"Food addiction" - it is real?

Going back a few years, I legit thought I was “addicted” to sugar. I read books on it, listened to podcasts about it and everything they were describing was how I felt and acted around sugar.   Part of my brain liked this realisation because it was an “excuse” as to why I couldn’t control myself. It was my “fault”, I was ADDICTED! And so I put myself on a quest to cut it out of my diet completely, promising myself that I would never eat the “poison” again!   ...Of course, that lasted about 3 days 🤣 and there I was again, sat on the sofa, belly so full I could hardly breathe, loathing the sight of myself and all the empty chocolate wrappers.  But even still, the diet voice was still there… “Now that you’ve binged on chocolate and sugar again, write down how sh*t you feel. Then when you give up sugar again on Monday – for real this time – you’ll have something to refer back to.”   That’s what a lot of experts say in the personal development world, isn’t it…? To take full responsibility and to remind yourself that YOU are in control and everything in life is a CHOICE.   Want a better life? Then ask better questions and make better choices…   There are 2 things wrong with that statement;   1. In order to make a conscious choice, we need to be in a relaxed state to do so. Chronic dieters who are stuck in the diet-binge cycle have so much food and body trauma, it’s impossible for them to be able to make any kind of relaxed conscious choice around food. (Until they do the work around this.)  2. Eating is a biological need – it’s a natural animal instinct, just like breathing and thirst. And when we restrict – whether that’s cutting out foods groups, stopping sugar, restricting calories, or even thinking about dieting – our bodies biologically crave high-fat high sugar foods. Your biology literally physically changes to drive you to eat these types of food.  To learn more about this read my article on binge eating: https://victoriakleinsman.com/mindset/how-to-stop-binge-eating/ In this episode I’m going to reveal the truth about “food addiction” (I can’t even type it without putting it in quotes😆) so that you can see that you’re not broken or weird or addicted… you’re just like I used to be and all you need to do is come back to yourself and know that there is another way. 🙏🏼  https://victoriakleinsman.com/mindset/food-addiction-is-it-real/    Claim your free seat in my upcoming food & body freedom masterclass: https://victoriakleinsman.com/ig-masterclass/  I would LOVE for you to join my FREE Food Freedom & Self-Love Support group (which is purposefully away from Social Media): https://join.slack.com/t/foodfreedomselflove/shared_invite/zt-t0od8mw7-hEdMZJFtAWwxbyvjR~VJ9A  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriakleinsman/  FB: https://www.facebook.com/victoriakleinsman  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1g1H40rbSQ6Trmcha59kDg  Podcast: https://anchor.fm/victoria-kleinsman  Email: [email protected]   Please rate & review if you enjoy this podcast :)