Are You Addicted to Food? How To Tell & Food Addiction Resources

Do you find yourself turning to food without thinking? Do you use food for comfort when you are feeling bad? Are you overweight and unable to lose those pounds when you go on a diet? You may be addicted to food and of all possible addictions, it can be one of the most difficult to break because food is necessary to live. You don't have the option of simply giving up food and never touching it again as you would if you were addicted to tobacco, alcohol, or drugs. The problem is that if you have an addictive personality, it is entirely possibly to become physically addicted to food.

How To Tell If You Are Addicted To Food?

Sometimes it is hard to distinguish food addiction from a simple lack of control, but they are not the same thing. Where there is lack of control in food addiction, there have been studies wherein people's brains were examined with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. When a food addict was asked to think about a certain food, his brain lit up in the same way a drug addict's brain does so when thinking about drugs.

Food Addiction Research Study

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What To Do About Your Food Addiction

Because it is a physical addiction, like any other addiction, it is a serious problem. Possible ways of dealing with it might be by following a 12-step program (see below), working with a doctor or having inpatient treatment. Aside from those options, there are some ways to gain control over your food addiction. These strategies include:

Journal Your Food Intake

For a few days, write down all the food you eat, including where and when you ate it, anyone you were with, and how you felt before and after you ate the food. Keeping this journal will help you become aware of any eating patterns; until you are, it will be difficult to change what you eat. In the same way that a drug addict needs to stay away from certain people when he is in recovery, you may need to avoid certain people or situations until you have your eating under control.

Eat Slowly and Taste Your Food

Notice how you are eating your food. Are you rushing through a meal? Are you watching television or reading while you eat? This is mindless eating and it is part of the problem. You need to slow down and pay attention to your food. Make a new habit of slowly savoring every bite of your food.

Avoid Triggers

By studying your journal, find out what triggers your food addiction and then avoid them. Do you find that if you go to a baseball game, you eat hot dogs and drink beer without paying attention to how much you are consuming? Or do you give yourself a pass when you go out to a restaurant, and eat anything you want? Maybe it would be better to avoid baseball or eating out until you feel you can control your eating. Yet, most addicts of any type will tell you that abstaining is not the same as ridding yourself of people, places and things related to the addiction. If your trigger is something more personal than a place or thing, maybe from devastating circumstances, then it may be that you need to seek professional help in working through the issue(s) at the bottom of your food addiction.

Pay Attention to Nutrition

Mindful Eating is an important change. If you find that you are only eating foods that bring you comfort rather than what is nutritionally healthy for you, you are sabotaging your efforts to get over your food addiction. It will help if you take a moment to think when you feel the urge to eat. Are you really hungry? If you aren't, then you should not eat. If you are hungry, then remember to eat to feed your body well.

Processed Foods & Addiction
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This may sound like an impossible task, but the more you practice making healthy food choices, the easier it will be. Eventually, you will even find yourself craving those healthy foods. When that happens, you will know that you've finally gained control over your eating.

Programs To Help Food Addiction

In addition to our products and the 90 Day Program, there are programs that you can refer to online and offline to help with your food addiction. Here are a few links to help:

Overeaters Anonymous

Food Addicts

Food Addicts Anonymous

The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) on Binge Eating

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Your friend,

Lea

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Weight Loss Is Not Just What You Eat, But How You Eat

Dieting often focuses on calories, carbs, fats and tracking. However, healthy eating patterns are not just about the food you eat, but also about when and how you eat. The way you eat and involve your senses will have a direct impact on your dietary habits, so instead of concentrating on telling you what foods to eat over and over again, this article shares tips as part of your approach to help you manage how you eat to lose weight.

How To Eat For Weight Loss

1. Chew Your Food Slowly

On average, how many times do you chew each mouthful? The answer is probably not enough. Food should be chewed up to 30 times, which may seem a lot but thorough chewing can aid weight loss. It takes around 20 minutes for your brain to register chemical signals that tell it you're full, so the quicker you swallow your food the more you are likely to consume before your brain realises you've had enough. Chewing longer and well will help you to eat more slowly, appreciate your meal, eat less and have better digestion.

2. Look At Your Food When You Eat

When watching TV, at your work desk or on the go it's so easy to absentmindedly eat something with barely a glance, then still feel like you have hardly eaten anything and want more. This is a big barrier to weight loss, as it makes it difficult for your brain to register what and how much you are eating if you don't focus your attention on your food and actually look at it. Whenever possible, look at what you're eating before taking each bite and try to avoid distractions at meal times. This will also help you to eat more slowly, remember what you have eaten, stick to a good diet and, best of all, enjoy your food more when you appreciate it with your eyes and not just your mouth.

3. Get Hands-On With Your Food

There's a part of people that loves to touch food; children want to get their hands stuck into the cake mixture, the warm feel of freshly baked crusty bread is irresistible and how better to confirm the ripeness of fruit than to give it a gentle squeeze. When it's possible (and hygienic), getting hands-on with food helps you to slow down and savour it. Being able to engage the sense of touch also helps your brain to recognise and appreciate the food before tasting it. Quickly munching a snack straight from the wrapper does your diet no favours; it will more likely leave you hankering for more.

4. Use Small Plates, Saucepans, Portion Tracker

For a lot of people, a plate of food is a normal sized meal. However, the size of the plate would therefore affect their perception of what constitutes a normal sized meal. Someone receiving half a plate of food will likely feel disappointed, but if they receive the same amount on a smaller plate they may feel that they have been given a full portion of food. YOU CAN DO THIS, TOO!!! The alternative is to use a Portion Control tool to make sure that you have the right amount of food on your plate at each meal.

Also, cooking with large saucepans will also encourage the use of more ingredients, so opt for smaller dinnerware and cookware to help with portion control and make a diet appear less restrictive.

5. Eat Earlier and Not Less Than 2 to 3 Hours Before Bed

It's tempting to have a little snack after dinner especially if you eat dinner 5 to 6 hours before bed. It's natural that you would feel hungry again especially if you are used to eating every 4 to 5 hours, but this can lead to weight gain, disturb your sleep and digestive tract. If night eating is your struggle, try eating dinner a little later than you are used to, so that it is easier to break that habit. If you eat about 3 1/2 hours earlier then you can take Skinny Fiber or Skinny Body Max before dinner and then the  HiBurn8  two to three hours after dinner and completely bypass that temptation. It will take time to establish this new habit, though weight loss is about making changes and this is one that can be life changing if you do it.

What To Eat For Weight Loss Is Important To, But How & When Go Hand In Hand!

Balanced diet and exercise are essential for keeping fit and healthy but the way you eat can also affect your eating habits and weight loss goals. Taking time over your food and engaging your senses will help you to process, appreciate, stick to and get the most from your meals and diet.

You are eating to nourish and not living to eat!!!


Here's To YOUR Weight Loss Success,

Lea
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Skinny Fiber & Skinny Body Max - Janice's Weight Loss Results

My friend Janice is super excited about sharing her weight loss pictures. 

She is still at the beginning of her journey, though is losing a lot of inches from her belly and starting to shed the pounds. Best of all, Janice is noticing that she is not craving her favorite "treats" as much as before taking Skinny Body Max. Her belly is starting to go down ...

Some details that got her to this point:

Janice took Skinny Fiber first and lost 9 pounds; her major change was drinking more water each day. She got off the Skinny Fiber for a few months and felt the weight creeping back on so, she ordered Skinny Body Max and started taking it February 14, 2016.

In January she was 264 pounds and now (February) she is 254.8 pounds.

Her message on February 28th:

"Hello, been on the SBM for about a week, my clothes are looser, i can see changes but the scale hasn't moved much i will send pics next weekend. My sweet cravings are almost at zero. Sometimes i am not hungry when i take the second dosage, like i have to force myself to eat dinner"

Her message this week:

"Don't know if you can tell a difference the scale isnt moving much, but my clothes are a lot looser, sleeping better and appetite has changed, some days i am still full when i take the second dosage of SBM ... Started with the regular SF Jan @264 now the scale says 254.8 with SBM about 10 lbs and many inches. I noticed some things that I eat taste very dull now, they don't taste the same as before me taking the SBM, have you have some comments like that. Reese cups are not as sweet, i had a glass of pop didn't have much taste to me, chips are not as tasty"

Janice has done an incredible job!!!! I thank her for submitting her ONE MONTH results ... they are inspiring ... and I am prayerful that she will keep just as she is now!

Skinny Body Max & Weight Loss Results

Whether you have a little or a lot of weight to lose, your weight loss results with Skinny Body Max or Skinny Fiber comes with a 90 day challenge website to help you stay on track. It includes tracking for inches and weight lost; free fitness and health guide; how to order more product(s), and info on how to get support when you want / need it, so that you do your best in the weight loss challenge. SEND AN EMAIL or call me if you have any questions or concerns!

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