Are you a food addict? How can you tell?

I knew I was a food addict when I ate until it hurt, and then was just sorry I didn't have room for more.

Food then was what I wrapped my day around planning my every meal and snacking in between them all. Now I just dont even think I forget to eat.

I knew I was a food addict when.... As my husband and I finished dinner we would say "What's next".

I have 6 mason jars of candy/junk food on my kitchen counter for when I get my "hunger attacks" which are know are really just anxiety.  They are always in view, which makes them hard to avoid.  I have been working on putting more healthy snacks into them.  I also know that if I distract myself, the need to eat something goes away, so I am working on that, as well.

I am 8 years post op RYGB, and I still remember about how much I craved food all the time. I woke up thinking what I was going to eat that day.  I turned to food for comfort, when I was bored or stressed. I have also been a bariatric coordinator for 8 years and have been able to share with patients. They loved it and also agreed with me on their food addictions. Start focusing on other things...exercise is the #1 thing to do,

 I am only a "Food Addict" when I am not the one cooking the meal! I love to eat eveyone elses food! When I cook, it is a sort of therapy for me and when the meal is ready, I enjoy watching others eat it! Sounds crazy but just being honest here!

I'm the same way! I love to cook (and am pretty decent at it), but when I cook I will take a few bites and be happy. The process of cooking is enough to satisfy me, for the most part. After all of that time spent messing with it, smelling it, thinking about how to make it right... I kind of lose interest in actually eating it.

I finally accepted that I was a food addict when...

every waking, breathing minute of my day is spent thinking about/planning food.  It is my friend.my lover.  It is my high, like heroin or cocaine to a drug addict.  Something I go to in times of depression, times of anger, times of loneliness, times of happiness or celebration.

Marilyn

I finally accepted (could tell) that I was a food addict when......



I was eating all the time and stuffing my mouth full of everything that I could get my hands on.  I was raised on meat and potatoes, and I expected it every night.  And when I cooked, I made sure that there was plenty for seconds and leftovers.

Actually as of today, I am over two years out and I am still a food addict.  I will call my mom (who fixes most of my meals) after I get to work in the morning to find out what we are having for dinner that night.  We (her and I) are always thinking about food and what we can have next.  The difference between her and I is that I eat a very little amount and only what I know that my pouch can handle, where she eats to her hearts content.  But I just like to know what I have to look forward to when I get home for a meal. 

It is so true that the surgery may do wonders for your stomach, but it does absolutely nothing for the brain.  I fight wanting to eat and over eat every day almost.  I have days where I barely eat anything and then I have days that I eat everything in site.  Some how it has a balance somewhere. 

See told you, STILL a food addict.

I finally accepted (could tell) that I was a food addict when......

I had just  dinner and took packs of snacks into the TV room with me for the family -  by the end of the movie I saw all these wrappers next to me and I had eaten them all because no-one came in to watch the movie except me.  And I was not even hungry as I had just had dinner.  I found myself then picking the wrappers up quickly before anyone came in and saw how much I had eaten.  It was a sad realization that I was ashamed of what my family would think if they knew how I pigged out - and that  it was not the first time either.....

Thank goodness for WLS - even if I wanted to eat all that I am not physically capable of it....

Jackie