The food frenzy?
I’ve used the term the “food frenzy” for decades because I want to include everyone who is pain in her/his relationship to food, eating, and weight. If you have experienced it, you likely know what I mean by the “food frenzy”.
The food frenzy can include overeating, trying not to overeat, under eating, binging, purging, starving, restricting, obsessing about eating, hiding food, lying about food, compulsive exercise, any compulsive food activity, truly any food behavior that evokes shame.
Everything on my addiction page applies to food. Some people are literally addicted to food, actually a lot of people. Forty percent of Americans are obese and some of them are addicted to food. They (maybe you) can’t stop.
I talk about “Food Dependency” rather than eating disorders because I think it is important to highlight the substance. It parallels Chemical Dependency. Exactly.
This is disease that is physical, emotional, and spiritual in etiology and progression, and so must be the solution.
A top priority is to involve to health professionals who can test and examine the underlying physiological imbalances that have fueled the disease.
Sugar consumption, blood sugar instability, gluten intolerance, digestive disorders, hormone and neurotransmitter disruption, food allergy, gut infections, and the American diet are just some of the possible causes and consequences.
It is about the food, until it is not about the food. An appropriate, individualized, nutritional plan of eating is a beginning that requires a robust emotional and spiritual support system.
This is done a day at a time. Why not begin today?
The food frenzy can include overeating, trying not to overeat, under eating, binging, purging, starving, restricting, obsessing about eating, hiding food, lying about food, compulsive exercise, any compulsive food activity, truly any food behavior that evokes shame.
Everything on my addiction page applies to food. Some people are literally addicted to food, actually a lot of people. Forty percent of Americans are obese and some of them are addicted to food. They (maybe you) can’t stop.
I talk about “Food Dependency” rather than eating disorders because I think it is important to highlight the substance. It parallels Chemical Dependency. Exactly.
This is disease that is physical, emotional, and spiritual in etiology and progression, and so must be the solution.
A top priority is to involve to health professionals who can test and examine the underlying physiological imbalances that have fueled the disease.
Sugar consumption, blood sugar instability, gluten intolerance, digestive disorders, hormone and neurotransmitter disruption, food allergy, gut infections, and the American diet are just some of the possible causes and consequences.
It is about the food, until it is not about the food. An appropriate, individualized, nutritional plan of eating is a beginning that requires a robust emotional and spiritual support system.
This is done a day at a time. Why not begin today?
The recording link above is vintage (1986) and was originally titled: The Food Frenzy: Eating Sober in Recovery. I still agree with most of it. I include it here, because all these years later, people still call me out of the blue to tell me that they have found it helpful.
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