Carbohydrate addiction - for real?
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I'm unable to watch it now, but I can definitely attest to its truth. I was addicted to carbs for more years than I care to admit...and felt awful, physically and mentally. Now, I am finally in a healthy place and I feel so much better and so many things are going so much better for me, health-wise. I'll never return to that horrendous way of living again.
Thank you for sharing, I can't wait to watch the series when I get home!2 -
Goddess0921 wrote: »I'm unable to watch it now, but I can definitely attest to its truth. I was addicted to carbs for more years than I care to admit...and felt awful, physically and mentally. Now, I am finally in a healthy place and I feel so much better and so many things are going so much better for me, health-wise. I'll never return to that horrendous way of living again.
Thank you for sharing, I can't wait to watch the series when I get home!
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Goddess0921 wrote: »I'm unable to watch it now, but I can definitely attest to its truth. I was addicted to carbs for more years than I care to admit...and felt awful, physically and mentally. Now, I am finally in a healthy place and I feel so much better and so many things are going so much better for me, health-wise. I'll never return to that horrendous way of living again.
Thank you for sharing, I can't wait to watch the series when I get home!
Let us know what you think after you've seen it? Thx.
Wow. She was great. So much of what she said really hit home for me and sounded like a bit of history in my life.
I have always said that I had a food addiction, but never narrowed it down to a carbohydrate addiction, specifically. Her mention of a Pavlovian response to food and carbs is really spot on. There are always certain behaviors and activities that had to be accompanied with food and that food always HAD to be carbs. I am already aware of dopamine/seratonin issues in my brain, but never thought to relate them to food in the way she does. That was truly eye-opening.
I've "accepted that I can't eat just one" of anything with carbohydrates...chips, breads, potatoes, ice cream, etc. And no longer try...but hearing her say to forgive yourself for your past failures made me cry...because I'm just not there yet.
But, hopefully I have broken the cycle and have found the support I need here.
I've saved her videos to watch again, and I plan to look up the 60 Minutes episode with Nora Volkow that was mentioned....I think that will be VERY interesting.
Thank you, again, so much for sharing!7 -
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Back in 2013, I realized some months after going lchf that whenever anyone in the office opens up snack foods bought at the convenience store that are wrapped in crinkly plastic, I start to salivate.... Just the unwrapping sound makes me start craving junk food. I still have that response but have learned to ignore it. I sip water or coffee instead.Goddess0921 wrote: »Her mention of a Pavlovian response to food and carbs is really spot on.6 -
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Back in 2013, I realized some months after going lchf that whenever anyone in the office opens up snack foods bought at the convenience store that are wrapped in crinkly plastic, I start to salivate.... Just the unwrapping sound makes me start craving junk food. I still have that response but have learned to ignore it. I sip water or coffee instead.Goddess0921 wrote: »Her mention of a Pavlovian response to food and carbs is really spot on.
I get that in pastry shops all the time, my husband buys his daily bread there, lately I try to just wait outside in the fresh air, but the smell still wafts out whenever someone opens the door.
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KnitOrMiss wrote: »It's frustrating when your closest support is someone who believe that addiction is simply a lack of willpower.
I haven't had a specific conversation about this with my DH but I feel like he'd be the same way... I just don't bring up any of this stuff to him really. Over the years, any time I try to talk about anything he makes some snarky remark like "oh ok doctor" and if I'm reading something online he asks if I'm "butter blogging".
He seems to forget I cook his food and can lick everything just for kicks!
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Forget the food licking, Sunny_Bunny, you kiss him don't you, lol. I've found the threat of a snot booger can do wonders, bwahahaha!4
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it is so an addiction. it was so much harder for me to give up sugar and white flour then it was to quit smoking!! I find it I jave the smallest taste of it it sends me searching for a week till I can get it under control again!!3
