Below you will find a list of discussions in the Comfort Eating and Drinking and Food Addiction forum at the Live Your Optimal Life to Heal Your Ailments Forum. As opposed to eating when hungry and drinking when thirsty. This is also called compulsive overeating, emotional or comfort eating and binging eating disorder and is characterized by an obsessive/uncontrollable relationship with food. The reasons for food addiction is generally related to trying to cope with emotional and psychological states such as stress, unhappiness, depression, low self-image or frustration by eating. This addiction is characterised by frequent episodes of secret and uncontrolled eating, whilst the person consumes large quantities of food, whilst experiencing a sense of feeling out of control. The emotions generally experienced after such an eating bout are feelings of guilt and depression. A person suffering from food addition will typically eat when they are not hungry. The obsession with food, the secret eating and the fantasies of eating takes up an excessive amount of time in their daily lives. Compulsive overeating can lead to medical conditions such as excessive weight gain, obesity, heart disease, cholesterol problems, diabetes, major depression, high blood pressure and sleep deprivation. It could also include diabetes, kidney disease, arthritis, and a higher risk of having a stroke.
As opposed to eating when hungry and drinking when thirsty. This is also called compulsive overeating, emotional or comfort eating and binging eating disorder and is characterized by an obsessive/uncontrollable relationship with food. The reasons for food addiction is generally related to trying to cope with emotional and psychological states such as stress, unhappiness, depression, low self-image or frustration by eating. This addiction is characterised by frequent episodes of secret and uncontrolled eating, whilst the person consumes large quantities of food, whilst experiencing a sense of feeling out of control. The emotions generally experienced after such an eating bout are feelings of guilt and depression. A person suffering from food addition will typically eat when they are not hungry. The obsession with food, the secret eating and the fantasies of eating takes up an excessive amount of time in their daily lives. Compulsive overeating can lead to medical conditions such as excessive weight gain, obesity, heart disease, cholesterol problems, diabetes, major depression, high blood pressure and sleep deprivation. It could also include diabetes, kidney disease, arthritis, and a higher risk of having a stroke.