Category: abstinent tools
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The Pink Cloud In Food Addiction Recovery
The “pink cloud” is a term borrowed from addiction recovery circles, describing the euphoric state that often comes in early sobriety – or in our case, early food abstinence. It’s the high that comes from finally breaking free from the obsession. Your body detoxes from sugar and flour, your mind clears, and for the first…
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Finding Balance: Weighing Yourself in Recovery
Recovery asks us to trade control for surrender, obsession for balance, and fear for honesty. So how does that translate when it comes to stepping on the scale? Can we use the scale without letting it use us?
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What I Eat In A Day As A Food Addict In Recovery
In this post, I’m sharing what I eat in a typical day as someone living in abstinent recovery – not as a diet, but as my lifestyle – a daily rhythm that keeps me grounded, clear-minded, and connected to my Higher Power (and my hunger cues). This is not about perfection, or dieting – this…
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Understanding Food Noise: The Silent Struggle In Food Addiction
If you’ve ever tried to “just eat normally” and couldn’t, you know exactly what food noise is. It’s that non-stop chatter in your head about food – what you’ll eat next, what you shouldn’t eat, what you “should” eat, what you already ate, and how to hide it. A true food addict thinks about food…