Food Addiction Recovery – #25
In Food Addiction calories do count even though some fad diets said otherwise. When counting calories, seek the advice of an expert. Want to know how much you should cut back in terms of calories to lose some weight? A pound of fat on your body represents 3500 calories. If you [...]
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Food Addiction Recovery – #25
Food Addiction Recovery – #24
Food Addiction Recovery – #24
Food addiction recovery usually means once you have learned about calories, protein, carbohydrates and fats that you figure out how many calories are right for you. Have you ever wondered how many calories you need per day? The answer is “it depends.” It depends on your sex, current weight, desired weight, [...]
Food Addiction Recovery – #23
Food Addiction Recovery – #23
People with food addiction really benefit from leaning about the basic 3 types of foods – protein, carbohydrates and most importantly fats. You might want to buy a booklet with fat grams in addition to calories listed for foods if you go to restaurants. If you go to fast food outlets [...]
Food Addiction Recovery – #22
Food Addiction Recovery – #22
With food addiction it might be good to throw out the scale. Well that is a little drastic and some might want to actually throw out the scale. I have not. This is one “number” tip that actually involves ignoring numbers to some extent. Weigh yourself no more than once per [...]
Food Addiction Recovery – #21
Food Addiction Recovery – #21
Food addiction recovery has required me to learn to be a critical shopper in the supermarket. I learn how to read the labels for nutritional content, especially calories, fat grams and sugar. Nowadays, nearly everything has a standardized label, so it’s pretty easy to compare between items and brands. Even if [...]
Food Addiction Recovery – #20
Food Addiction Recovery – #20
In food addiction recovery many of us need to learn to deal with having low frustration tolerance (LFT). In short tolerate frustration and some pain. You will get frustrated. LFT is not going to work for you if you plan to overcome being a food addict. So how do you build [...]
Food Addiction Recovery – #19
Food Addiction Recovery – #19
Food addiction cravings and urges was the topic of my last post. This is more on that topic. It will probably take from a few weeks to a few months for many of your cravings and urges to go away or be so low in power that they are not a [...]
Food Addiction Recovery – #18
Food Addiction Recovery – #18
With food addiction dealing with cravings and urges is a big challenge. One of the things you may need to be aware of as a food addict is that social pressure can create eating triggers. Because you are use to socializing with food, when you find yourself in a social [...]
Food Addiction Recovery – #17
Food Addiction Recovery – #17
Even with a food addiction life is still pretty good though it is unfair. The flip side of the last approach to recovery —not to wallow in life’s unfairness—is to revel in all the good things you do have in life and not get bogged down in the downsides of [...]
Food Addiction Recovery – #16
Food Addiction Recovery – #16
Food Addiction or not one thing is very clear to me life is not fair. Maybe life should be fair. At least, that is what I used to think and what I was raised to believe. I know now that life is inherently unfair. Genetics alone make this so. While it [...]