We are all inherently driven to eat more than we need.

Make what we need more satiating.

I hear so regularly, I have no control, a lack of discipline, an inability to abstain from my desire to eat.

All statements suggestive of being at mercy to physiological (I won’t go in to psychological in the scope of these words) urges with little to no ability to move ahead of the instinctual behaviour, because yes, of course, your evolutionary biology dictates that survival is inherently driven by sustaining health and there-for survival through sustenance, though, sustaining health is absolutely not the concern in a place of abundance leading people to internalise the guilt and shame that precedes the indulgence of plenty, driving it underground not voicing and sharing with many outside of a professional capacity that ‘they are the only one that feels this way’.

When I am able to level the emotion with logic by bringing to the forefront other physiological urges that have no negative connotations, such as the pervasive desire to breathe or the mechanisms unable to quell the desperation to urinate, nobody feels negatively about this, negating the oppressive embarrassment of a strong appetite.

The above does feel somewhat damning if we are to leave it there because the body is sentient whether we like it or not , though this is one side of a coin, our bodily functions are quelled, softened, managed and overridden every day, using a toilet for one instead of standing in the street urinating because the urge become overwhelming, we would find a bathroom or an appropriate hedge or ditch , dog walkers….. so when it comes to impulsively eating an abundance of calories from a source you wont be proud of because your lunch meeting ran over and has left you floundering toward deliciousness, recognise, using the breathe we can control as a tool in this scenario to put some space between you and your actions to take a minute to not urinate in the street, instead find the nearest green grocer , pick a punnet and walk on home plucking your grapes and not peeing in your suit to enjoy that meal that will sustain you whilst making you feel quietly proud.