What causes food addiction is legion of course. In some ways the causes are not as important as what are you going to do about it. Recovery for a food addict is in many ways a mind game. It is about taking responsibility for your actions and dealing with the biology that you have been ...
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Food Addiction and Treatment
Food addiction and treatment of it has been a debatable topic among professionals for a couple of decades or so now. Generally, the debate has been between those who were “psychologically” minded in their treatment approach and those who adapted the “addictions model” and ran with that treatment approach. I ran across this article this ...
Give Food Addiction To God?
Give food addiction to God is an approach to recovery used by many folks who are using the addiction model to support their recovery as a food addict. I would be the last person to tell them this is a bad approach or a wrong approach. There is another large group of folks who don’t ...
Some Help For Food Addiction
Help for food addiction is indeed one of my areas of expertise of course. This week I received a call from someone who was asking me what I have done to achieve my current level of recovery. She asked if I weighted and measured my food like some self-help support programs recommend. I said no ...
Food Addiction Facts
Food addiction facts are certainly not all in yet. It might take another few decades to fully understand all the facts that lead to compulsive overeating. Things are moving on though in psychological circles on what to do now to help folks with these types of problems. In recent years, the American Psychiatric Association has ...
A Food Addict Should Pay More?
Food addicts naturally are generally obese at least before they are in recovery. This means they cost us all a lot more money. How? Well in the costs of health care for one. Thus some are saying we should charge those who are obese more for health insurance. Others are saying there should be weight ...
Dealing With Food Addiction Is Hard?
Dealing with food addiction can be hard that is for sure at least at times. At other times, it can be easy. That said terms like hard and easy are things we make up in our minds. There is no such thing as “is hard” or “is easy” in the abstract. Therefore, we bring “hard” ...
Food Addiction Help In Positive Thinking?
Can food addiction help be found in positive thinking? Well, maybe to a point. Now, with full self-disclosure I must admit some have accused me of being a pessimist. Some of whom were born optimist and some not so. I will admit to the worst case scenario being the first thing that comes up in ...
Overcoming Food Addiction Rules?
Overcoming food addiction is certainly not easy I know that for sure. I often tell my wife I could be over 300 pounds easy if I did not follow my rules. The key term here being my rules. This thought came up today as I was looking over the book by Karen R. Koenig titled ...
What Causes Food Addiction?
What causes food addiction is not liable to be solved any time soon. With over 400 genes involved biologically, the psychological issues and the social issues as well I think it will take a few hundred years to answer this question. I have written about causes a lot in this blog that is for sure. ...