Food Addiction Support Group

An individual suffering from a food addiction disorder frequently experiences episodes of uncontrolled eating, or binging, during which they may feel frenzied or out of control. They will eat much more quickly than is normal, and continue to eat even past the point of being uncomfortably full. Binging in this way is generally followed by a period of intense guilt feelings...

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eating sucks

loum50
loum50
I have diabetes and high blood pressure from overeating all my life. Those things have caused me to have 2 amputations and kidney disease. I changed to a vegan diet 4 months ago. It has helped, my diabetes is well under control and my blood pressure is doing better and my kidney function has not gotten any worse. I saw my kidney doctor yesterday and he says I'm still dumping too much protein in my urin. He put me on a new medication that requires me to limit my potassium or my heart will stop. 99% of what I eat has potassium in it. Oh, I also have to limit my salt because of the coronary artery disease. I called my nutritionist up today and said I needed to see her asap. So after spending an hour and a half with her we came up with a plan, but it's complicated. Most foods do not list the amount of potassium in them. It just sucks.
deleted_user
deleted_user
how on earth do you know what to eat? I feel really sorry for you
loum50
loum50
It really limits me. I have to keep my potassium intake to no more than 2500 mg of potassium a day. That's not a whole lot. I do have to check the labels on everything. It usually gives the carbs, but not always the potassium. I have a list for raw foods but for packaged, if the potassium is not given then I will cave to try to find it on the internet or E-mail the manufacturer. It takes me a long time to do my shopping. I have to check the carbs, fats, salt and now potassium on everything I buy and then add up how much I eat of it each day. Also I have to take into account the serving size. Complicated!
deleted_user
deleted_user
I did not realise you can get potassium poisoning and found a link that says eating too many bananas can actually kill you. I had actually looked into a raw food diet which would consist of only potassium rich foods which I thought were good for the heart as opposed to salt.

I find it all confusing, eat this, dont eat this, I have books on nutrition that all say different things so how on earth can I make a proper decision on whats a healthy diet for me
loum50
loum50
I really do think a vegan diet is the healthist for diabetes and high bold pressure and it is definately helping, especially the diabetes. It is high in potassium though. The new medication I'm on will make me retain potassium so I need to limit it to less than 2500 mg a day. A lot of low sodium foods use potassium instead and I also have to limit sodium so that pretty much leaves out almost all canned foods. I don't do a lot of elabotate cooking so that leaves frozen. It's hit or miss weather frozen foods list the potassium so I have to do an internet search on anything that doesn't. I have to check absolutely everything I eat for sodium, potassium and carbs. I'm limited to 45 grams of carbs per meal and 1500 mg of sodium/day. I'm keeping a log and I see my nutritionist in 2 weeks again. I really do wish I just didn't have to eat. Another good thing about eating a vegan diet, limiting carbs and sugar, that goes without saying since I'm a diabetic, is that I'm really almost never hungry.