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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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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posted April 16, 2009 at 8:25 pm
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
posted April 19, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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.
posted April 29, 2009 at 2:48 am
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.
posted January 4, 2010 at 8:42 am
Yes, dear Janice, the Christmas cookies and treats really got a hold of me this past December! ARG.. But I am back on track (for the millionth time) I am NOT deleting your news letters, but reading them again..I have kept off 40 of my 60 pounds,none the less I want to loose some more.First the 20 pounds of cookies and treats on my butt really have to go and then I have to loose another 50 to look like I would like. And yes, I do have a gym membership and the workout clothes are in the car… now I just have to stop there more often!.. I have been asked to be Matron Of Honor at a friend’s wedding in 2011- I will turn 60 that year and plan to be the best looking 60 year old there!
Thanks for being there!