To get rid of food addiction, you need to understand the true causes of its occurrence. A psychologist or psychotherapist can help with this, but understanding the problem on the part of the patient is also important.
If you imagine a portrait of a person suffering from food addiction, then the picture will be depressing. Most often this is loneliness and the absence of any hobbies, when the only joy in life is the satisfaction of hunger. Food is a "friend", a consolation, the most accessible way of possible joy.
Such people are unable to resist even the most insignificant experience, which seems to be much more global than it really is. In the end, when it becomes necessary to get rid of the dependence of rewarding yourself with something tasty for the next stress, the body responds with a protest.
Where does the violation of taste come from?
Realizing that treatment is necessary, you need to understand the true reason for what is happening, which in the majority of patients who seek help, should be sought in deep childhood. It is not uncommon for responsible parents to try, at the cost of incredible efforts, to feed their beloved child at all costs, and triumph if almost an adult portion is eaten to the end.
How does the child feel? It is unlikely that he enjoys the process of eating and feels the taste and aroma of the portion lovingly prepared by his mother. At this moment, he absorbs, choking with a large volume of pieces or spoons, without feeling the taste.
If this action takes place day after day, then soon huge portions become commonplace. The child eats at dinner much more several times than he needs, regardless of the physiological feeling of hunger and taste. Medicine calls this condition "oral frigidity."
Another standard situation in the family, when a good appetite and a completely eaten portion for the sake of a mother or grandmother, become the cause of praise and general joy, belongs to similar costs of upbringing. The child feels almost like a winner and is also glad that he is doing well today.
But if you just refuse or not eat enough, then insults, reproaches and other forms of discontent are inevitable. Mom sometimes takes this as a personal insult that her work at the stove was unclaimed. Thus, the child develops a guilt complex that can only be redeemed by eating the next portion.
The habit of "seizing" troubles
Both the first and second examples automatically lead to a violation of taste sensations and a lack of control over the amount of food eaten. The first step in treatment is to restore the sensitivity of the taste buds and the ability to distinguish the required amount of serving.
Among people with food addiction, the majority are prone to anxiety and depression, which are easily "treated" through food. There were some troubles at work, on the way we bought a cake and ate it at once. I became sad from another household quarrel with my spouse - buns came to the rescue. At first glance, it seems that the problem has receded, but in fact, "seizing" it, a person only aggravates the habit.
This is akin to another widespread addiction - alcoholic, when any trouble is "drowned" in beer, wine, and then in something stronger. To get rid of the addiction of excessive food consumption once and for all, you need to find another way to deal with stress. Which one - it will depend on the cause of the overwhelming feeling of anxiety, the sources of which are many. After all, different people have different feelings and emotions.
