A food addiction solution to consider or maybe begin with or deepen recovery with can be water only fasting for some. If you have not thought about that process as an option, I would not recommend you do it yourself at home. I would recommend that you find a qualified health professional if you are ...
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In my food addiction recovery program I don’t do everything I know to do that will be good for me. I still do things that are not really the best in healthy eating. Are you surprised? I hope not. One of the beliefs or rules I live by is “progress, not perfection” and I sure ...
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As a food addict who is committed to recovery for over 35 years now, I keep reading books. Lately I have been inspired by my reading of the book Eat What You Love – Love What you Eat by Michelle May, M.D. In her new book (the one I would buy not an older book ...
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Emotional eating can be dealt with of course. If you want to learn some in depth ways to do so I would suggest Eat What you Love – Love What You Eat by Michelle May, MD that I just started reading recently. I am only on page 147 of 405 this week, which completes Part ...
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As a compulsive overeater myself I have discovered I can gain weight on food that is generally considered good for you like fruits, veggies, grains, with no sugar, white flour or fried foods in my diet. Why? Because I would not be paying close enough attention to portion control and I would be eating all ...
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How to stop binge eating is a very long subject of course. You might want to look at my Categories section in the right column of this blog and read the 50 ways that I have used for 35 years to remain in recovery. After all one can write a book on this subject and ...
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One food addict called me recently and in the course of the conversation asked me if I “weighed and measured” my food. I said reflexively no I did not since I honestly did not think of myself as someone who weighed and measured my food. Now I know where she was coming from since there ...
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Food addiction is one of my areas of expertise so of course I read plenty of books on the topic over the last 35 years in recovery. Usually I am not called by one of the authors as I was last week when I published my opinions on the book Am I Hungry? by ...
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A food addiction recovery book I think one must have and by that I mean if you could only have one book on the subject what would it be it would be this one The Rules of “Normal” Eating by Karen R. Koenig, SICSW, M.ED. Stop reading now and just buy this book ...
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