Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction

By: Vera Tarman

Narrated by: Lisa Bunting

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

A fact-filled guide to coping with compulsive overeating problems by an experienced addictions doctor who draws on many patients' stories of recovery.

Overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia - Food Junkies tackles the complex, poorly understood issue of food addiction from the perspective of a medical researcher and dozens of survivors. What exactly is food addiction? How is it different than an eating disorder such as bulimia or binge eating? Is it possible to draw a hard line between indulging cravings for "comfort food" and engaging in substance abuse? For people struggling with food addictions, recognizing their condition remains a frustrating battle. Diagnosis and treatment evades the suffering food addict.

This revised second edition contains the latest research on food addiction as well as practical recovery strategies for people facing the complicated challenges of comfort overeating, eating disorders, and food addictions. This audiobook offers an affirming and manageable path to healthy and sustainable eating habits.

You will learn:

• How to identify the trigger foods that you are powerless to resist so you're never caught off guard.
• Tricks on how to stop eating sugar or use food as a crutch, two of the hardest habits to break.
• Stop binge-eating or grazing all day and avoid piling on weight.
• End the night eating so you fall asleep faster, sleep better, and feel great the next day.
• How to stop feeling ashamed when you step on the scale and are tempted to drown your sorrows in the kitchen

This audiobook is for anyone who has experienced yo-yo dieting, food obsessions, and food cravings and for people suffering with an eating disorder. It is for anyone who wants to stop eating because of stress or boredom. If you feel guilty about your eating or ashamed of your body, and if you want to lose weight and keep it off and still love your food, this audiobook is for you.

©2019 Vera Tarman (P)2019 Post Hypnotic Press Inc.

Eileen

Very helpful in understanding my addiction and what I can do to bring myself into good health.

great reminder

i believe it's a solid reinforcement of what I already knew but needed the reminder.

Well told. Easy to consume

Well told. Easy to consume and insightful. Many ah ha moments. Supporting info very useful.

Hard Truth Here

I have lived this reality and suggest Bright Lines Eating as the most cost-effective way to recover.

Life Changing Book

This book is life changing. If you are in a mental place where you are ready to accept the author's recommendation of abstinence from trigger foods, it can change your life. The author thoroughly provides evidence, stories and personal experience to help readers address the root of their food issues. The message is honestly tough to hear - give up the "yummy" food FOREVER if you want to be freed from its shackles. I am two weeks in giving up sugar and flour and feel better all ready. Hopeful I can continue. One. Day. At. A. Time. Wonderful read if you are trying to get to the bottom of food issues, whether you are a severe addict, or someone mildly "hooked" like I am.

Great for anyone with any foods issues

I took my time reading this and definitely had to take breaks in between, I finished it between April 2020 and September 2020 because sometimes it's a lot it's overwhelming realizing you've had an issue. I believe that we can create new brain pathways and don't have to be victims of addiction, but this is still inside foot into the addiction I once had.

Informative and sobering (pun intended)

This book gives you a good understanding of what it means to be food addicted by highlighting multiple different scenarios of people suffering with it. It explains the similarities that food addiction has with other types of addictions and why all types of addiction are related and overlapping. It outlines the many different types of programs available to treat food addiction and explains why they rarely work to sustain sobriety (backed up by actual statistics). Then, finally, it offers up an alternative lifestyle option to achieve and maintain sobriety from food addiction in a no-nonsense, matter of fact, conclusion.

Honestly, it left me with the sad and depressing realization that the opiate addiction that I thought I had overcome many years ago had merely morphed into an equally, if not more daunting, food addiction. Trading one big hurdle for another big hurdle… it’s a pretty hard pill to a willow. I guess I’ll go have a good cry, then try and figure out what happens next.

Don’t get me wrong, this was a good read, but be forewarned, the truth isn’t easy, but you are not alone.

okay to a point.

I agree with the author on virtually everything pertaining to addiction. However, the choices of foods to eliminate are extensive enough.

awesome read🙂

i loved all the examples and stories she had. It gave amazing insight. Will for sure inspire you to fight the food addiction.

An eye opening book

The author really addresses food addiction like no other author does. This is a great jumpstart for anyone wanting to learn and gain knowledge and insight about the topic, and it even contains actions to take in order to start the path to a better and a healthier life.