Tag: compulsive eating
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Why Can’t I Stop Eating?
What if the question isn’t “why can’t I stop eating?”, but instead, “what am I trying to soothe, escape, or survive when I turn to food?”
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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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Step Three in Food Addiction Recovery
Step Three is the step where recovery stops being about managing food perfectly and starts being about living spiritually.
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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…