What Are the First Steps in Controlling My Food Addiction?
Question by NINTENDO: What are the first steps in controlling my food addiction?
I have food addiction. It started when I was a child . My mother would feed me fatty food as a reward for finishing my studies.
As I grew up , anytime I did something related to working hard or studying, I would eat like crazy . Yesterday I had a shrimp basket with fried sweet plantains and chicken with rice from the street vendor .
That’s just yesterday. I been eating junk food for the past 3-4 weeks . Let me put it this way. Whenever I finish a hard project, I have to have Junk Food.
I am on a mission now and all this food addiction is messing up my mission and the health of my body. What’s the first step in putting a stop to this atrocity?
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Answer by dan
as long as you get fruits and veges in that diet with a lot of exercise then you should be alright.
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Stop eating excess food which you are taking unnecessarily taking. Follow a proper diet regularly.
Stick with this new food habit at least for one week, then I think you will get the change in yourself.
Until you understand that your addiction controls you, it’s going to be hard to control it.
Junk food is as addictive as heroine or alcohol. Substance abuse researchers say that the brain adaptions that result from regularly eating so-called hyperpalatable foods – foods that layer salt, fat, and sweet flavors, proven to increase consumption – are likely to be more difficult to change than those “hard drugs” because they involve many more neural pathways. Almost 90 percent of the dopamine receptors in the vental tegmental area (VTA) of the brain are activated in response to food cues. (Dopamine is responsible for will power, mood, reward, punishment and a host of other motivating emotions.)
Brand-new research also shows direct evidence of lasting and fundamental injuries to a part of the brain that helps us regulate our food intake, the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus. Within three days of being placed on a high-fat diet, a rat’s hypothalamus (the area of the brain that responds to the hormones that signal hunger and satiety, pair and maternal bonding and certain social behavior) shows increased inflammation; within a week, researchers see evidence of permanent scarring and neuron injury in an area of the brain crucial for weight control. Brain scans of obese men and women show this exact pattern as well.
The good news — and there IS good news — is that a program of foods high in dopamine- and serotonin-boosting chemicals, along with numerous brain-amping activities (from simple exercise to listening to music) can regrow those receptors and bring the confidence of fulfillment and health.
You CAN learn to live with your eating disorder. There is lots of low-cost help available to you, from 12-step programs to the latest research in the science of food addiction to exercise to free meditation classes in your area. Just believe and continue to reach out. 🙂
Depending on where you live I would talk to a trained interventionist who can help point you in the right direction for addiction treatment options.
I would call: http://www.bayarea-intervention.com/
or go to http://passporttorecovery.com/ to find great addiction resources
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