Category: Food Addicts

No Miracle Diet for Food Addicts

There are diets for everything–the bikini-by-summer diet, the lose-all-the weight-you-want-in-thirty-days diet, the just-get-me-into-my-wedding-dress diet, and myriad other weight loss diets discovered daily. At best, the majority of weight-loss diets are temporary. And why? Because dieters have been programmed to expect temporary results. Most sensational diets over-promise and under-deliver. Once all the weight magically falls off, [...]

Monday February 28th, 2011 in Diets, Food Addiction, Food Addicts, Obesity, Self Help, Weight Loss | No Comments »

Gluttony and Food Addiction

In all the the articles I’ve read about food addiction and in the numerous references to food addicts, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word “gluttony” used. It’s a simple word that means excess in eating or drinking, according to Webster, yet somehow it doesn’t fit with the other words in the food addiction [...]

Sunday February 20th, 2011 in Food Addiction, Food Addicts, Self Help | No Comments »

Five Ways to Help a Food Addict

There are many things you can do to help a food addict. Here are are my top five favorites. 1. Look them in the eye. Food addicts are invisible to those around them. Even if they have grown larger in size and take up more space, to most of society, they are invisible.Being acknowledged is [...]

Saturday February 19th, 2011 in Food Addiction, Food Addicts, Self Help | 2 Comments »

Self-Medicating With Food

Stress is everywhere in our lives today. The digital age has us moving at the speed of light with our bodies trying desperately to keep up. Growing up, I hardly remember hearing about stress. In fact, women were thought to have it so easy that for decades we were not even considered to be at [...]

Thursday February 17th, 2011 in Emotional Eating, Food Addiction, Food Addicts, Stress | No Comments »