What characterizes a food addiction?
Simply put, you no longer feel that you have the choice to stop eating. The foods seems stronger than you. The food also gives you a false sense of pleasure; pleasure that inevitably turns into pain.
ONE QUESTION QUIZ:
Does this describe your relationship with food?
Yes or No?
Please comment below! What's your 'food relationship' like?
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How to STOP Eating!
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This tasty tidbit was based on Eckhart Tolle's definition of addiction from the book, The Power of Now.
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Janice
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Hi, Janice -- You're spot on here. As someone who's lived without practicing food addiction for over twenty years (and kept off sixty pounds -- I think the same amount as you), I remember very well that feeling of hopelessness. But there is hope. To any of your readers who are struggling: there is a way out. Thanks for helping people find it. -- Victoria
Janice,
I lost over 100 pounds. But, the last few pounds go up and down. When someone talks about how good I look I eat to gain back the weight. I also know that when a guy talks to me, I try not to talk to that person again or don't be in the same social setting.
I eat at night and then have nightmare. I eat sweets during the day.
I am full but still eat. Fear is part of the problem. I hope that I will be able to get and keep off the 25 pounds that have gone up and down for the last 5 years.
Thanks.
i cannot stop eating. i know i have a problem. i don't know how to solve it. or even begin to solve it. i'm so full of dispair and shame, it physically hurts at times. i'm afraid.
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