doesn’t work any better than any other hearsay does. We need some credible science that has not been pimped for the benefit of the drug companies.

Sure! I want comfort. Comfort from sugar highs and lows. The comfort of knowing that if I get sick someone will actually do the science needed to correct what I’ve screwed up so that I can do better when I understand what is happening.

What I don’t need is another guilt trip about emotional eating or more psycho blab.

Tylenol, You Say?

Doesn’t everyone know that Tylenol is no friend of the liver?

Apparently, not!

I’ve read information forms given me at the time of an ultrasound that suggested prescribing Tylenol for the pain encountered with a liver biopsy.

I was shocked.

If one’s liver enzymes are so out of whack that one is going for a biopsy, the last thing one needs is a prescription for Tylenol.

Come on people! Let’s think before we do harm on those prescription pads, or their digital replacements.

Then my doctor offered me a prescription for Tylenol after I fainted and hurt my leg. After I pointed out that I had cirrhosis or NAFLD, he gave me a prescription for codeine. I haven’t checked that out yet. I did take the codeine for a couple of weeks.

Now I go to a website on liver disease and the good doctor is recommending extra strength Tylenol? Hmmm! Now I’m experiencing a bit of doubt, but not enough to stop me from seeing what she has to say that works without nasty side effects. Even geniuses are still working on their theories. I for one am not about to wait around until they get everything right in order to appreciate and benefit from what they have clued into.

Dr. Melissa Palmer of www.liverdisease.com is knowledgeable, but I’m going to be checking everything that I might want to do that is on her site…not that I’m either infallible, or a doctor. She did point out not to mess around with Valerian as a sleep aid and she could be right.
I don’t use Valerian and if I don’t sleep at night, so what?! Other than my liver may wish I’d shut down during the early morning hours, so it could get some energy to maintain whatever function it still has, I have no problem with erratic sleeping.

Beware of Acetaminophen for your liver’s sake and research everything. FIRST. Before you take it. It’s true: timing can be everything.

Just don’t blame the doctor for what you didn’t do for your liver.