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A food addict just starting the road to recovery
Hello. My name is Amz and I'm a food addict. It took me a long time to understand this and realize I'm not a person who can eat in moderation without mindful effort. I have been successful in weight loss in the past, but my emotional eating habit has worsened substantially over the last two years. I do not have people in…
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I am a recovered food addict. I'll help anyone I can.
I lost 140 pounds after 25 years of miserable obesity and weight control failure, and I've kept it off for 30 years. My work as a mental health counselor and behavior therapist with addicted people led me to insights and practices that helped me finally solve my weight and food addiction problem. It's been work, but no…
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Food addiction - as powerful as any drug
I have recently started using MFP again. It's helping me learn portions most importantly. I eat when Im happy, excited, sad, lost and lonely, stressed... I feed people to show love even. For a long time I have watched my weight increase to the point that I after the births of my two daughters I surpassed my full term…
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Stress eating, binge eating
I'm in my third year of medical school, I'm always tired, my husband has panic attacks, I always have something on my mind...and I'll randomly go to the store and buy a bunch of junk food...how can I hold myself more accountable? My husband does the same thing and we both need help. I was hoping for a sponsor type…
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Binging
Well for a long time I starved myself probably from 7th grade to 11th grade but i realized even at 103 lbs i was called fat and i was hungry. I would binge eat when nobody else was around bc i thought that if somebody saw me eat then i was really be called fat. So there was about a 30 minute window between when i got off…
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Hello
Hi everyone, I have a bad food addiction and I can't control it. I just found this group and I'm looking forward to talking about my addiction with other people who understand how I feel. I over eat all the time. My portions are huge, when I do try portion control I am not satisfied and I go on eating all night long. I…
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Need accountability
I have been on a crazy roller coaster of eating since just after Thanksgiving. After losing 135lbs following gastric bypass, I have food old habits coming back. I don't binge in the since that I used to but I eat until I know I am full and then purge because the type of food I am eating is wrong. I have gotten off my…
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Getting ready for breaking the habit.
Hey everybody, my name is Alex and I'm also a food addict... I've been reading a lot about it and I definitely got to the conclusion I can't eat sugars, wheat or flour ever again. I'm really scared about what's about to come. I'm setting a date, it might be this friday or next monday. But I'll stop eating those things…
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Hey Ya’ll – Let’s get this party started!!
We are all here for the same reason – we have a food addiction! We just cant seem to get enough of the yummy stuff – so what do we do about it? I have struggled with food all of my life – I would go through a good period where I would be able to follow an eating plan and then go through periods (like now) that I can’t seem…
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what topics would people be interested in
So, I have been learning about my food addiction for the last year and a half. I know that for me, right now, I am needing support for how to deal with relapse. I had lost 113 lbs after changing my eating habits to remove white flour, processed foods, added sugars, etc., and to incorporate small amounts of whole grains and…
