Our emotions are easily associated with certain foods, and this knowledge is wired into our subconscious mind. For example, you can associate the word 'Sunday roast' with pleasant memories of food and relationships with family, and a sense of warmth that is activated. As a result, eat Sunday roast will transport you back to that state of memory, and will trigger the same pleasurable feelings you get from family ties.
Similarly, the negative associations with food can also be wired into your subconscious mind. If your family uses in a row and come out in installments, the same Sunday roast can be something you choose to avoid, because it activates the pain and feelings of sadness or anxiety.
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Those who overeat have learned to eat more than they need results in consequences that are associated with pleasure. In childhood, these positive associations would have included rewards such as praise, attention, love, and so on, associated with the 'eating up', as' good 'and' eat a nice'.
They may also have been motivated by a desire not to experience the painful conditions, such as a fine, reprimand, parental anger, forced diet, lack of care or withdrawal of love, if they neglected to eat all the food on the plate.
While the food overeaters may be equally pleased, for the second group a diet, food equals pain. As children we begin to associate food with attention from the time we were born. All children crave attention, in whatever form it takes. Some kids do when they do not want to eat, Mom and Dad give them loads of attention. This could be negative attention, but attention is all the same. They then realized that they can control the level of attention given depending on what and how to eat.
These children feel powerful when they abstain from food, and the association was created to be used later in life whenever they feel less powerful than you would like to feel.
They are not sure why the refrain makes them feel stronger, especially if the parents have long ceased to take interest, but the old association is maintained. It is possible that those with a tendency to extreme dieting or anorexia are therefore learned associate hunger with the supervision and control with pleasure.