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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God, please lift this from me....

ktharp423
ktharp423
I want to want to get well. I have always been a binge eater and addicted to sugar. I have a loving husband, 2 beautiful loving children, a house and a job that I wanted for years and finally got.

Yet I continue to binge every night, I'm not hungry and I still have to feed my face. I hate pictures, I avoid the camera. I am taking myself out of my children's memories by not wanting my picture taken. God please lift this from me....
deleted_user
deleted_user
Cry out to the Lord for He hears you! With help from a friend in this group I started a food journal. I write ddown everything I put in my mouth. Dear Jesus, I can eeeeeeaaaatttt! I think I needed to visualize exactly what I was doing late at night. I started a fourty day fast, 6am to 6pm. I break it with hot tea and then I eat. Now with the food journal, I am not lying to myself. There is a release and I feel more in control. I can see the areas of food I can choose to let go one item at a time. For now I gave up soda(even diet soda). I drink water with lime and hot tea. Smooches!
LindaJean
LindaJean
Oh my friend - I am in the same place. I started a protein diet and even that - I seem to be gaining weight instead of losing it. I too have been asking God to lift this obsession.

I know God will do that - I've had obsessions lifted before - but boy I had to pray and pray and pray. Every time the obsession came up (it was a man) I'd pray my heart out - and it did lift - sort of magically.

I know I want to get my food under control but I resist common sense - like the ideas that ladysings just offered. I want to not eat but I want to eat and I guess I don't want to be reasonable about it.

I'm with you on this one my friend.
LindaJean
LindaJean
By the way - thank you for posting this - I needed to remember that God can lift this pain. I needed to remember to pray about it.
GailTx
GailTx
I not trying to be mean but, If being a good person or praying or having faith in Jesus of God could make you skinny. I would not be 386 pounds. I would be the thinness person in the world. I love my faith. I love Jesus the son of God. But, praying for help and for strength have gotten me no where with my weight. My brother died at 42 weighing close to 500 pounds. I know he pray everyday to be deliver from his addiction with food. I know I have prayed. But praying can get you knowly so far. You have to take the next step. Know why you over eat doesn,t always stop you from doing it. Self-Help can get you only so far.
You need to learn to respect your self and to forgive your self for all the times you falled yourself. Sometimes it take a lot of help to learn what normal is. I been fat all my life. My whole family has a weight problem. So you have to find somebody who can help learn what is normal eating. Dr. Phil always says stop talking and praying about it and just do it. Meaning lose weight.