Food Addiction Support Group

A good one is "The Love Response" by Eva M. Selhub, MD. Also there is one called Cravings. But I would have to look up the author. Probably easy to find on Amazon.com

i HIGHLY recommend "When Love Is Food" by Geneen Roth. It is incredibly relatable and has given me, someone who thought she knew all there was to know about her disorder, MANY revelations.

hahhah oops it's "WHEN FOOD IS LOVE"

My saviour book is "Conquer Your Food Addiction" by Caryl Ehrlich. She teaches you a range of things like how to figure out where your addiction stems from, steps with dealing with the emotions when you know a binge will come on, daily affirmations that help you feel positive and believe in yourself and everything else you need to know. The best thing is that she is a ex-food addict and counsellor and she just GETS it. Good luck! :)

This is the shpiel from google books:

Nobody can cajole, trick, or provoke you into shedding those excess pounds. But if you are genuinely ready to go for it, Caryl Ehrlich is here to lead the way with her 8-step program for permanent weight loss. The perfect solution for people who are overweight -- many of whom are compulsive eaters -- Ehrlich's is a behavioral approach to weight loss that teaches you how to change habits in order to overcome food addiction. As she observes, no deprivation diet will work for food addicts, because they use food the way other addicts use drugs or alcohol: not to satisfy physical hunger but to distract oneself from painful feelings -- loneliness, anger, boredom, sadness -- with a never-ending conveyor belt of food.

A former compulsive eater herself, Ehrlich developed this easy-to-understand program for herself more than twenty-five years ago and has taught it to others, with astounding results, for more than two decades. With the help of Conquer Your Food Addiction you will:

• Learn how to distinguish physical hunger from emotional hunger

• Become aware of your unconscious, ritualized eating habits

• Develop the skills necessary to approach food differently

• Change your behavior in order to change your body

• Awaken to an improved, realistic relationship with food

Using original concepts and easy assignments, Ehrlich's proven 8-step program retrains your thought process so that you can begin to see food in a new and healthy way. Once you do, you'll be amazed at how the pounds come off!

this really has more to do with emotional healing than food addiction, but the book that has been my saving grace has been joyce meyer's "beauty for ashes". i also own and plan to read "press pause before you eat" by christian counsoler and food addiction expert linda mintle. a friend of mine also highly recommended jane valez-mitchell's autobiographical struggle with addiction "iWant".

I found many of the answers in 2 books by Kay Shepherd and a book by Anne Katherine. I think I bought the books online. Good reading and recovery.

Mindful Eating, by Jan Chozen Bays, is wonderful and has been encouraging me to lose some of the loathing I have for myself in light of my compulsive eating habits:

"Jan Chozen Bays is a pediatrician and a meditation teacher who has taught mindful eating for more than 20 years. She states that this book is written for all those who would like to improve their relationship to food. That would include those who have a moderate tendency to overeat as well as those dealing with obesity, bulimia, or anorexia. Mindful eating means that we bring skillful attention, curiosity, and intention to choosing, preparing, tasting, and eating food. All the senses come alive, and self-criticism is replaced by self-nurturing.

Bays explores the seven kinds of hunger (eye, nose, mouth, stomach, cellular, mind, heart). Many people admit feeling frustration, sadness, boredom, disappointment, anger, insecurity, or impatience just before they snack. Others eat as a way of relieving loneliness. Bays observes: "Most unbalanced relationships with food are caused by being unaware of heart hunger. No food can satisfy this form of hunger. To satisfy it we must learn how to nourish our hearts."

Another important aspect of mindful eating is taking stock of the eating habits and patterns we have developed through our lives. Some of these patterns of behavior include idiosyncratic eating, overwhelming desire, and going unconscious. In this linchpin chapter, Bays also discusses a feast-or-famine mode of dieting; becoming aware of food cravings, fears, and anxieties; the (un)holy trio of sugar, salt, and fat; and the different dimensions of food and mood.

Bays moves on to Six Simple Guidelines for Mindful Eating:

• Slow It Down
• Right Amount
• The Energy Equation
• Mindful Substitution
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind
• Loving-Kindness and the Inner Critic

In Plum Village, the Zen practice center founded by Thich Nhat Hanh, before meals they say, "In this food I see clearly the presence of the entire universe supporting my existence." We often take for granted our bodies and the food we eat; we stop paying attention to these two precious gifts. Bays points out the importance of the spiritual practice of gratitude in mindful eating. Packaged with the book is a one hour and fifteen minute CD with meditations and other exercises to enhance mindful eating."

I'm finding The Craving Brain by Ronald Ruden helpful. He talks about how binges are triggered by stress and suggests ways to deal with stress.