Breaking the sugar habit has everything to do with getting in touch with your feelings. I can’t emphasize enough how many people tell me that their real problem with food is about feelings and using food to fill a need it cannot fill. A big one is comfort. The usual food of choice for this need is sugar and starchy food which is also of course highly addictive. The two things go together. That is why the real goal is to learn how to unblock your feelings, identity your needs and find a way to … [Read more...]
Obesity and Overeating; Why you have no willpower…
Here's what I have learned in the ten years of working with people who struggle with diet plans and are seeking healthy ways to lose weight. Although Kelly Brownell who wrote Food Fight is focusing on children who are certainly victims of the obesity epidemic, we are all prey to these insidious and dangerous phenomena of the addictive substances in processed food. What is going on? I think we have all been misled into believing and thinking that diet and exercise are the answer. … [Read more...]
Sugar Cravings: Why you can’t follow a plan to lose weight.
Sugar Cravings: Why you can’t follow a plan to lose weight. Why are we reluctant to call eating disorders and other negative habits that relate to food eating addictions? According to Gabor Mate, MD, author of In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, a powerful book, the definition of an addiction is: a habit that causes negative consequences and despite these consequences you cannot stop or change easily. According to most addiction experts, an addiction is also a chronic neurobiological … [Read more...]