Disorganized Eating

alienrite

I heard a term which refocused my outlook on my diet and wanted to write it down so I don't forget the flood of thought it brought out. "Disorganized Eating" (not eating disorder) We are defined significantly by what we eat. So much of my life, I have been disordered in my eating and food choices. It is no wonder why I gained weight and felt entirely out of control of how my body was reacting. If I conducted the rest of my life like I ate or made food choices, I would have been unemployable and my home and life a disaster. I consumed everything my whim wanted and was so susceptible to engineered foods which preyed on my pleasure center much like crack-cocaine. I was tossed about the rough seas of the food world without a sail or paddle to steer. Food logging has provided me the simple tool to begin to organize my eating so now my food choices are organized and with purpose. I still occasionally eat casually, like tossing clothes on the floor, but I have a system where I clean up or reconcile at the end of the day or, at worst, week. 85+% of my food choices are purposeful and my body is starting to reflect this focus. I am becoming an organized eater and from being organization, I have control over my body.

It really puts into perspective why I had such good success years ago when I did the Zone Diet. It wasn't so much that the diet was "magic" or unique in making me lose weight but that it gave me structure and focus and started teaching me how to organize my eating and food choices. My success was short lived because I learned how to become disorganized and still "follow" the Zone Diet for a short period of time until my disorganization consumed the value of the Zone Diet structure and I failed. It is like following perfect form in weight lifting or any activity; lose the form and lose the results and sometimes even injure yourself.

I don't know if any of this make sense outside of my own head but as a note to my future self…if I find myself lost and no longer able to control my body and weight, it isn't the failure of whatever program I am following but me simply losing my focus on form and organization. Balance and structure is how greatness is built brick by brick and day by day. Organized eating, so simple, it almost seems like magic.

alienrite

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