maillemaker Member

Great reply, and congratulations on staying sober!

You goals can probably be achieved without spending any money at all. You can use body weight only exercises to a great extent. Situps, pushups, lunges, and more can all be done with no fitness equipment. If you want, kettlebells are good as was pointed out and you can do a whole lot of exercises with dumbells also. Check…

Welp, that's one behavioral problem I don't have to worry about! :)

I would submit to you that this most definitely is withdrawal. It may not be like withdrawal from heroine, but the fact of the matter is, you feel bad when you crash and you feel good when you mitigate the crash by consuming more simple carbohydrates! Yes, it's a "craving", and if you can't summon the willpower to resist…

Once again, this is true of all addictions. You CAN indeed control it, and you have to to kick the addiction. Even long after the physiological addiction has been broken, most alcoholics cannot permit themselves a drink lest they fall back into their old behavioral patterns again and become both physiologically and…

Great article! His theory: "Hyperpalatable" foods -- those loaded with fat, sugar, and salt -- stimulate the senses and provide a reward that leads many people to eat more to repeat the experience. "I think the evidence is emerging, and the body of evidence is pretty significant," Kessler says. He calls it conditioned…

It's not clear from your post whether you locked your locker or not. If you didn't lock your locker, shame on you, and lesson learned. Personally, I don't bring my wallet into the gym, as there is no need of it in the gym. Our "key" to get into the gym is a bar code on our key chains. So I walk into the gym with my keys in…

Basically, dieting is an exercise in willpower. You have to stay focused so that you can summon the willpower to deny yourself the pleasure of food and to stay the course through feeling hungry. There are some people who claim they are never hungry when on a calorie deficit but for me, I think about food all the time. I've…

Every addiction is overcome with hard work and willpower! No one here is saying that because you have to work hard to break an addiction to food that it's an excuse for working hard to break an addiction to food. At least you are honest about ignoring authorities in the field concerning behavioral addictions. And once…

I'll be sure to look for behavioral "things" in the medical literature. :roll: Every addiction is a behavior that "just needs to be modified"!

You keep making this joke, but seem to ignore when it is pointed out that there are many high-level functioning addicts who don't resort to blow jobs to satisfy their addiction. How many people do you know who have to give blow jobs to get cigarettes? I wish you'd stop with this joke because the point you are trying to…

Grilled chicken is relatively low-calorie. Steak also. Avoiding the calorie-dense bread and pasta can be the hard part! :)

Yup, admitting failure, especially publically, is hard.

You can eat virtually any kind of food and lose weight. You just have to make sure you are consistently eating a calorie deficit. You need to figure out how many calories are in that 10" pizza and chips and work it into your diet plan. It's OK to go over on a day from time to time but every day you aren't eating a deficit…

Well, after reading the article someone posted above: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/sugar-addiction_b_3502807.html I have to say I'm now thinking that there may be something physiological going on also: "Each participant received a brain scan and blood tests for glucose and insulin after each version of the…

I think it's important to note that one kind of behavioral disorder is behavioral addiction, and the lines between them are still blurry. Many addictive behaviors are now in the DSM-V as "disorders", such as binge eating, internet addiction, sexual addiction. Even recognizing these problems as "disorders" is a big step…

Again, I think the word you are looking for is physiological addiction. All addictions are chemical in that they are the result of changes in brain chemistry. You can change this brain chemistry through substance abuse (physiological addiction) or through behavior (behavioral addiction).

This was a contrast, not a comparison. I was showing examples of physiological addictions, which cocaine addiction is. Gambling is a behavioral addiction, recently added to the DSM-V, along with binge eating.

If you are having trouble distinguishing between addictive and non-addictive behavior this link may shed some light on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction "Addictions can include, but are not limited to, drug abuse, exercise addiction, food addiction, sexual addiction, computer addiction and gambling.…

All addictions are chemical, because they are a result of changes in brain chemistry. I think the word you are looking for is physiological addictions. Physiological addictions are the result of a consumed chemical dependency. Examples are addictions to cocaine, or nicotine. Behavioral addictions are the result in the…

It seems you have missed my citations in this thread. You are incorrect about both the ASAM and the DSM-V in regards to both behavioral addictions and food addictions in particular. Here is the link for you again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_addiction

I totally agree with you - I was commenting on the poster who said that it was "just" a willpower issue. Every addiction is a willpower issue. This doesn't mean that addictions are not real problems that are difficult to overcome.

The article also covers the "muscle gain is masking fat loss" issue and points out that if you maintain a calorie deficit there is almost no way to build enough muscle to outpace fat loss. Especially for women who build muscle slower than men.

I track calories, not carbs, because the calorie deficit is what will make you lose weight. You will simply find, if you start tracking your calories, that you will generally take a not-worth-it calorie hit for any high-carb food. So you start avoiding carbs not because there is anything inherently wrong with eating them…

Every addiction is ultimately a result of a lack of willpower. They lack the willpower to stop the negative behavior even knowing the consequences of it.

Again with the condescension. Recognizing a problem is not the same thing as making an excuse for continuing the behavior. The first step to taking responsibility for your actions is recognizing problem actions and their cause. No one is saying that people with eating disorders aren't responsible for their actions.

Because, as I already explained, it's not the sugar causing the behavioral addiction. It's the pleasure derived from the taste of the food. It might be the same sugar in a piece of fruit vs. ice cream, but the ice cream generates far, far more pleasure than any fruit every will! Behavioral addictions are about chemical…

And, in fact, they do! There are behavioral addictions to many pleasurable stimuli. Video games. Internet use. Sex. Pornography. Work. Working out. Gambling. People who have these addictions almost all have frontal lobes. And they generally know that they have a problem, though they may be in denial about it. It's not that…

I most certainly did read the article. Starvation mode is a myth for most people trying to lose weight. Unless you get down to like 5% body fat where there is nothing more to lose, if you are not losing weight it is because you are not maintaining a calorie deficit. In other words, if you are overweight, you cannot get…

No, as the article says, if you are only eating 800 calories a day you must lose weight, unless you are down to like 5% body fat. If you aren't, you probably are not accurately tracking your true caloric intake. I like to speak in absolutes, because there is almost always an exception to the rule. But I think the article…