 welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. I want to talk to you a little bit about food and what we use it for. For a lot of my life I used food for entertainment, for comfort, for companionship, just to keep me going like emotionally. I mean for the most part because when I learned to do that when I was very young, because when I was young little, I used food because I was alone a lot. I was alone a lot because my mother worked and my brother and sister were a lot older than me and they were six years older than me so they were pretty much as I was growing up out of the house. My sister left when she was 17, my brother left when he was 17 and I was alone so and my mother had to work so what was I going to do? When I couldn't be outside playing with my friends, I was a latchkey kid and you know if it wasn't the weekend and I was playing with my cousins or my friends or whatever I was at home and I would sit there and eat and it was my companionship and I really didn't realize that until I was a lot older and actually started thinking about why I was eating and the truth is as food is for nourishment it is designed to nourish our bodies and give us the energy that we need so that we can function and do the things that we have to do every day, do the things that we were called to do every day, take care of our families, that is what food is for. Now there are you know God did design it to be you know for us to enjoy it there's no reason we can't enjoy food but it's not supposed to be our emotional support and that is the biggest thing that most people that I talk to do. They might not realize that they're doing it but they're using it as emotional support, companionship and entertainment and the reason I know is because of some of the things that people say. People aren't willing to change their food choices because what will they do if they can't have the fried chicken? There have been many days I sat in front of my television set I'd order some chicken wings and some macaroni and cheese or fries or something from the local chicken joint and sit in front of the TV and watch a hallmark movie and I'd sit there and eat it and eat it and eat it and when it was done I'd want some more or I would want something sweet. My thing was I'd go and get that that dish and I'd also stop past the target and get one of single cupcakes that they sell in the bakery section because I don't want to buy a whole cake because if I buy a whole cake I might eat it and also I can feel better about myself because all I did was I bought one of the large cupcakes and not you know it's not too much you know just like bullying myself into believing that I was doing something good for myself when all actuality all I was doing was stuffing my emotions and it was about not feeling good enough feeling like people are gonna leave me abandon me or do something to me I don't know I mean I got I thought about it I could probably tell you all the things I thought but I was just trying to give you some examples and a lot of a lot of you all watching the video you're doing some of that stuff and you can't stop yourself you don't know how to stop and there is a way to stop you don't have to be stuck in the food jail because that's what it is a prison you wake up every day you're sick to death because of all the stuff you ate you don't want to give up the food because it has comforted you and made you feel better for the time being as far as your emotional state but in all actuality it's still making you depressed and it's making you you know think negative thoughts and keeping you stuck in your life and you can't do the things that you were called to do and that's a prison it's not a prison that's not what we're supposed to live god didn't intend for us to live in a food prison so if that's you reach out to me get yourself a free consultation with me and talk to me because I can talk talk to you about that kind of stuff so yeah I know what it's like it's not fun to be in a food jail a food jail is no fun all right y'all thanks so much for watching and I will talk to you all soon take care