Addicted to alcohol: Stop drinking. You can’t control an addiction so you have to completely stop.
Addicted to cigarettes: Stop smoking. You can’t control an addiction so you have to completely stop.
Addicted to crack: Stop smoking crack. You can’t control an addiction so you have to completely stop.
Addicted to food: Must be your fault for being weak-willed. Just don’t consume so much of that thing that you’re addicted to. You can control your addiction. Just stop being a loser…
The literal solution to every addiction is stop it, cold turkey. One Day At A Time. But you can’t stop eating food.
The thing with modern food is that we’re addicted to sugar (all processed crap has lots, plymus sodas etc.). It’s literally a drug and so bad for us the body tried to use it up ASAP (storing any fat in the meantime) when we eat it.
When you eat too much sugar the body will use only sugar to function, and not eating sugar feels instantly like withdrawal/hunger.
So you can quit that crap cold turkey (you need to let go of slow sugars too like pasta, rice, potatoes etc at least until you get over it/found your comfort weight).
It is hard but it is definitely easier than alcohol or cigarette addiction, at least IMO 🤷🏼♀️
People that tell people to go cold turkey. Are just as clueless about addiction as the people they’re trying to convince. The greatest conquest of my life was quitting cigarettes. It took a process.
It really depends on the person and the drug. People can and do quit cigarettes cold turkey and succeed relatively often. Harder drugs like benzos or opiates have a much smaller percentage who do that, and even then most dont do it by choice.
Some people can quit cold turkey, most can’t. Assume you’re part of the majority and take away whatever emotional or social attachment you have to your addiction and gradually reduce whatever it is until it’s completely under control.
The literal solution to every addiction is stop it, cold turkey.
Except alcohol, stopping cold turkey after prolonged heavy drinking can kill you
Alcohol and benzos.
The literal solution to every addiction is stop it, cold turkey. One Day At A Time But you can’t stop eating food.
There’s no such thing in the DSM as “food addiction” though. You’re trivialising addiction
Hello,
While food addiction is not described in the DSM V, binge eating is described as eating until uncomfortably full, eating large ammounts of food when not physically hungry, eating more rapidly than normal, eating alone due to embarassment over consumption, and/or feeling disgusted, depressed or guilty with oneself during or after an episode. There is also a carve out for Other Specified Eating and Feeding Disorder that might interest you. While these behaviors are not described as addictions, they often require professional intervention to meaningfully change. Describing them as addictions does not trivialize addiction, but rather indicates how uncontrollable and pathological they can be for some individuals.
Cheers!
explain please. I dont see it.
