Posts tagged: Food Addiction

Taking Time to Heal

It is important to take the time necessary to heal the pain in your life. It’s hard to be patient in this new world where we want everything to happen now. Hurt can come in the form of physical or emotional pain. Healing takes time and requires patience and trust. If you use food to [...]

Thursday March 3rd, 2011 in , , , | No Comments »

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, [...]

Hope For Food Addicts In The Form of a Hormone, Leptin

This Leptin hormone has really grabbed my attention. It answers some serious questions for me about food addiction and stress eating. So here’s another installment on Leptin from Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist Byron Richards. Listen up and then do some research of your own. Enjoy.

Friday February 25th, 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 [...]