by Maria's Last Diet
Ruthie ate and ate as a response to many different cues.
She wasn't born with it, it wasn't innate. At one point in her life, the eating was a means to an end. Then it became an end in itself and it no longer needed the original reason.
You see, habits, as they become exercised to the point of perfection do not require an ever increasing driving force.
The driving force is actually strongest when you are just learning. A habit in the making has the most driving power. Once perfected, as in eating to help you negotiate the ups and downs of life, it no longer needs all that power because it becomes automatic.
For Ruthie (and maybe for you too) it was not the hunger that persisted, but the rhythms of that hunger, everything that went along with it. It took on a life of its own.
by Maria's Last Diet
Ruthie ate and ate as a response to many different cues.
She wasn't born with it, it wasn't innate. At one point in her life, the eating was a means to an end. Then it became an end in itself and it no longer needed the original reason.
You see, habits, as they become exercised to the point of perfection do not require an ever increasing driving force.
The driving force is actually strongest when you are just learning. A habit in the making has the most driving power. Once perfected, as in eating to help you negotiate the ups and downs of life, it no longer needs all that power because it becomes automatic.
For Ruthie (and maybe for you too) it was not the hunger that persisted, but the rhythms of that hunger, everything that went along with it. It took on a life of its own.