i AM A FOOD ADDICT ARE YOU?

I am not a food addict, but I understand why many people are. Congratulations for recognising this and taking steps to get this chunky monkey off your back!

You can do it!

I definitely am. I struggle so much with "the first bite". I think I want to be able to indulge as others do, but have to accept my triggers and protect myself from them. So that it what I'll add, know your triggers.

4. Keep foods that are my weakness out of my pantry... PERIOD!!

I confess I am a food addict!!! remember to take baby steps!!

I am a food addict also. I could be full and I will still eat whatever is in the house because it tastes good and makes me feel good for the moment. Then I feel like crap emotionally and physically after I eat it. I have done so well for the most part of the 100 days I have been on MFP, but I will have a bad week here and there. Yes, not a bad day, but a bad WEEK! I need to stop those "pig out weeks"!

YES!!!!! and mostly refined carbs would do it...
So far i feel free for the first time in my life...i hit 205 on June 1 and was tired all the time. I ran into someone at the train station and she told me she had just lost 25Lbs w acupressure, i called that very day and got my little pellets behind my ears, ...this is June 2, the diet they gave me was more like a detox type of thing...anyway i stuck with it for 12 days and lost 10lbs ( i cheated a couple of times) , Now I got off myself because i started reading all kinds of things about Chinese medicine and this opened my mind and my life to make life changes..i had not felt so physically apt after that cleanse...No i am continuing on my own and applying pressure points to control my hunger and staying away from all refined carbs, and lost another 3 lbs in the past week.
I have been reading this book..."the power of metabolism" by Frank Suarez who was a food addict his whole life and has been able to win..this book explains every single function of the way food is processed for a food addict ...
I am starting a new life and i am not counting carbs or calories...just applying the principles this guy says.
In my experience and after trying every diet in the market, every pill available ...i realize than freeing my mind from thinking about food has been an answer...i dont want to spend my life counting and measuring...that is too much work, is a slavery!!!

I am a food addict! The love/hate relationship with food drives me nuts!

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Hi- I am a food Addict and an Over Eater!!

Pretty much if it's bad for me I like it and if I tell myself I shouldn't eat something for diet purposes then I only crave it more. It's SOOO HARD to try to change this life long addiction..... I'm in my 20s learning to or making myself like and eat vegetables and fruits....and portion distortion is a huge problem too!! So portion control is another battle!

It's not like smoking cigarettes.....and quitting all together...

People have to eat to live.....I can't just quit eating.... so the struggle continues....EVERY day.

I am a food addict and bored eater. When stressed or upset I cannot eat but definately I tend to find myself eating in a dazed coma. I tell myself no and then the last minute there I am in the drive thru. Food is like a drug, it is addicting and one can only give it time.

Make sure you take accountability of what you are feeding your body, and not eating off of emotions. I tend to overeat and stuff myself in hopes that I will feel better.

I am a food addict and miserable. I try so hard to control my eating but most times find myself eating all the wrong foods. i wish I had a stronger will power. My life is controlled by food. I am going to attemp something different by placing a colourful rubber band on my left wrist so each time i put something in my mouth I will pull at it to remind myself either about portion size or what i am actually putting into my mouth. I need to do this for me my health depends on it.

Hi everyone. I'm new to the site but food addiction is something that is all too familiar to me. Two things I can tell you from experience. Most of us food addicts are addicted to carbs & sugar. #1 Stay away from grains, starches, and sugar, period. I know, "whole grains are good for you", right. Potatoes have a lot of vitamins, right? Horse pookey! They convert almost instantly to glucose in your system. They do things to your blood sugar (can you spell INSULIN SPIKE?) that just make you want more. Beans? Not so good either. #2. Plan your daily menu, calculate it within your daily calorie goal, and then DON'T DEVIATE FROM IT!. We need structure in our new WOE (way of eating). And when you fall off the wagon, get back on. Just because you ate one Oreo doesn't mean that just because slipped you are now allowed to finish the bag. "I already blew it today, so why not?" If you're like me you have found an empty bag of cookies or chips in your lap while you watched TV and had no idea how it got there, right? Plan each day. The plan works --- follow the plan. Good luck to all of us.