FA explains that food addicts are dealing with food allergies. I could relate to this idea. I have no control over my body’s reaction when it comes in contact with an allergen. Let’s take for example wool. If I wear wool I get a rash. Once I have a rash, I am powerless over my ability to ignore the itch it produces.
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I tried hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, psychiatry, and acupressure. I instigated many group weight loss competitions and made my own meditation CD, recorded with my own voice. My lack of success did not stem from a lack of trying.
I had met with my family doctor. I told her I thought that I had arthritis in my knees, because I could not raise myself from the floor to a chair without pushing myself up on a chair.
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I am allergic to sugar and flour, and I am also allergic to under eating as well as overeating. But thanks to this most recent humbling lesson, I now understand that I am allergic to eating at wrong times of the day.
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My addiction to food began at a very young age. As a kid, I was home alone a lot, and
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My history is of decades of bingeing, dieting, and over-exercising. I could not pass a buffet without “hoovering” it up! My marriage was in tatters, my body bloated and exhausted, and my life was a complete lie.
When I came into FA nine years ago, all I knew was that I was fat, that I wanted to
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I came into FA at 27 years old, 197 pounds (about 90 kilos), and was living with my boyfriend at
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I was not at all sure that I would ever reach 90 days again after breaking my abstinence earlier this
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