Tag: abstinence
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Why A Food Plan Matters
If you’re new to food addiction recovery, the idea of having a food plan may sound restrictive, especially if you’ve spent years trying one diet after another. But what if structure around food isn’t another set of rules designed to control you? What if it’s more like guardrails on a steep road, giving you something…
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Food Addiction Recovery Is Not A Diet
A Diet Is Temporary, Recovery Is A Lifestyle If you have spent years dieting, you probably know what it feels like to believe that the next plan is finally going to be “the one” that changes everything. Maybe you have started out on a Monday morning or the first of the month, with a brand…
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Food Addiction Recovery: How to Handle Seasonal Food Triggers
Instead of immediately asking ourselves, “How can I make this old food abstinent?” we can instead, pause, and ask, “What is it about this season that I want to experience again, and how can I experience it in recovery?”
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September Is Where Summer and Autumn Meet
Why “The Last Summer Cookout” Can Be A Trigger. Food addiction does not take a holiday weekend off, and seasonal celebrations do not suddenly make compulsive eating safe. In fact, the combination of abundant food, relaxed schedules, social expectations, nostalgia, and the feeling that summer is ending can create a perfect storm for someone who…
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The Slippery Slope of Artificial Sweeteners
Recovery didn’t just remove sugar from my plate. It removed the obsession from my mind.
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Groundhog Day And Food Addiction Recovery
Groundhog Day. Same ritual each year. Same question every time. Same hope that this time will be different. And honestly? If you have ever lived with food addiction, that whole scenario probably feels very familiar.
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Old Thoughts, New Freedom
Recovery is not about becoming someone who never things about food. It’s about becoming someone who doesn’t lose themselves to those thoughts anymore. So the next time a familiar whisper shows up, like “I should get a snack”, smile a little. That’s just your past knocking on a door you don’t live behind anymore.
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The Hidden Battle of Food Addiction
For many of us, food was never just food. It was comfort after a long day, the way we celebrated, the way we soothed pain, the thing we thought about constantly, perhaps food was our love language – and then food became the one thing we couldn’t seem to control.