Binge Eating Disorder is being proposed by the American Psychiatric Association as a new diagnostic category for the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V that is due to come out in May of 2013. You might want to go check this one out. See if you fit the description. This process is important since ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Food Addiction Statistics?
Maybe food addiction statistics would be of interest to you? Well obesity statistics anyway. I am sure it does not come as news to you that obesity has been on the rise in the USA for 20 years now. I ran across this government website on U.S. obesity trends that make the situation very ...
Meal Replacement Diet For Food Addicts?
A meal replacement diet as a long-term solution for food addiction is probably not the best idea and it has some short-term possibilities and a place in the mix for some. I personally have not used shakes much preferring bars to shakes when I used meal replacements and I did not use these bars for ...
Dealing With Food Addiction And Zen?
In dealing with food addiction, many folks are in a hurry to get to a certain weight or to get away from the feelings and behavior that goes with being a food addict. I wonder if that works so well? Just a question to ponder. It is said in some circles "What you resist, persists" ...
Forgiveness In Food Addiction Recovery?
Forgiveness in food addiction recovery is essential I would think on many levels. I was watching my local PBS TV station last week and they ran an hour-long program on Dr. Fred Luskin's program at Stanford University called the Forgiveness Project. Now the folks featured in the program have had some seriously bad things ...
Control Food Addiction – Well Maybe!
To control food addiction it helps to be clear on what you are up against biologically. So be sure to read what I have written on biological factors ...just look under categories on the right column and you will find that category. Well, this last week I found more scientific evidence about why those of ...