What is Food Addiction?
Food addiction is a DISEASE, like alcoholism. As food addicts, we use food to relieve stress and soothe feelings. Food addiction is Not About Personal Failings. It IS a DISEASE.
Some symptoms of food addiction include:
1) having cravings for food, despite feeling full and having just finished a meal,
2) eating much more than we intended and eating to the point of feeling excessively “stuffed,”
3) feeling guilt, shame and judgment after eating, yet finding ourselves eating again,
4) believing the lies that our addict mind tells us about why we should eat something that we are craving,
5) repeatedly trying to quit eating or setting rules about certain foods, but being unsuccessful,
6) hiding our large consumption of foods from others,
7) feeling unable to control our food quantities, despite knowing that this causes us mental, spiritual and physical harm including unhealthy weight gain,
8) depriving or restricting ourselves of eating and getting proper nutrition,
9) obsessively weighing ourselves on the scale, then making decisions based on the result and
10) having a negative body image; feeling ashamed, self-conscious, uncomfortable, awkward and anxious about our bodies.
Some symptoms of food addiction include:
1) having cravings for food, despite feeling full and having just finished a meal,
2) eating much more than we intended and eating to the point of feeling excessively “stuffed,”
3) feeling guilt, shame and judgment after eating, yet finding ourselves eating again,
4) believing the lies that our addict mind tells us about why we should eat something that we are craving,
5) repeatedly trying to quit eating or setting rules about certain foods, but being unsuccessful,
6) hiding our large consumption of foods from others,
7) feeling unable to control our food quantities, despite knowing that this causes us mental, spiritual and physical harm including unhealthy weight gain,
8) depriving or restricting ourselves of eating and getting proper nutrition,
9) obsessively weighing ourselves on the scale, then making decisions based on the result and
10) having a negative body image; feeling ashamed, self-conscious, uncomfortable, awkward and anxious about our bodies.