can't shake addiction

lion paw said:
I am a junk food addict.If you were to look at me you could barely tell.I found out the other day that one of my relatives just got diabetes(there in their 50's)I eat it around 4-5 days a week.I need advice.Any tips from former obese or addicts will be appreciated.

I feel a diabetes threat/heart attack/double bypass coming.
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this isn't the best place to discuss eating problems. they will light your ass up in here. i tried once lol. some stuff was very helpful and is stuff that i continue to rely on to this day in overcoming my problems w/ eating but for the most part, people here will shit on you re: bad eating habits.

junk food addiction is very real. i've been successful by just constantly reminding myself i don't want to appear as a fat ass to others. carry around fat pictures of yourself for motivation. helped me. i'm a work in progress though.
 
Eat more veggies and exercise. You'll feel better and will probably start to crave better food. If you're obese and/or consume a lot of fat in your diet that is a major risk factor for developing insulin resistance and subsequent Type II

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Quitting junk food is easy. Try and kick a hardcore drug habit.
 
Candy is my only vice.

I dont drink, smoke, or play video games. I eat healthy and workout religiously.

But I needz my candy once a week.

I think the best way of dealing with this is to not cut out junk food all together, but rather limit the junk food to one day a week. A cheat-day, if you will. And also not binge on candy, just eat one box.
 
Watch Fat Sick & Nearly Dead (its on netflix)

then do a 7 day juice fast

I did it for 10 days (I didn't need to, I'm not over weight or anything)

you will realize you do need all this shitty food, in fact you will realize you're not really as hungry as your body tells you, you will realize how silly it is that your body tells you to snack when you're watching TV when clearly you don't need food.
 
Hurricane Brad said:
Lol I read that as "eat butter" at first, I was thinking "what kind of advice is that?!"

TS I advise you to stay out of convenience stores and the junk food aisle at the grocery store. Make a list of groceries to buy before hand and stick to it. It takes way more willpower to resist snacking when you have junk food in your house, so just keep your will strong when you're buying groceries and then there won't be any temptation waiting for you at home.
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He should eat grassfed butter in the morning if he wants some energy and to spike his metabolism
 
Just start by learning to cook the simple shit you get out.

Burgers, nuggets, burritos, fried chicken, etc are all really easy to do yourself, cheaper than eating out, and taste much, much better. After you do that for awhile you'll probably look up how to make different stuff, or at least variations of stuff you've gotten used to making. It's a nice way to still eat the type of food you like, but in a more manageable way - not to mention cost effective.
 
The key is finding a healthy alternative to your junk food cravings. Eat fruits, veggies, nuts, or anything else that is healthier instead when you get the cravings. That's really the easiest option. You'll find that you will feel satisfied with the healthy foods as a replacement.
 
MrBoombastic said:
Clean since Tuesday!

Gotta last more than three months this time though...
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I wouldnt advise broadcasting anything until youre a year out. That first six months is a crapshoot, a lot of people jump back in headfirst.
 
drstrangelovitz said:
I wouldnt advise broadcasting anything until youre a year out. That first six months is a crapshoot, a lot of people jump back in headfirst.
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Rofl that's terrible advice, you take every little bit of success you can find

And obviously it doesn't bother me - everyone on sherdog has heard my story (think of a friend... name was Peter... I think). Relapsed two months ago. Honestly after a five year addiction, relapse shouldn't be a surprise
 
I went from being in the low 400's to now in the middle-low 200's (I'm a large framed 6'4, so this is a pretty decent range for me). Junk food wasn't my problem entirely, but it was part of it.

100 years from now, we'll look back on the era we're presently in as far as the behavioral neurology of obesity (and addiction science in general), how the foods around us relate to eating patterns and come to understand that we were going about treating obesity all wrong. Right now, it's a few lone voices in the wilderness being drowned out by a bunch of clueless idiots saying 'just put down the fork'...

Fact is, we still have primitive and deeply impulsive caveman brains in a thoroughly modern world. We're just now learning that people with obesity and food intake issues have entirely different brain makeups than those who don't. This is hereditary. Commercial food entities have figured out how to hijack these natural reward systems to precipitate pattern behaviors, most favorable to their bottom line. It's really no different than smoking. In exchange for their providing a substance that creates a pleasure sensation in your midbrain, you give them money.

My drug was mashed potatoes, stupid as that sounds. Back when I was at my fattest, when I would eat carbohydrates, the resulting neurochemical 'reward' was so intense I would have to go and sleep it off. Most people aren't that way.

I was able to break the cycle with willpower and LOTS of suffering but most importantly, learning how the brain works as far as this shit goes and from that point, approaching the issue with a strong understanding of what was happening with my own body when I engaged in bad pattern behaviors. Once I understood the biology of it all, it was a lot easier to confront and manage an involuntary impulse into a voluntary, deliberate behavior that I had a role in making. Strange as this sounds, once you learn what's happening in your brain, it awakens another unexpected level of consciousness in your body where you're actually physically aware of what's going on inside your head in terms of the wiring and chemicals. Hard to explain, but very interesting to experience.

Carbohydrate addiction withdrawal was immense and a bastard motherfucker. When I faltered, I turned to medicine that worked. I weaned off that, went back to willpower.

Still working.
 
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I'm not sure if obese peoples' minds work differently, but people definitely have different body types. Some people gain fat very easily, and some people struggle to put on any fat. It sucks having a body type that puts on fat easily. I have always had to really watch my diet and make sure I exercise daily to keep from putting on fat. It's annoying when you know people that eat like shit and sit on their ass, but they naturally don't put on fat.

One thing that is true, human beings were designed to eat like food wasn't plentifully available. This means we crave eating the fattiest possible foods available. Now that food is plentifully available, many of us over do it.
 
If you really think it is an addiction, get professional help. If it's just you realizing that it is a bit hard to stop, then just stop dude.
 
I have a similar problem. I'm in pretty good shape so I usually don't think much of it but I eat way too much candy. Anywhere from 3-10 packs of hard sugar candy per week. I need to stop this madness
 
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