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This diet, again was not created by a dietician or a doctor, it was created by a housewife in 1960 and has been used as a bible for the past 60 years. This created the premise that you are addicted to food and you need to stick to this diet in order to be okay. When OA began their “dignity of choice” (no food plan) – FA was created (food addicts anonymous). She created a diet based on the diet trends of the time and used that to create the world of overeaters anonymous. In 1960, a housewife (Roxanne S.) took the big book that her husband had been using to recover from alcoholism and adapted it for her own food issues. NO YOU ARE NOT AN ADDICT.ġ2 step programs started as a means to use spirituality to help alcoholics and drug addicts recover.

I want to first direct you to a post I wrote several years ago about 12 step programs for food. That I’m an addict who will never recover and that I have to be in the program otherwise I’ll be lead by my addict. I am not sure that I want to be in the program anymore but I am scared that it’s true. Every time I go back, my sponsor and the program people tell me that I’m an addict and that I can’t trust myself, I can only trust the program and that my addict is an evil, manipulative beast who lives inside of me and lies and cheats and hurts people to get its needs met. I’ve been up 70 pounds and down 70 pounds for years. I lose lots of weight, then I relapse and I gain it all back and then I drop out of program and then I go back again and lose the weight. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous ™ offers hope through a long-term solution for food addiction.I’ve been in a 12 step group for food addiction for many years. If you answered YES to any of these questions, you may be a food addict.

Do you feel hopeless about your relationship with food?.

Are you waiting for your life to begin "when you lose the weight?".

Do you frequently feel guilty or ashamed about what you've eaten?.

Do you obsessively calculate the calories you've burned against the calories you've eaten?.

Do you feel driven to exercise excessively to control your weight?.

Have you ever hidden food to make sure you will have "enough?".

Have you ever stolen other people's food?.

Do you fast or severely restrict your food intake?.

Have you ever discarded food, only to retrieve and eat it later?.

Do you eat to escape from your feelings?.

Is your weight problem due to your "nibbling" all day long?.

Do you eat large quantities of food at one time (binge)?.

Has a doctor or a family member ever approached you with concern about your eating habits or weight?.

Do you eat differently in private than you do in front of other people?.

Do you binge and then "get rid of the binge" through vomiting, exercise, laxatives, or other forms of purging?.

Do you find yourself attempting one diet or food plan after another, with no lasting success?.

Do you constantly think about food or your weight?.

Have you ever wanted to stop eating and found you just couldn't?.

To answer this question, ask yourself the following questions and answer them as honestly as you can. Over time we became aware that these were symptoms of food addiction. We hated to admit that we had a problem and that we were not “normal” with food. We heard people express feelings of low self-esteem, fear, doubt, insecurity, shame, guilt, and hopelessness around their relationship with food. Or if we sometimes restrained our eating while on a diet, it never lasted very long. Many of us had self-discipline in other areas of our lives, but not with food. We thought we lacked willpower or self-discipline.

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