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[Axe Olotl]

I thought I would start a thread about food addiction, because I haven't found one here.
I don't know if it's even useful, but from my own experience in my family and friend groups, many people struggle with this topic (even though most of them don't want to take accountability) and I guess there might be a few people here as well, who would appreciate talking to someone who gets it.

I will just start in the good old "that's how AA works in the movies" way by saying:
Hi, I'm Axe and I have been using food in an addictive manner for almost 20 years now. I am currently only 17 hours sober after relapsing around a month ago. The longest period I have been sober for has been 1 1/2 years, so there is room for improvement.

For now, let's see if anyone wants to join.

 

[RACISM]

Fat people are niggers.

 

[a feel]

Look, OP, you just need to get poorer.
Can't eat food when you're unable to afford food.

Edit: lol, OP is a fat and gay newfag

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Just stop eating lol

Edit; lol keep crying fatty.

 

[White_N]

Camps or shock psychotropy in a mental institution is my answer

 

[Cats]

what're you on your period or something?

 

[0 0]

I thought I would start a thread about food addiction, because I haven't found one here.
I don't know if it's even useful, but from my own experience in my family and friend groups, many people struggle with this topic (even though most of them don't want to take accountability) and I guess there might be a few people here as well, who would appreciate talking to someone who gets it.

I will just start in the good old "that's how AA works in the movies" way by saying:
Hi, I'm Axe and I have been using food in an addictive manner for almost 20 years now. I am currently only 17 hours sober after relapsing around a month ago. The longest period I have been sober for has been 1 1/2 years, so there is room for improvement.

For now, let's see if anyone wants to join.

Why'd you erase this? I wanted to read it, too.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

Why'd you erase this? I wanted to read it, too.

Haha thank you for reverting it, my first peek in here was when the post was already wiped clean.

 

[Coelacanth]

Actual footage of OP IRL.

 

[Cats]

I thought the thread was just a period and middle finger I didnt realize the person wrote a whole Article about how they were addicted to foods lol. kiwifarms probably made this individual "relapse" into Food Addction again, she's gonna weight 500 pounds now and its all our faults..

 

[BirdUp]

just stop eating

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Just eat less, you fat fuck. Self-control, learn it.

 

[Cats]

 

[SNU]

It's a routine thing. Your body makes you hungry around the same time it usually eats. It doesn't make you hungry because you need food. A good example is if you stop eating breakfast. You'll be hungry at the time you usually eat breakfast for a few days but then you'll adapt to the new routine and stop being hungry at that time. An extreme example would be anorexics. Sure they'll be lethargic and weak from low blood sugar but after a while they'll stop being hungry all the time.



I don't eat until after work. I don't eat breakfast or lunch. It took less than a week to adapt to it. The only exception is I'll have a protein shake at lunch if I did weight lifting the previous day.



In terms of addiction, keeping busy is your best bet. Ask any smoker. When you're busy you don't notice the nicotine cravings as much and can go longer without smoking. Minimizing stress and boredom while keeping busy can help with addiction until you get used to the new routine. When you're bored all you can think about is "fuck I really want a smoke". Even if you just had one.



In terms of body weight. A lot of people are fat because they consume calorie rich foods that get digested quickly. Soda, chips, candy, etc. Lots of calories and get digested instantly so you can eat again immediately. Soda is the worst for it. If you take a salad, find out how many calories are in it, get some pure sugar that's the exact same amount of calories as the salad. Which one will keep you fuller for longer. Make your body work for its calories. You can still have your overly processed food if you can't live with out it but eat something hard to digest half an hour before you do it. Example: eat a raw carrot or something, wait 10-30min then eat some of the junk you're craving. It'll be easier to eat less of it and you're less likely to keep eating more and more of it. A cooked carrot and a raw carrot have approximately the same amount of calories but your body has to work harder to extract the calories from the raw one so you end up absorbing less of them. Using raw foods that are hard to digest you can lose weight without being hungry at all. An extreme example is grass. We lack the equipment to properly digest it so we can't extract all the calories from it and it passes through mostly undigested (I'm not telling you to eat grass. I'm just using it as an example demonstrate the difference between how many calories something is versus how many you can actually extract). So there is some logic behind raw foods to lose weight. Just don't eat uncooked meat. You can extract all the calories from processed foods and they usually have more. Plain unsweetened popcorn is another snack that fills you up without being too high in calories.





The final advice is move away from black and white thinking. Try to think "every little bit helps". It happens slowly over a long period of time. If you expect results too quickly or do something too extreme then you'll give up. It's like if you went from no exercise at all to trying to bench press you're own body weight. It's too hard and you'll give up. Start slowly and go from there. There's no pass or fail. If you slip up and think "I failed" then you'll also think "well seeing as I failed I may as well write off today, binge, then start over tomorrow". Say you have an addiction to ice cream and you want to not eat any more ice cream. You make it through most of the day then have a spoonful. If you do black and white thinking then you'll think "fuck. I failed. I might as well eat the whole tub then try again tomorrow". If you want to avoid black and white thinking then think "I made it slightly longer without eating ice cream and I ate less than I normally do. That's progress" then you try lasting longer and eating less of it going forward until you're able to only eat it on special occasions. Complete restriction isn't sustainable in the long term and you're more likely to fall into black and white thinking.



Also the more you weigh the higher your metabolism. Fatties saying "I just have a slow metabolism" is cope except in extreme examples where you actually have a diagnosis. Fat cells are alive and they require energy to stay alive. The bigger you are the higher your basal metabolic rate and the more calories you need to maintain that weight. Obese people can lose a lot of weight by just having a glass of soda less than normal. It's also why weight loss is faster at the start and slows down the more you lose. As you get smaller the cost of your cells just staying alive gets smaller too.



Now with all that being said, lose some weight fatty. It's not an addiction it's a bad habit. Saying it's an addiction is cope so you can surrender any accountability and wash your hands of it. Being self aware but still doing it anyway isn't better than being too retarded to know better. It's worse

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

It is a very dumb idea to out of any other place on the internet to pick kiwifarms to tell your problems. This website contains the most spiteful little fucks imaginable, they WILL shit on you and if you give them an excuse to do so they WILL shit on you even harder, that is the first thing anyone should be able to notice after lurking a little bit around here.

 

[I've Seen Some More Shit]

N

 

[Dire Dire Cocks]

Someone have the original post? Fatty edited it to virtually flip us all off.

 

[HahaYes]

Someone have the original post? Fatty edited it to virtually flip us all off.

It's quoted by @0 0 in post #7 here.

Axe Olotl said:

I thought I would start a thread about food addiction, because I haven't found one here.
I don't know if it's even useful, but from my own experience in my family and friend groups, many people struggle with this topic (even though most of them don't want to take accountability) and I guess there might be a few people here as well, who would appreciate talking to someone who gets it.

I will just start in the good old "that's how AA works in the movies" way by saying:
Hi, I'm Axe and I have been using food in an addictive manner for almost 20 years now. I am currently only 17 hours sober after relapsing around a month ago. The longest period I have been sober for has been 1 1/2 years, so there is room for improvement.

For now, let's see if anyone wants to join.

 

[The Repeated Meme]

Do away with ultra processed foods entirely (that includes all fast food and really eating out in general) and you're like 90% of the way there. Then you just have to get used to being hungry for extended periods of time. Then near the end of the day eat a real meal. You don't even have to cook. You know how easy it is to bake chicken?

If you really cannot stand to be hungry, just eat healthier. Eat fruit. Salad with dressing. Carrots and dip. That's my advice.

I've never really considered myself a food addict in the traditional sense, but I am obese.

 

[std::string]

Now with all that being said, lose some weight fatty. It's not an addiction it's a bad habit. Saying it's an addiction is cope so you can surrender any accountability and wash your hands of it. Being self aware but still doing it anyway isn't better than being too retarded to know better. It's worse

They've done brain scans and fat people who see a Twinkies label have the exact same areas of their brain activated as alcoholics who see a PBR or Jack Daniels label. It's real.

The solution is just avoiding ultra-processed foods that blast your dopamine receptors. Forever. Just like alcoholics can't ever drink in moderation again.