Posts tagged: Emotional Eating

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 , , , , , | No Comments »

Stress and Overeating

Stress is such a tough opponent and it gets tougher as we get older, especially for those of us who already have a problem with food addiction or emotional eating in general. Stress can not only make us eat uncontrollably. It can change our metabolism in such a way that it’s even harder to lose [...]

Wednesday February 23rd, 2011 in , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , | No 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 , , , , , , , , | No Comments »