I am safe!

Reading a very interesting article today about weight loss and how our mind perceives lack or starvation, either mental or physical, as a direct attack on our feelings of safety.
This is an old mechanism of our primordial brain that translates all occurances in our life using our fight or flight response.
Do I run from this or do I stay?
Do I have to fight or am I ok?
This article was saying thta sometimes our bodies respond to stresses of any kind by keeping us fat to improve our feelings of safety.
We actually put on weight as a protective mechanism to save our bodies - yet our bodies really require us to be thin so that we can have the speed to "run" from that which can be destructive and harm us.
When we feel threatened by the "lack of" ,whether that is a material thing, such as money or empotional thing, such as love, we, on a very basic level feel unsafe - so we head to the fridge to try and fix it with something that we have a lot of, which is food. Some of us may go shopping or gamble or drink.
We try and balance those feelings of "lack" out with filling up on "more".
So if you have a problem with food - ask yourself, what am I feeling? That I am lacking or do I feel safe......
you may find an answer to that question and you will not have to reach for that extra biscuit after all.