TAKE ACTION ON YOUR ADDICTION
“Dieting and the fear of food have made us fatter, sicker, more depressed and more obsessed” (Brown 278).
H E L P
How It Happens
How To Stop It
Eating larger portions without any effects rapidly evolves into food addiction because of the cooperation of both the psychological and physical factors. How this happens is very similar to how any other addiction works. Maia Szalavitz explains this when she tells her story in her book “Unbroken Brain”. As she is telling her story, she points out that fact that she was “driven enough to excel academically and fundamentally scared of change and of other people,” yet she was “reckless enough to sell cocaine and shoot heroin.”
Throughout the years, there have
been many diets and fast weight loss programs that have come out with millions anxiously waiting to try them. What corporations are not telling you is that none of these diets or programs work except for one. However, there are many other steps to take to overcome addiction than just a change in diet. To fully accomplish every step needed to overcome food addiction, you first need to understand what food addiction is and how it happens.
What It Is
Food addiction is a grown reliance to the over consumption of foods, especially foods that contain high sugar and carbohydrate levels. According to Jill Karson, who is the author of the research titled “Issues in Society: How Can the Obesity Epidemic Be Controlled?”, 671 million individuals are obese due to food addiction in today’s world. The majority of these individuals became food addicts from unbearable anxiety that was created by comparing themselves to others. Author Harriet Brown believes that this is because the human mind is susceptible to comparing oneself to others because we feel as if it helps us survive and thrive in hostile environments. This is only because it takes our minds off of the built up tension in such environments.
H E L P
How It Happens
How To Stop It
Eating larger portions, without having any effects, rapidly evolves into food addiction because of the cooperation of both the psychological and physical factors. How this happens is very similar to how any other addiction works. Maia Szalavitz explains this when she tells her story in her book “Unbroken Brain”. As she is telling her story, she points out the fact that she was “driven enough to excel academically and fundamentally scared of change and of other people,” yet she was “reckless enough to sell cocaine and shoot heroin.”
Throughout the years, there have
been many diets and fast weight loss programs that have come out with millions anxiously waiting to try them. What corporations are not telling you is that none of these diets or programs work except for one. However, there are many other steps to take to overcome addiction than just a change in diet. To fully accomplish every step needed to overcome food addiction, you first need to understand what food addiction is and how it happens.
What It Is
Food addiction is a grown reliance to the over consumption of foods, especially foods that contain high sugar and carbohydrate levels. According to Jill Karson, who is the author of the research titled “Issues in Society: How Can the Obesity Epidemic Be Controlled?”, 671 million individuals are obese due to food addiction in today’s world. The majority of these individuals became food addicts from unbearable anxiety that was created by comparing themselves to others. Author Harriet Brown believes that this is because the human mind is susceptible to comparing oneself to others because we feel as if it helps us survive and thrive in hostile environments. This is only because it takes our minds off of the built up tension in such environments.
SPENCER'S
STORY
In Beth Macy’s book “Dopesick: Dealers,
Doctors, and the Drug Company That
Addicted America”,she tells a real life story about a man
named Spencer. Spencer was a man who definitely had
pitfalls in his life and thought that he had found the only
way to manage his psychological pain, through heroin
and methamphetamine. However, he managed to become sober for seven years before he was incarcerated for his drug crimes. Spencer even managed to stay sober through his incarceration despite the fact that his long time girlfriend broke up with him and that his “onetime father figure was arrested and jailed for taking indecent liberties with a teenage female student.” The reason that Spencer was able to maintain sobriety for so long, especially through his hard times, is because of martial arts. Spencer was able to refocus his urges and cravings towards studying and learning all that he possibly could about martial arts and jujitsu. He would practice every day and would stick to his prison workouts rather than focusing on the “copious drugs that had been smuggled inside”. He even managed to contact a martial arts expert who would send him research as well as introduce him to pro fighters. Spencer is a prime example of what addicts of any form can be, they just have to want recovery.
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Find Where You
Fit
To be able to properly treat your food addiction, you need to find out where you fit on the scale. This scale was developed by Yale University professors, called Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), and is the top method used in this country for diagnosing food addiction.
Any Nutritionist Can
Help
Once you are think that you are ready to make a serious change, it can be challenging to learn about what diets work, what to buy at the grocery store, and how to make it taste great. There are nutritionists everywhere that are there to help you figure these things out. Click the box below and type “nutritionist near me” to find an office near you.
Contact Helplines
No matter what you are feeling, what time of day it is, or how important you feel your situation is you can call any helpline. A few free helplines are:
Food Addiction Hotline: 866-418-1207
Addiction Hotline: 855-315-4766
Family of Food Addicts Hotline: 800-931-2237
(Monday-Thursday 9a.m to 9p.m. EST, Friday 9a.m. to 5p.m. EST)
Suicide Hotline: 800-273-8255
Find A Support
Group Near You
It always helps to have a group of people supporting you through your struggle that are going through the same one themselves. There are millions of support groups for different struggles everywhere around you. Find a support group for yourself today by calling “Food Addicts Anonymous”.