How to improve your relationship with food
The Psychology Sisters
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How Food Shapes Our Relationship With Food
When we eat food our reward system is activated and a really good feel good neurotransmitical dopamine is really a stove mean is a really good feeling chemical. Certain foods particularly those higher in sugars and fat our brain loves and it perceives that as a reward which triggers the release of dopamine. For some of us we turn to food as a way to increase our dopamine so often disordered eating behaviors are much less to do with food and body image and rather a way of just coping with our external worlds Ames you mentioned something earlier about control and I really wanted to chat about this because a lot of our eating behaviors can act as a moderator for control essentially when the world around us feels really out of
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