What is Food Addiction
Compulsive overeating is characterised by an addiction to food. An individual suffering from compulsive overeating disorder engages in frequent episodes of uncontrolled eating, or ...
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* * * * * * * * * It is Jan 2 and on Jan 1 I fell into sugar for the first time in almost 3 years! I started eating flour back in November...didn't take long for that to get to the sugar, now did it? Husband had Gastric Bypass Surgery (Rouen-Y) Nov. 12 and after 1 week in the hospital came home and began bingeing!!! Then he began puking the next week and hasn't stopped. He is obsessed with food so much that he keeps getting more and more junk and bringing it home and trying to eat it. Of course I begin eating it!! I prayed NYE for abstinence in the NY and have actually been excited about the idea. But first of course I have to finish off the sugar free fat free puddings and the huge pot of chili and the chips ... But then there was an ad on TV for Pillsbury chocolate chip cookies and I slobbered and my husband said that he had cookies in the car and I said, can I have them and he said of course and went and got them. I ate 4 huge cookies. I sugar cookie with MMs and 2 choc. chip and 2 pb. That was preceded by chili and chips and now... I am so full I can hardly breathe. I want to go to bed but feel compelled to keep eating as soon as I can move again and stuff some more in. OMG...the frenzy could come again...is this what it takes to hit bottom? God, may it come quick and may I be free soon... No crying jag yet, but that has been the usual response to sugar w/in minutes. I am drunk on sugar. I have avoided 12 steps for months now but am wondering where else I can go? I don't want to be thin or slender but I have to breathe. Posted on 01/02/09, 04:01 am |
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hi joyess1, sugar is my problem too. i have been on a binge since halloween. I decided to give it up for the new year. It's so hard but i know that i need too. i have a problem with depression, especially after i eat sugar, i also have an addiction to chocolate and the last thing i need is the combination of caffeine and sugar. my 28 yea old daughter lives with me and she has a food addiction when ever i decide to avoid sugar she comes home with brownies or cookies. i can't control her or anyone else but myself so i'm going to do this with self dicipline and use all of the tools i have learned about in a twelve step program. i let her know yesterday that i was going to throw away ALL of the sweets in the house, there are so many because of the holidays. There will always be people out there that would like to sabotage our progress but we have to be strong and take care of ourselves. i'm so tired of the depression and anxiety that comes from eating sugar and chocolate. i wish you luck, it will be hard but i know we can do it. HAPPY NEW YEAR 
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the more sugar I eat the more I want- its true. I don't give it up completely but I do best with only a few treats here and there. I feel drunk when I eat chocolate though. Like I act hyper crazy and weird!!
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Just out of curiosity - did you ask your husband why he was compelled to binge after the surgery? As well, I've noticed in your post that your husband seems to be an enabler...seems like he wants you to go down the wrong road with him. (He immediately offered to get your cookies when you were thinking of having some, as oppose to trying to talk you out of it). Perhaps pointing that out to him might help to him to be more aware of his action and not sabotage you? Just a thought.
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I know what it is like to be in the sugar. I have been sugar free since July and stay that way because I remember what it was like. I used to just eat and eat and eat it until I would literally pass out. It is hard to be sugar free but is worth it
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I have asked my husband to only bring home what he plans on eating that day of binge foods and to keep them where I don't have to see them and to not discuss them with me, I still have to see when he is eating them but only the serving he has for himself and I know if there is more it is only what he is planning on eating that day so it's not mine. It helps me a bit. If I do have to have food in my home because others are coming then I put it into a container that I can't see into so that it at least is not visually tempting me.
The other thing we have done is completely switch off the TV. We watch videos sometimes but we don't watch TV and that way we just don't see the adverts this has not only helped me to not want to binge on those glorious binge foods advertised but also has helped my children to be grateful for the toys and things they have instead of wanting what is advertised which was an added unexpected bonus to not having adverts in our home.
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I have a problem with sugar it brings me out in the worse rash, in fact a specialist told me I had Roseacea. Lots of medication and constantly feeling ill and I just gave up all food reintroducing food item by item - no rash until I had sugar and my skin flared up again. So no sugar means no rash, I can live with it.
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