Category Archives: Tips, Techniques and Solutions

Michael Prager – Fat Boy Thin Man

I was surfing the net a few months ago looking around at what folks are writing in the food addiction field and ran across some writing by Michael Prager.  Michael seemed to have been through a lot that eventually led him to food addiction recovery.  He is about to publish his book now.  He ...

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Find Food Addiction Help From A Power Plate

If you want food addiction help then get with the Power Plate.  No, I don't mean some exercise machine I mean the new "Food Pyramid" recommended by the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine (PCRM) just recently.  You can view the new design that looks like a dinner plate at the PCRM website complete ...

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Stop Food Addiction Even On A Cruise?

To stop food addiction even on a cruise all you need to do is go to Michelle May M.D.'s blog and read all about it!  Hey, what could be better than that!  I take her newsletter and she wrote up this nice "how to" in the newsletter and it is posted on her blog.  ...

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Food Addict – More Info on Fasting As A Solution

As a food addict psychotherapist, myself I always need to keep on top of what is happening of course.  I have written a couple of times about fasting.  Also about "TrueNorth Health" that offers residential water fasting that is scientifically based and staffed by a multidisciplinary team.  I also have written before about

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Food Addiction Enabling Part of the Problem/Solution?

Food addiction enabling is indeed something that needs to be looked at in our world today.  Now I have not seen any of those shows were folks who are so morbidly obese they can't leave the house in recent months.  I was reminded about this type of a person by reading a blog post by ...

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Food Addicts Need The Anderson Method?

As a recovering food addict and professional in the field of mental health, I keep myself reading, reading and reading.  Sometimes I have to tell myself to stop buying books until I have gotten the pile to read down a few notches.  Not an easy thing to do - stop buying books to read.  Now, ...

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Fitness Through Fasting – A Way?

I ran across a post by someone on the Fitness Through Fasting website.  Well, I am the skeptical type and at the same time, I am not opposed to fasting - totally.  It has a place in the solution as I have written before.  That said I would want orthodox medical folks with ...

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New Food Addiction Resource – Food For Life TV

I am always looking for new food addiction resources and ran across this one last week.  I thought I would share it with you.  It is called Food For Life TV.   This week's video is "How Chocolate Can Heal A Broken Heart" - it is not what you think!  They have tons of ...

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Overweight Food Addicts Experience Fat Discrimination?

Overweight food addicts in the UK seem to be experiencing discrimination according to the Manchester Evening News.   According to the article over a quarter of the folks in Manchester are obese...which is higher than the national average.  One recovering person reports in the article that he had to deal with "stares, nudges, and outright ...

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How To Fight Food Addiction Then Use VLCD?

Learning how to fight food addiction seems to me to be a lifelong issue.  At least that has been my experience over my 35 plus years of recovery.  One option that you might consider especially in the beginning is a very low calorie diet (VLCD).  In addition, this strategy could be used in middle and ...

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