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Six million Americans are afflicted with undiagnosed diabetes. These walking time bombs don't even comprehend they've got a serious disease until it causes severe physical harm. Since a staggering ninety percent of diabetics are overweight, we can connect the syndrome and fascination with certain foods.
According to Kay Shepherd, a pioneer in the topic of food addiction, there is a biochemical situation in the body that creates a physiological longing for certain foods. For the most part these are simple carbohydrates, sweeteners, fats and processed foods. These foods appear to have an effect on the same addictive brain pathways as alcohol and drugs.
Take a look at what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association classifies as an addiction and see if it applies to the use of food:
* Tolerance: The user needs ever-increasing amounts of the substance over time to get
the same outcome
* Withdrawal: If the stuff is stopped there are physical and or mental symptoms.
* Inadvertent overuse of the stuff.
* Persistent attempts to have power over, cut back, or discontinue the use of the substance have been
unsuccessful.
* Preoccupation with the substance: Rituals in obtaining, using, and recovering from the
use of it.
* Reduced communal, working or recreational activities in order to “use”.
* Continued use of substance despite recurrent physical or mental problems from it
What part of this do we not comprehend about food and its misuse? In spite of dire physical consequences, many futile diets, the disgrace and guilt associated with over-eating behavior, the preoccupation with food continues.
What are reasonable solutions that work?
Here is what NEEDS to take place in order to reverse the effects of diabetes and obesity:
* Reach and maintain reasonable body weight
* Make wise food choices.
* Reduce sodium and alcohol intake.
* Be physically active every day.
I only have to glance around me to see that doing these 4 things is not effortless or obesity would not be our number one public health issue. If this were effortless obese individuals would be doing these things and they would lose weight.
Since good fitness is not happening in numerous people’s lives, we have to be aware of the causal problems in order to understand their powerlessness over dangerous behaviors. Here is the mental health problem full blown!
If we know something is destructive, why continue to do it? Ask any of us who have tried to stop smoking, keep on a diet, break our dependence to soft drinks, caffeine, or other behaviors or substances. When a behavior is chronic it requires more than an effort to keep under control.
Here are a few suggestions on how to get started:
* Educate yourself about the problem and the solution.
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* Make a pledge to yourself. In other words, Make your mind up to change.
* Set a day to get started. Notice I said get started.
>>In other terminology to start taking some action.
In my case, as soon as I finally made a decision to let go of my nicotine addiction l knew better than to assume I could just get up one day and quit! So I prepared a plan. I bought a couple of stop smoking books and I talked to friends about how to locate other individuals who had quit that I could speak to regarding how they did it.
A a sure way to failure when you're learning to handle any out of control actions is to believe you can get up and quit doing it without any preparation of the psyche. We need only to remember the many “Monday morning diets” to recognize this is true. Think ahead of what might cause you to fail so you are ready.
* Find a support group specific to your dilemma. AA is for drinking, there's EA (eaters anonymous) for over eating, I went to smokers anonymous. There is much to learn from a twelve step model such as AA. One of their great sayings is “I get drunk, we stay sober”. By no means try and battle an obsession alone. You are likely to be unsuccessful if you have the “I can do this by myself. I don’t need anyone” stance.
* Grasp the big picture. Do not get hung up on the day by day number on the scale. It will discourage you. The big picture is about reclaiming your body and being healthy. Stay focused on the genuine objective.
* Get therapy to work all the way through the reasons you eat in the first place and to discover the art of loving yourself … yes and that includes your body!
* More than all, know ahead of time that you will revert. Be ready to not slide totally back into your old behavior by beating yourself up. Instead use the event to discover what you need to do next.
Though everyone who has ever battled an obsession can relate to eating as one, we initially have to label it what it is before we can solve it. Understanding it really isn’t merely about the food is a primary step.
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