[Mediator]

Hi folks

I have to admit to my self that I have a food addiction. ok. It is a start of my thread here.

I know that I need to accept my problem.

Take care
Mediator

[Perna]

Hi, Mediator; good WebMD article on the subject: http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/m...food-addiction

Can you tell us more?

[Sabrina]

I am suspecting I have an addiction too. And what is so frustrating is that we need food to survive! How to separate the addiction from the necessity is beyond me.

[Mediator]

Originally Posted by Perna

Hi, Mediator; good WebMD article on the subject: http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/m...food-addiction

Can you tell us more?

I made a copy from the website above, there are my problems.

• Being obsessed and/or preoccupied with food.
• Having a lack of self-control when it comes to food.
• Having a compulsion about food in which eating results in a cycle of bingeing despite negative consequences.
• Remembering a sense of pleasure and/or comfort with food and being unable to stop using food to create a sense of pleasure and comfort.
• Having a need to eat which results in a physical craving.

[Mediator]

Originally Posted by Sabrina

I am suspecting I have an addiction too. And what is so frustrating is that we need food to survive! How to separate the addiction from the necessity is beyond me.

I really agree. If it is an addiction on something what you should avoid it seems easy. I give up smoking, it was 23 years ago. But food is something that we need to shift our overeating to eat for our health. I like a book http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Less-Sa.../dp/0091902479

But I struggle to make a plan what I will eat and eat how I told myself.
Yesterday I thought that I ate enough and evening I ate a rubbish food.