{"id":3846,"date":"2010-07-15T09:06:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2010-07-15T09:06:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T16:06:39","slug":"food-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=3846","title":{"rendered":"Food Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skinnie Emmie wrote a great post the other day on Binge Eating<\/a>. The post stayed with me and I started thinking about it because I could really relate. I was a binge eater back in the day. I could easily eat half a carton of ice cream in one sitting.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For me, my food addictions were from boredom and depression. I was bored, depressed about being fat, lazy and as a result would just eat. And eat. And eat some more. You don’t get to 250 without making lazy choices, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

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Food Addiction is a sensitive topic. Honestly, I’m not sure if I believe in food addiction. There are people that claim food can be just as addicting as drugs. I believe that SUGAR <\/strong>can be addicting. I’ve gone through the effects of sugar withdrawal too many times to count! And nothing compares to the feeling of a sugar craving you can’t control.<\/p>\n

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I remember “back in the day” I would buy candy bars (my favorite were 5th Avenue Bars or Butterfingers) at the grocery store and stock up on them in my house. Honestly, they were probably the King Size bars, too (That’s 320 calories<\/strong> + the milk I was drinking with it!). I got into the habit of eating one every day and then when I’d run out, I’d get panicked. I didn’t have my daily candy bar! Did I just say oh well? Nope, I went to the store and got more! I got into the HABIT <\/span><\/strong>of eating the candy bars every day and felt WEIRD <\/span><\/strong>when I didn’t!<\/p>\n

“Are you a food addict?<\/span> <\/strong>(taken from Food Addicts Website)<\/a>
\nTo answer this question, ask yourself the following questions and answer them as honestly as you can.<\/p>\n

1 Have you ever wanted to stop eating and found you just couldn’t?
\n2 Do you think about food or your weight constantly?
\n3 Do you find yourself attempting one diet or food plan after another, with no lasting success?
\n4 Do you binge and then “get rid of the binge” through vomiting, exercise, laxatives, or other forms of purging?
\n5 Do you eat differently in private than you do in front of other people?
\n6 Has a doctor or family member ever approached you with concern about your eating habits or weight?
\n7 Do you eat large quantities of food at one time (binge)?
\n8 Is your weight problem due to your “nibbling” all day long?
\n9 Do you eat to escape from your feelings?
\n10 Do you eat when you’re not hungry?
\n11 Have you ever discarded food, only to retrieve and eat it later?
\n12 Do you eat in secret?
\n13 Do you fast or severely restrict your food intake?
\n14 Have you ever stolen other people’s food?
\n15 Have you ever hidden food to make sure you have “enough?”
\n16 Do you feel driven to exercise excessively to control your weight?
\n17 Do you obsessively calculate the calories you’ve burned against the calories you’ve eaten?
\n18 Do you frequently feel guilty or ashamed about what you’ve eaten?
\n19 Are you waiting for your life to begin “when you lose the weight?”
\n20 Do you feel hopeless about your relationship with food?<\/p>\n

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you may be a food addict. You are not alone. FA offers hope through a real solution to food addiction.”<\/p>\n

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Montana<\/p><\/div>\n

I had a heated discussion with a friend of mine who said she’s been on Weight Watcher since she was 13. She firmly believes in Food Addiction and was shocked that I don’t. I told her I was on the fence about it, not that I didn’t believe in it. She was surprised and said that I can’t be 250 pounds without being addicted to food.<\/p>\n

Food Addiction is not like being addicted to alcohol, drugs, cigarettes. You HAVE to eat to survive and you can’t avoid your “drug” because you would die.<\/p>\n

What I believe is that we want to make excuses <\/strong>for why we haven’t made the positive changes in our life. I say “we” because I’ve been there and I made all the excuses too! It’s so much easier to say “I don’t have time to work out<\/span><\/strong><\/em>” than to actually figure out how to make time.<\/p>\n

“I can’t lose weight no matter what I do.”<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I work out but don’t see a change.”<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I’ll always be fat.”<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I said all those things and more. And guess what? I wasn’t losing weight because I didn’t change my eating habits. I wasn’t losing weight because I was half-assing a workout and wasn’t consistent with going. And finally, I will not be fat forever. I made the changes to prove that statement wrong!<\/p>\n

The reason I’m on the fence about Food Addiction is because if it were an addiction, that would mean I clearly CURED myself of my addiction, right? I was able to lose the weight and keep it off (for the most part) so how is it an addiction?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>QUESTION: What are your thoughts on Food addiction? Have you experienced it? Do you think it’s curable?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skinnie Emmie wrote a great post the other day on Binge Eating. The post stayed with me and I started thinking about it because I could really relate. I was a binge eater back in the day. I could easily eat half a carton of ice cream in one sitting. For me, my food addictions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,55,75,84,91,92,104,105,106,1243,193,194,214,246,278,297,298,300],"tags":[8623,8628,582,739,8662,1067],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}