How I Combatted My Food Addiction
For the first time in my adult life, I have a healthy relationship with food.
I’ve never been underweight, overweight or undertaken a calorie-restricting diet. I’ve certainly never had a diagnosed eating disorder. Ask any of my friends and family and they’d probably tell you that I’m a normal girl with a healthy appetite.
It’s the story the media likes to tell. If you’re thin and starving yourself, you have a problem. If you’re fat and eating too much, you have a problem. But if you’re an average weight and eating in a sporadic, unintuitive and mood-dependent way? Perfect! You’re living your best life by enjoying all the good food the world has to offer. Go eat those cakes, because life is too short!
It’s a convenient narrative for Big Food.
Yet the older I get, and the better I’ve become at doing this thing called ‘eating when you’re hungry and stopping when you’re full’, the more I look at my past eating habits with alarm.
I’d binge on anything and everything when I knew nobody could see me. I’d think about food constantly every day. When I couldn’t be in control of my eating, it caused me a lot of stress. My life revolved around food. I was addicted.
