Food Addiction – I Find Landmark Education
Finding the idea of food addiction helped a great deal to be sure since it took me to a whole new level. The next breakthrough for this food addict came two or three years later in the form of a unique personal growth program called The Forum. I had [...]
Food Addiction – I Find The Addiction Model
Food Addiction as a distinction came my way when next I went to work for a national company that specialized in alcohol treatment centers in general hospitals. I learned all about alcoholism and addictions—how alcoholism is a chronic and fatal disease with genetic, psychological, and spiritual components. I [...]
Food Addiction – Almost Lost It
Emotional Side Part 2
Food Addiction has emotional or psychological consequences thus in my last post titled Part 1 of “emotional side” I spoke about some of them and the work I did with a counselor. I also worked on things with the counselor having to do with my vocation [...]
Food Addiction – Henry Gets A Grip
On The Emotional Side Part 1
Food Addiction had me fooled in the beginning like it does many folks. I focused only on the physical or body aspects of losing weight. When I stopped taking the medications, I went into a “binge/starve” type of eating pattern not uncharacteristic of [...]
Food Addiction And Treatment
Enter Medications
I had no clue I had a food addiction when my journey began. I first began losing my excess weight when I was 23. I was sick and tired of feeling like a freak and feeling pretty depressed by my life. In 1970, there were few 5’5” people weighing over [...]
I was born with a food addiction but it did not show up until later. I was the son of an Air Force officer so we moved around a lot when I was growing up. My father’s idea of a diet was to not put ice cream on his apple pie—he was always in shape [...]
Food Addiction has led me to some interesting conversations with people I know. When they find out I once weighed 325 pounds (now 162 – height 5’5”) they often want to know how I lost all that weight and kept it off for over 35 years. So here is the beginning of my “food addict” story! [...]